Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist for Stroke
| Posting date: | 26 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 September 2025 |
| Location: | Abingdon |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75731770 |
Summary
The Oxfordshire Stroke Rehabilitation Unit is a 20-bed inpatient unit based on the Abingdon Community Hospital site with access to a therapy gym, kitchen and garden. We provide short term rehabilitation for people post stroke and take a dynamic and innovative approach to evidence-based practice and service development.
As part of the role, you will work alongside a specialist multidisciplinary team and you will co lead in the management of the therapy team on OSRU.
The Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist (OT) is a highly skilled clinician who will provide clinical leadership and supervision for the OT team. The practitioner will aspire to implement national clinical guidelines. Strong clinical reasoning and decision making skills are essential skills. Clinical work is a core component of this post, making this a great opportunity for someone who wants to take the next step into a leadership role, whilst retaining clinical duties.
Main duties of the job-
Deliver highly specialist rehabilitative care in line with HCPC, RCOT, National Stroke Guidelines, and Oxford Health NHS FT governance standards.
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Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to provide holistic, patient-centred rehabilitation, including specialist neurological assessment and complex discharge planning.
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Lead service evaluation and improvement through clinical audits (including SSNAP), outcome measurement, and research participation.
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Act as a key liaison across ward, community, and acute services to ensure smooth patient flow and effective onward care.
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Manage and support the Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy workforce, and deliver training for internal and external audiences.
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
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Deliver expert, patient-centred stroke rehabilitation in line with HCPC, RCOT, and National Stroke Guidelines.
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Undertake complex neurological assessments and create evidence-based rehabilitation plans.
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Lead and inspire the therapy team, promoting excellence and professional development.
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Drive service quality through outcome measurement, data monitoring, and continuous improvement.
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Provide specialist input for complex discharge planning to optimise patient outcomes.
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria- Registered Occupational Therapist (Diploma or Degree) - registered with the HCPC
- Evidence of specialist training in stroke or neurosciences at a Master’s level, or working towards this, or equivalent knowledge/experience
- Demonstration of personal and professional development, relevant to stroke.
- Evidence of delivering teaching or training
- Post-graduate Clinical/ Management qualification
- Experience presenting service improvement work at local and national forums
- Up to date knowledge of relevant National Guidelines for the Stroke
- Evidence of up-to-date knowledge of professional and specialist issues
- RCOT membership
- Completed STARS Training
- Extensive experience in stroke specialist services or a related neurological field
- Extensive experience working as part of a Multi - disciplinary team
- Confident and experienced in discharge planning
- Varied clinical NHS experience
- Varied clinical background including community hospitals
- Experience managing complex caseloads
- Have an understanding of community hospitals and system partners
- Experience supervising qualified and non qualified staff
- Experience in staff appraisal and individualised development, including PDR process
- Has completed a Leadership training module
Stroke Specialist OT JD & person Spec (PDF, 352.4KB)
Stroke specialist OT JD & Person Spec (PDF, 203.6KB)
Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)
Recruiter Contact DetailsName: Becks Holder
Title: AHP Lead Community Hospitals
Email: rebecca.holder@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone: 07823 327206