Job summary
Advance Your Occupational Therapy Career at Sherwood Forest Hospitals!
Are you passionate about developing the future of Occupational Therapy? We're looking for a dedicated and dynamic OT professional to join the Therapy Management Team at Kings Mill Hospital.
In this leadership role, you'll play a key part in shaping the OT workforce by:? Collaborating with universities and coordinating student placements? Supporting and mentoring newly qualified OTs? Driving innovation and service development across the OT department.
You'll have the opportunity to design and deliver high-quality training programs that enhance clinical effectiveness, foster a culture of learning, and elevate patient care standards.
Additionally, you will:? Oversee the Band 5 rotation, ensuring diverse learning experiences across specialties? Guide newly qualified OTs through their preceptorship period? Act as the Practice Placement Coordinator, supporting senior OTs in supervising students
If you're ready to inspire, lead, and make a real impact on the future of Occupational Therapy at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document
About us
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation.
We would love you to join us.
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
Desirable
- Health and Social Care Policy
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
Desirable
- NVQ assessor award
- Leadership training award
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
Desirable
- Change processes
- Research
- Facilitation of interprofessional learning
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible hours of working when required
- Ability to travel between Kings Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital
Desirable
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
Desirable
- Health and Social Care Policy
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
Desirable
- NVQ assessor award
- Leadership training award
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
Desirable
- Change processes
- Research
- Facilitation of interprofessional learning
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible hours of working when required
- Ability to travel between Kings Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital
Desirable
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
