Occupational Therapy Team Lead - Acute Neurosciences

NHS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Oxford is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist Team Lead for their Acute Neurosciences Therapy team. The role involves providing specialist assessments, leading a team, and managing a clinical caseload of complex neuro patients. Ideal candidates should have a degree in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration, along with leadership experience and diverse clinical skills.

Qualifications

• Evidence of applied leadership skills.
• Diverse clinical experience including core areas of practice.
• Experience in management of neurological illnesses.

Responsibilities

• Lead the occupational therapy staff in Neurosciences.
• Provide specialist therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation.
• Manage a clinical caseload of highly complex patients.

Skills

Leadership skills

Advanced clinical reasoning

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Neurosciences expertise

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registered Occupational Therapist

Job description

Job summary

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, self-motivated, and innovative Occupational Therapist to join our Acute Neurosciences Therapy team. We are looking for a Team Lead to the Occupational Therapists providing care to both inpatients on the 75 bedded acute neuroscience ward and the neuro intensive care unit.

The Team Lead will lead and work collaboratively with the dynamic multi-professional team to deliver early high-quality specialist assessments and rehabilitation. They will be responsible for operational management, supervising and teaching Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants and students, and initiating and leading in audit, quality improvement and evidence-based projects. They will also manage a clinical caseload of highly complex neurosurgical and neuro-medical patients.

We have good support and learning opportunities within the Trust and Therapies CSU to develop those new to leadership roles. There is also plenty of opportunity to continue to develop clinical skills.

Responsibilities:

• To deploy advanced knowledge, skills and experience to effectively lead the occupational therapy staff working in Neurosciences (inpatient ward and neuro intensive care).
• Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation as part of a multidisciplinary acute neuroscience 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.

About us

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.

Person Specification

Education/qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registered Occupational Therapist

Experience and skills

• Evidence of applied leadership skills
• Diverse clinical experience including core areas of practice, such as gerontology, neuroscience, orthopaedics and rehabilitation
• Advanced clinical skills in the management of complex physical and cognitive manifestations of neurological illness or injury
• Experience of working as part of an integrated therapy team and multidisciplinary team.