Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist

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The closing date is 01 February 2026

Are you seeking a unique opportunity to enhance your clinical and interdisciplinary team working skills while advancing your career? If so, we have an exciting rotational position that can support your learning in various clinical areas.

This opportunity allows you to join our dynamic and evolving therapy teams at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust. The Band 6 rotation covers Health Care of the Older Person, Amputees, Orthopaedics, Medical wards, and Surgery wards. Regardless of your placement, you will be an integral part of the therapy team, helping to prevent patient admissions, maximizing their chances of staying at home through timely therapy interventions and treatments.

As a member of the broader therapy team, your responsibility is to provide a high‑standard specialist occupational therapy service with a primary focus on preventing hospital admissions, delivering prompt therapy treatments, and facilitating timely hospital discharges.

Apply now to join our team!

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

We are an award‑winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically‑led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as "outstanding" for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only "outstanding" NHS‑run hospital in the East Midlands.

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

• Flexible working, including 7 day working which will include late shifts.
• Ability to drive.

• Sound clinical knowledge of medical conditions and applied occupational therapy techniques.
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure.
• Ability to work as a team member as well as alone but with access to a more senior colleague.
• Knowledge of NHS procedures, policies and guidelines.
• Ability to formulate and develop specialised individual treatment programmes and to use clinical reasoning skills.

• BSc (Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
• Registration with HCPC.
• Membership of the College of Occupational Therapists.

• Attendance at relevant clinical postgraduate courses taught often at modular Masters level.
• APPLE accreditation training.

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

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro‑rate