Job overview
Band Specialist Occupational Therapist
Specialist Medicine Inpatients
We are looking for a proactive and committed Band Occupational Therapist to join our Specialist Medicine Inpatient Team (Osler Respiratory Unit and John Warin Ward). This role offers the opportunity to work with patients presenting with complex medical conditions within a dynamic acute hospital environment.
You will provide specialist assessment and intervention, contributing to goal-focused rehabilitation and effective discharge planning. Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, you will support patient flow while ensuring safe, high-quality care. The role requires confident clinical reasoning, flexibility, and the ability to manage competing priorities.
The successful candidate will contribute to the supervision of junior staff and students, participate in service development and audit, and support the ongoing improvement of therapy services within Specialist Medicine. Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach are essential.
We pride ourselves on being a supportive and forward-thinking team, offering regular supervision, peer support, and access to continuing professional development. This post is ideal for an experienced Band therapist or a Band therapist seeking progression within acute Specialist Medicine inpatient services.
Main duties of the job
To act as an autonomous practitioner, providing therapeutic interventions of the highest standard, in alignment with national and professional guidelines, working across a range of disciplines and settings, including (but not limited to):
. To provide specialist Occupational Therapy (OT) assessment, treatment and discharge planning
to patients within Specialist medicine inpatient wards as an autonomous practitioner.
. To clinically supervise and train junior staff and students in their assessment of rehabilitation needs and therapy goals for the patients.
. To provide specialist clinical skills in the provision, monitoring and on-going development of the service to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the service users and responds to government and Trust initiatives.
. To actively participate in quality improvement, clinical audit and research projects.
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.
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