Specialty Occupational Therapist

3 weeks ago


Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Hospitals Full time

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking, enthusiastic experienced Band or band Occupational Therapist with a specialist interest in surgery to develop clinical services within our supportive and friendly Physio and Occupational therapy team. The role offers a broad range of experience across surgery, gastroenterology, and vascular with a focus upon emergency surgery.

With an expanding caseload and growing opportunities for development you will need to advance local service standards based on good working knowledge of National Standards where they exist and on best evidence You will need to have high levels of professionalism and strong communication skills to work effectively in this role building links with the surgical CSU’s senior AHP, nursing and medical leads.

Housing one of the largest standalone emergency surgery units in the country working with the Clinical lead and B OT/PT team leads you will be overseeing the design and delivery of an effective and clinically relevant training programme to support staff development. Refining patient pathways, identifying unmet need, and supporting staff to grow. You will be expected to encourage staff to participate in CPD, audit, service development , supervision and teaching of junior staff including students and the wider MDT.

Main duties of the job To deliver high quality evidence-based Occupational therapy to those presenting with acute and chronic complex surgical and vascular conditions. To support the VES Occupational therapy team fostering a culture and approach that is person-centred and progressive. To effectively guide, supervise and develop Occupational Therapists, therapy assistants, and students within the team. To conduct and supervise projects that seek to improve the quality and experience of clinical services offered by the team. In their absence to deputise for the clinical lead therapist alongside the band OT & PT team leads to effectively support strategic, governance, and operational functions of the service and department. To contribute to and participate in development of the senior management team. To work collaboratively with the clinical and managerial leaders within the OUH.  To undertake clinical duties across days a week as per seven-day service requirements. 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. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .



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