Job summary
Are you looking to broaden your Occupational Therapy skills through a practice development secondment at Sherwood Forest Hospitals?
The successful candidate will work within the Kings Mill Hospital Therapy management team to lead the development of the OT workforce. This will include liaising with universities and arranging student placements, supporting the newly qualified OT workforce, and facilitating the service development of OT at SFH.
To facilitate ongoing personal, professional, and practice development through the design and delivery of high-quality training, education, and development programs that support the delivery of high-quality, clinically effective healthcare.
To provide leadership, advice, and support, fostering a learning culture that values high-quality patient care.
To manage the band 5 rotation (including the preceptorship period), ensuring a breadth of experience across various specialties and opportunities for personal and professional development.
Fulfil the role of practice placement coordinator, ensuring that senior occupational therapists supervise students on behalf of the occupational therapy service.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document
About us
In May 2020,King's Mill Hospital, where 90% of our services are based, was rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission and is the only Outstanding hospital in the East Midlands.Newark HospitalandMansfield Community Hospitalare both rated Good and all 15 of our services are rated Good for Safety with five Outstanding services.
Safe, patient centred care is delivered by well supported people and in 2018 and 2019 colleagues at Sherwood rated us the best Acute Trust in the Midlands. In 2019, in the Freedom to Speak Up Index, we were the top rated Acute Trust in the East Midlands.
We provide outstanding healthcare from modern buildings and increasingly across the community to 500,000 people in Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. We work with 5,000 colleagues in our three hospitals - King's Mill, Newark and Mansfield Community and we have well established relationships with partners in health and social care through the Mid Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership.
We are a committed member of theNottingham and Nottinghamshire Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP), which is now moving to an Integrated Care System (ICS). In this system, NHS organisations, along with local councils and other partners take collective responsibility for all of our resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health of the population they serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Good understanding of current professional issues and current occupational therapy theory, practice and research
- A substantial, broad clinical knowledge around the core medical, surgical and orthopaedic conditions in the 'acute' environment of a District General Hospital, and skilled in applying occupational therapy frameworks
- Modernisation Agenda for the NHS re new ways of working
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc/diploma in occupational therapy
- Practice placement educator/APPLE accredited
- Registered with the HPC
- Member of Professional body
- Post registration qualification or training relevant to specialty
- Supervision skills course
Further Training
Essential
- ECDL or part ECDL, particularly the management of spreadsheets and/or databases and PowerPoint
- Specialty specific short courses (add as required)
- NVQ assessor
- Leadership training
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post graduate clinical experience, most recently working as a senior therapist which includes leadership and management experience
- Proven practical experience teaching small groups and multi-professional teams
- Can lead change and is able to demonstrate implementation of new ways of working within the team
- Formal teaching to large groups within and outside the service
- Proven experience of being an appraissor and supervisor of clinical staff
- Recruitment and selection of staff
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible hours of working when required
- Ability to travel between Kings Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Good understanding of current professional issues and current occupational therapy theory, practice and research
- A substantial, broad clinical knowledge around the core medical, surgical and orthopaedic conditions in the 'acute' environment of a District General Hospital, and skilled in applying occupational therapy frameworks
- Modernisation Agenda for the NHS re new ways of working
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc/diploma in occupational therapy
- Practice placement educator/APPLE accredited
- Registered with the HPC
- Member of Professional body
- Post registration qualification or training relevant to specialty
- Supervision skills course
Further Training
Essential
- ECDL or part ECDL, particularly the management of spreadsheets and/or databases and PowerPoint
- Specialty specific short courses (add as required)
- NVQ assessor
- Leadership training
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post graduate clinical experience, most recently working as a senior therapist which includes leadership and management experience
- Proven practical experience teaching small groups and multi-professional teams
- Can lead change and is able to demonstrate implementation of new ways of working within the team
- Formal teaching to large groups within and outside the service
- Proven experience of being an appraissor and supervisor of clinical staff
- Recruitment and selection of staff
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible hours of working when required
- Ability to travel between Kings Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
