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Role Overview
University Hospital Lewisham OT seeks a highly skilled Stroke Occupational Therapist (band 8a) to join our progressive and friendly Stroke unit Rehabilitation team. This senior role is pivotal in delivering high‑quality, patient‑centred stroke care across the acute stroke units.
The postholder will provide advanced clinical assessment and intervention for patients across the stroke pathway, leading service development initiatives to enhance rehabilitation effectiveness and improve patient flow. They will offer specialist advice, education, and supervision to junior therapists, students and members of the wider MDT, while supporting quality improvement, audit, and research activity within the stroke service. The role also includes contributing to strategic planning to strengthen occupational therapy provision across the trust.
The postholder will actively engage with South East London stroke network, contributing to collaborative pathways, shared learning and regional service development initiatives. They will support the trust’s ongoing commitment to delivering high‑quality stroke care by ensuring practice aligns with SSNAP standards, participating in data review, and driving improvements that enhance performance across key SSNAP domains.
Job Summary
To lead a high quality, effective, and efficient stroke therapy service within inpatient therapy services; to utilise highly specialised and expert clinical reasoning skills and Occupational Therapy knowledge to manage an autonomous caseload and provide support to the stroke therapy and neuro outliers OT team; to be the lead Occupational therapist for the stroke units at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; to support the inpatient Lead OT in the operational management of the stroke OT team, ensuring development of the service in line with evidence‑based practice and working across the whole stroke and neuro pathway.
Responsibilities
* Provide advanced clinical assessment and intervention for patients across the stroke pathway, leading service development initiatives to enhance rehabilitation effectiveness and improve patient flow.
* Offer specialist advice, education, and supervision to junior therapists, students and members of the wider multidisciplinary team.
* Support quality improvement, audit, and research activity within the stroke service.
* Contribute to strategic planning to strengthen occupational therapy provision across the trust.
* Actively engage with South East London stroke network, contributing to collaborative pathways, shared learning and regional service development initiatives.
* Ensure practice aligns with SSNAP standards, participate in data review, and drive improvements that enhance performance across key SSNAP domains.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Our People Are Our Greatest Asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for – the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivating a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to embed the five aspirations.
* Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from Black, Asian and ethnic minorities backgrounds, who identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
* Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
* Improving the experience of staff with disability.
* Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
* Making equalities mainstream.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Tilley, Job title: Head of Adult Occupational Therapy, Email address: emma.tilley1@nhs.net, Telephone number: 07788566176
For Informal Visits please contact: Jessica Crankshaw: jessica.crankshaw@nhs.net
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