Band 3 Therapy Assistant Stroke

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Band 3 Therapy Assistant to join our Therapy Team on the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual, keen to learn or gain experience in therapy, to join a supportive and friendly team. The successful candidate will be an important member of the inpatient team, working alongside qualified Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists to provide appropriate and timely interventions and to help in the assistance and management of clinical caseloads on the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit.,

• To work as a member the Stroke Specialist MDT
• To assist the therapy staff with a range of duties
• To provide holistic interventions for patients, often without direct supervision, working to treatment plans, protocols and accountable at all times to a registered practitioner
• To support patient centred rehabilitation in order to facilitate timely, safe transfer of care, reflecting individual choice and maximising individual's independence
• To accurately record patient information
• To accurately input data onto IT systems
  
  The successful candidate must demonstrate effective communication skills and be passionate about working within a multi-disciplinary team. They should be able to demonstrate an adaptable approach to their clinical and non-clinical duties due to the busy and changing demands of an acute hospital setting.
  
  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.