Job overview We are offering you an exciting opportunity to join our diverse and well-established Acute Stroke Occupational Therapy Service.The Acute Stroke Unit (ASU) located at the John Radcliffe Hospital, is a -bedded unit and works as a cohesive multiprofessional team (MDT), delivering hyper-acute and acute services to stroke survivors aiming to maximise recovery, patient experience and quality of life.
The ASU MDT consistently score grade A for quality outcomes in the national sentinel audit 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 level experience in several clinical areas looking to progress working in the speciality of neurological rehabilitation or those who are already working as a Band seeking to gain more experience in this speciality.We support every Band to protect a proportion of their time to development, both individually and as a service.
This includes CPD and leading on quality improvement projects, clinical audit and service development projects.
This role therefore provides a great opportunity to develop both clinical and leadership skills.You will develop leadership skills through supporting juniors, students, and unregistered staff.
Main duties of the job To act as an autonomous practitioner, providing therapuetic 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.
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 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.
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