# Specialist Occupational Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-occupational-therapist/f223f23c-3ff0-4ac1-bfcf-3d0118aaf4ae - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-occupational-therapist/f223f23c-3ff0-4ac1-bfcf-3d0118aaf4ae.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Sheffield - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa/ pro rata for part time staff - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-18T23:02:20.546Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Sheffield/Sheffield_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapy/Occupational_Therapy-v7960701 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7960701?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a qualified NHS Occupational Therapist looking for your next career step? Want to enhance your experience across different patients, care settings and develop as a clinical leader in one of the UK’s largest hospital Trusts? We have a fantastic opportunity for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to work within our Acute Medicine Therapy team based across the Northern General Hospital. As a Specialist Occupational Therapist you will be working alongside a team of other, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and support staff, providing early assessment, intervention and informing discharge utilising their clinical reasoning skills for a complex and diverse case-mix of patients. This will include cognitive assessment, and functional assessment amongst other core occupational therapy skills. Covering a variety of different wards across the hospitals, this is great chance to work with a wide range of patients and develop your experience of different specialties, including Gastroenterology, Diabetes and Renal ### Main duties of the job Throughout your time you’ll have the guidance and supervision of our clinical specialists and wider team, to offer you support, help you manage your caseload and complex patients, and help develop your specific area of interest and skills to further your career. We also offer excellent in-service training programs to support staff to continue with postgraduate training and developing clinical and leadership skills, including developing and delivering education, supervision, mentorship, and service developments. There’s also the chance to get involved in service improvement and research projects, new innovations and more. We’re also proud to be a friendly, caring, and supportive team, who help each other to manage caseloads, deliver the best for our patients, and enjoy catching up over a social lunch, and the odd bake-off. We’re looking for someone who enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team to deliver the best possible care for patients, has excellent communication skills, and ideally has post-registration experience within an acute setting. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post. When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria. ## Job Details Are you a qualified NHS Occupational Therapist looking for your next career step? Want to enhance your experience across different patients, care settings and develop as a clinical leader in one of the UK’s largest hospital Trusts? We have a fantastic opportunity for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to work within our Acute Medicine Therapy team based across the Northern General Hospital. As a Specialist Occupational Therapist you will be working alongside a team of other, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and support staff, providing early assessment, intervention and informing discharge utilising their clinical reasoning skills for a complex and diverse case-mix of patients. This will include cognitive assessment, and functional assessment amongst other core occupational therapy skills. Covering a variety of different wards across the hospitals, this is great chance to work with a wide range of patients and develop your experience of different specialties, including Gastroenterology, Diabetes and Renal ## Job Description Throughout your time you’ll have the guidance and supervision of our clinical specialists and wider team, to offer you support, help you manage your caseload and complex patients, and help develop your specific area of interest and skills to further your career. We also offer excellent in-service training programs to support staff to continue with postgraduate training and developing clinical and leadership skills, including developing and delivering education, supervision, mentorship, and service developments. There’s also the chance to get involved in service improvement and research projects, new innovations and more. We’re also proud to be a friendly, caring, and supportive team, who help each other to manage caseloads, deliver the best for our patients, and enjoy catching up over a social lunch, and the odd bake-off. We’re looking for someone who enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team to deliver the best possible care for patients, has excellent communication skills, and ideally has post-registration experience within an acute setting. ## Responsibilities Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post. When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Post-registration experience of sufficient to acquire core competencies in Occupational Therapy practice for medical, surgical and neurological conditions and the knowledge and skill to manage a complex specialist caseload in the chosen field - Post-registration NHS experience as an Occupational Therapist **Desirable** - Clinical Governance or Health & Safety, link worker - Member of special Interest Group - Fieldwork educators Course - Clinical Effectiveness course/Project ### Other Factors **Essential** - Flexible and reliable approach to working practices - Positive , proactive attitude to patient care and teamwork **Desirable** - Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes. ### Qualifications **Essential** - BSc in Occupational Therapy or equivalent - Current HCPC registration - Short Specialist post-registration training programmes ### Further Training **Essential** - Evidence of continuous personal & professional development - Good post-registration theoretical and practical knowledge of therapy practice in chosen field **Desirable** - Evidence-Based Practice - Clinical Governance ### Special Skills/apptitudes **Essential** - Competency in occupational therapy clinical reasoning, processes & practices - Excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills - Able to maintain confidentiality - Able to act on own initiative, organise and prioritise work and manage multiple tasks - Able to maintain accurate written records & statistics - Calm approach to changing work situations - Able to teach and motivate others **Desirable** - Understanding of therapy in an acute hospital - IT literate - Understanding of stress and ability to help others cope under pressure ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 2.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2420) - [information for candidates (pdf, 496.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2162) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 208.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10241895) - [applicants - how we use your information (pdf, 87.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2165) - [getting to work at sheffield teaching hospitals (pdf, 305.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2163) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 124.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2211) - [a guide to using artificial intelligence and with your personal statement (pdf, 163.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2894) - [candidate application best practice guide - please read before completing your application (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2161) ## 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.