# Specialist Occupational Therapist – Adults > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-occupational-therapist-adults/99aa0835-fe88-43e7-a579-d1c120a23600 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-occupational-therapist-adults/99aa0835-fe88-43e7-a579-d1c120a23600.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Stafford - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 £39,959 - £48,117 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-22T13:11:46.973Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Burslem/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Specialised_Rehabilitation_Medicine/Specialised_Rehabilitation_Medicine-v8023208 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8023208?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Occupational Therapists within Broadfield Unit (Rehabilitation Medicine) deliver care and rehabilitation over a 5 day service model, with potential to expand to a 7 day model in the future.  The team focuses on ensuring the service users are supported physically, cognitively and emotionally within a biopsychosocial rehabilitation model using Occupational Therapy client centred practice.  Our service provides specialist inpatient neuro-rehabilitation with a catchment area that includes but not limited to Cheshire, Staffordshire, Telford, Shropshire and Wales. As a Specialist Occupational Therapist you will be working as part of a specialist inter-disciplinary team where you will need to work alongside all disciplines with a proactive approach to service users’ recovery, demonstrate excellent communication skills and embedding quality at its core.  Under the direction of an Advanced Occupational Therapist; you will be involved in the assessment, implementation and evaluation of SMART goals to ensure service users under your care are provided with a collaborative, effective and evidence based service to facilitate specialist rehabilitation. ### Main duties of the job - Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the role. - Demonstrate excellent communication skills and team working. - Be a Specialist Occupational Therapist and have a detailed professional and clinical knowledge. The post holder will be a specialist practitioner in a static post on the Broadfield unit. - Be responsible for a defined population of service users within the service area. - Be skilled in the assessment of complex/specialist care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages. - Be a key member of the MDT actively participating/supporting colleagues and chairing MDT meetings, case conference, goal planning and discharge planning meetings. - Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements. - Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems. - Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team management. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements. - Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems seeking innovation and service development as core elements to role. - Work with the Clinical Leads / Management undertaking delegated tasks in team management. - To undertake 7 day working / shift patterns within service specification as required across Trust sites including community working and lone working. - Access to own vehicle, UK driving licence and ability to travel across a wide geographical area. ## Job Details The Occupational Therapists within Broadfield Unit (Rehabilitation Medicine) deliver care and rehabilitation over a 5 day service model, with potential to expand to a 7 day model in the future.  The team focuses on ensuring the service users are supported physically, cognitively and emotionally within a biopsychosocial rehabilitation model using Occupational Therapy client centred practice.  Our service provides specialist inpatient neuro-rehabilitation with a catchment area that includes but not limited to Cheshire, Staffordshire, Telford, Shropshire and Wales. As a Specialist Occupational Therapist you will be working as part of a specialist inter-disciplinary team where you will need to work alongside all disciplines with a proactive approach to service users’ recovery, demonstrate excellent communication skills and embedding quality at its core.  Under the direction of an Advanced Occupational Therapist; you will be involved in the assessment, implementation and evaluation of SMART goals to ensure service users under your care are provided with a collaborative, effective and evidence based service to facilitate specialist rehabilitation. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - - Evidence of specialist clinical knowledge relevant to the post. - Understanding of National Clinical Guidelines, UKROC & specialised rehabilitation service drivers for service delivery / improvement - Understanding of Information Governance, Data Protection, HCPC /RCOT standards and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults/Children. Awareness of relevant NSF’s and NICE guidance. - - The necessary competences required to undertake this role would be provided (once ratified) as a separate document on appointment. They are derived from skills for health and aligned to national occupational standards. An element of these is given below: o Basic IT skills o Initiate, and participate in networks and discussion groups o Provide leadership in your area of responsibility o Establish a diagnosis of an individual’s health condition o Discharge and transfer individuals where appropriate o Enable other individuals to reflect on their own values, priorities, interests and effectiveness o Identify and evaluate opportunities for innovation and improvement **Desirable** - Knowledge of relevant Guidance, research and NICE guidance. Understanding of wider NHS agenda and its application to the local context ### Experience **Essential** - - Relevant NHS experience to the role including assessment and management of various conditions within the area of clinical speciality; Specialised Rehabilitation Medicine. - - Ability to manage time and caseload effectively. **Desirable** - - Experience of negotiation and conflict management in clinical situations. ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent. - - Registration with HCPC **Desirable** - - Modules at Masters level - Evidence of further clinical study - PDOC training ## Documents - [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957) - [b6 specialist occupational therapist (pdf, 592.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10309835) - [b6 specialist occupational therapist (pdf, 624.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10309834) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.