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Occupational Therapist - Early Supported Discharge Service

Job details
Posting date: 24 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 24 May 2024
Location: Oxford, OX3 7HE
Company: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6149340/321-MRC-6149340-B6

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Summary

A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Band 6 OT Early Supported Discharge (ESD) for Stroke Service.

The ESD for stroke team is dedicated to helping stroke patients return home sooner by providing high quality, specialist stroke rehabilitation in the home environment to achieve our patient's individual goals.

We are looking for a professional, caring and compassionate occupational therapist to provide specialist stroke rehabilitation in patients homes.

You will have experience of delivering evidence based stroke rehabilitation and are looking to develop your career.

You are motivated, flexible and will work autonomously; managing your own caseload with the support of an experienced multi-disciplinary team who will guide your professional development.

The role involves driving within the county of Oxfordshire, and access to a car is essential. Please state this in your application.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Sarah King (Occupational Therapy Team lead in ESD) on 07500 793062 for an informal conversation about the role.




• To support and deliver specialist assessment, planning and rehabilitation to a complex clinical caseload of patients who have had a stroke
• To be a stroke specialist resource for clinical staff to support the assessment, treatment planning and clinical interventions for the patient group
• To be involved with the collection and analysis of data to demonstrate inputs, efficacy and outcomes
• To maintain multi-disciplinary clinical notes that meet Trust and professional standards
• To be involved in weekly multi-disciplinary meeting discussions in relation to patients within the stroke pathway
• To contribute to the clinical research agenda of the stroke pathway
• To support all members of the therapy team and the assurance of competence within the MDT
• To work in partnership with the community care services to ensure the competence of all staff working with stroke survivors
• To work with other colleagues, as the occasion arises, in supporting the management and development of the Oxfordshire stroke pathway
• To work flexibly across the pathway to ensure that therapy resource maps to patient need
• To support the development, along with the other senior staff within the pathway, the profile of ESD with all relevant GP practices







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. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk



Our core values are excellence, compassion, respect, delivery, learning and improvement.


Collaboration and partnership are also central to our approach in delivering our fundamental activities of patient care teaching and research.

These values determine the Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's vision to be:

"At the heart of a sustainable and outstanding, innovative, academic health science system, working in partnership and through networks locally, nationally and internationally to deliver and develop excellence and value in patient care, teaching and research within a culture of compassion and integrity.

This vision is underpinned by the Trust's founding partnership with the University of Oxford."

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Please state in your application that you are a car driver, with access to your own vehicle for work, as these are essential requirements for this role.

Please see the attached job descriptions and person specifications for more information about the role.




This advert closes on Sunday 12 May 2024

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