Specialist Occupational Therapist

at  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for Specialist Occupational Therapist to work in our innovative and rapidly expanding Cancer Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation service.
The successful candidate will join the clinical team of the Active Together service in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, delivering multimodal prehabilitation and rehabilitation to patients receiving cancer treatment. They will support to team in expanding the service to include additional tumour groups, and to continue to develop and improve the existing service.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of 18 months up to the end March 2026 due to the post being externally funded. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust’s legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the ongoing source of the external funding and the requirement for the post to be maintained.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.

To assess, plan and deliver Occupational Therapy interventions for patients undergoing cancer treatment and participating in the Active Together Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation programme, including fatigue management, well-being support and vocational rehabilitation in group or 1 to 1 settings.

• To support patients by promoting healthy living and behaviour change.
• To support, supervise and train assistants, students, less experienced staff and other Active Together team members within the service.
• To deputise for the B7 Clinical Lead when necessary.
• Adopt a personalised care approach to management of patients, including an understanding of behaviour change approaches and “what matters to you”.
• Contribute to the evaluation of the service against Key Performance Indicators for feedback to Yorkshire Cancer Research
• Contribute to the operational management and continuous improvement of Active Together Sheffield.
• Place the need to address health inequalities within Active Together as a priority in patient care and service development.
• To perform holistic assessments and use Active Together screening tools to identify physical, dietetic and psychological needs in patients and arrange appropriate onward care.

To contribute to the development of Active Together across South Yorkshire by being involved in service development and liaising with wider team member when required.
This roles sits within the Active Together Sheffield service.
Active Together is a prehabilitation and rehabilitation service supporting people following a cancer diagnosis with physical activity, nutrition, and wellbeing guidance. The service has been designed by Sheffield Hallam University who work in close collaboration with NHS teams to support the delivery and evaluation of the service.
The Active Together service launched in Sheffield in 2022 and this year will expand to new sites across South Yorkshire in Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster. Active Together South Yorkshire will provide equitable, multi-modal and personalised prehabilitation and rehabilitation support that meets the needs of patients across the region and generates evidence for a commissioned service. This is an exciting opportunity to develop and deliver prehabilitation and rehabilitation pathways and help thousands of patients across South Yorkshire.
Active Together is funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research, Yorkshire’s independent cancer charity, working so more people can live longer, healthier lives, free from cancer.
The successful candidate will work for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, one of the UK’s biggest providers of integrated hospital and community-based healthcare
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

Please refer the Job description for details