Job overview
We are excited to be recruiting an Occupational Therapist Team Lead on the Early Supported Project (stroke). If you are a Band OT looking to gain more leadership experience, or a Band looking to advance your career, we would love to hear from you, apply now!
This post offers the ability to advance knowledge and skills in stroke rehabilitation while working with a great MDT. You will also lead the team of OTs and support the Therapy Assistants, with support from your fellow Multi-Disciplinary Team Lead.
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the best teaching hospitals in the UK and offers the successful candidate the opportunity to gain valuable training so that they can not only advance their careers but join a team that offers the very best in care.
Main duties of the job
• To deploy advanced knowledge, skills and experience to effectively lead the occupational therapy acute stroke rehabilitation team across days a week.
• Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation as part of a multidisciplinary acute stroke rehabilitation team.
• Provide team leadership, supervision and appraisal to occupational therapists, therapy assistants and students.
• Maintain a clinical caseload of highly complex patients as an autonomous practitioner.
• Contribute to team leadership, service development, and quality assurance in acute stroke rehabilitation services.
• Devise and oversee the delivery of service improvement projects seeking advances in therapeutic and rehabilitative practice.
• To engage and participate in the operational, governance and research activities of the Therapies clinical service unit.
Working for our organisation
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 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 .