Senior Occupational Therapist | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 06 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 December 2025 |
| Location: | Mansfield, NG18 5QJ |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7522733/214-CSTO-7522733 |
Summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated, Senior Occupational Therapist to work within the inpatient therapy team at Mansfield Community Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside specialist dedicated clinicians to provide high quality care and rehabilitation for our inpatients, with a diverse profile of need and conditions, through seamless multidisciplinary and partnership working.
The successful applicant must be able to demonstrate a passion for person centred care and rehabilitation with significant experience and skill in order to effectively assess, treat and facilitate discharge of patients with often complex needs.
You will need to be enthusiastic, highly motivated and be able to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills with an ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
All applications from overseas welcome but relevant professional registration is required.
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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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.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025
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