Paediatric Orthopaedic Occupational Therapist

To provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment, treatment, management and evaluation for children and young people with complex orthopaedic and spinal needs. To provide input to in-patients undergoing orthopaedic and spinal surgery on the hospital wards and to provide assessment and input at the multi-professional pre-operative assessment clinics. The post involves working across 2 different sites, the Oxford Children's Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre., To provide input to in-patients undergoing orthopaedic and spinal surgery on the hospital wards and to provide assessment and input at the multi-professional pre-operative assessment clinics.

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.

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