Band 6 Specialty Occupational Therapist - Acute Stroke Rehabilitation

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our well-established Acute Stroke Occupational Therapy Service.

The Acute Stroke Unit (ASU) at the John Radcliffe Hospital, is a 22-bed unit and works as a cohesive multiprofessional team (MDT), delivering hyper-acute and acute services to stroke survivors to maximise recovery, patient experience and quality of life.The ASU MDT consistently score grade A for quality outcomes in SSNAP and provide services over a seven-day period. Therapy and rehabilitation services are critical to the quality and operational performance of the stroke clinical service unit, as well as facilitating excellent service user outcomes and experience.

This is an ideal opportunity for those with Band 5 level experience to progress working in the speciality of neurological rehabilitation or those who are already working as a Band 6 seeking to gain more specialist experience.

As part of a MDT, you will manage a varied caseload and plan and undertake specialist Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions.

We support staff to protect a proportion of their time for CPD, clinical audit, quality improvement and service development projects. This role provides a great opportunity to develop both clinical and leadership skills.

We are seeking Occupational Therapists who are enthusiastic, passionate, and great communicators. We commit to provide learning and development opportunities and support you with regular supervision, peer support and great teamwork.

Main duties of the job

To act as an autonomous practitioner, providing therapeutic interventions of the highest standard, in alignment with national and professional guidelines, working across a range of disciplines and settings, including (but not limited to):

To provide specialist Occupational Therapy (OT) assessment, treatment and discharge planning to patients with a stroke diagnosis as an autonomous practitioner.

To work effectively with the wider interdisciplinary team (IDT).

To clinically supervise junior OT's, assistants, and students.

To assist the Team Lead OT in the provision, monitoring and on-going development of the service to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the service users and responds to government and trust initiatives.

To actively participate in quality improvement, clinical audit and research projects.

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.