# Senior Occupational Therapist (Urgent and Emergency Care Team)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Sutton In Ashfield
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Occupational Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible 7 day working pattern)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16T14:13:07.285Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/SuttoninAshfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Therapy_Services/Therapy_Services-v8045161
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8045161?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in urgent and emergency care?

You will work collaboratively with colleagues across urgent care pathways, helping patients access appropriate community services, intermediate care support, and external agencies, while also contributing to reducing hospital length of stay and improving patient outcomes.

Beyond your clinical responsibilities, you will be an integral part of the leadership and development of the service, supporting junior staff and helping to shape future improvements within the team.

If you're passionate about delivering high-quality patient-centred care in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you.

### Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Completion of postgraduate junior rotation to include a rotation in medicine
- Broad understanding of occupational therapy process and frameworks.
- Experience of audit and service review
- Experience of supervising other staff and/or students
- NHS experience including knowledge of policies and procedures

**Desirable**

- Evidence of contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, assistants and students

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- BSc (Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
- Registration with HCPC

**Desirable**

- Membership of the College of Occupational Therapists

### Further Training

**Essential**

- Attendance at relevant clinical post graduate courses taught often at modular Masters level
- Practice Placement Educators training

**Desirable**

- APPLE Accreditation training

### Knowledge Requirements

**Essential**

- Sound Clinical knowledge of medical conditions and applied occupational therapy techniques
- Ability to prioritise & work under pressure
- Delegation skills
- Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
- Ability to work as a team member as well as alone but with access to more senior colleague
- IT skills
- Knowledge of NHS procedures, policies and guidelines
- Ability to formulate and develop specialised individual treatment programmes and ability in using clinical reasoning skills

### Contractual Requirements

**Essential**

- Flexible working, including 7 day working which will include late shifts

**Desirable**

- Ability to drive

## Documents

- [job decription (pdf, 312.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10333864)
- [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702)
- [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448)
- [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938)
- [person spec in job description (pdf, 312.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10333865)
- [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492)

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