Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist

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. Currently, the Band 6 rotation encompasses 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 prevent patient admissions to the hospital and maximizing their chances of staying at home through timely therapy interventions and treatments.

As a member of the broader therapy team, your responsibility will be 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 Kings Mill Hospital as the only outstanding NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.