Job overview
We have the perfect opportunity for OT or Physiotherapist to join our team
Are you looking for a role where you can spend time getting to know your patients?
Would you enjoy seeing patients in a variety of settings - Community, Inpatients, Hospital Palliative Care Team, and Living Well Service?
Do you enjoy multi-professional team working?
Would you like working in modern hospices nationally recognised for quality teaching programs?
Would you like to work alongside a broad range of highly skilled and experienced professionals?
The Specialist OT / Physio plays a key role in the multidisciplinary specialist palliative care teams by contributing their unique knowledge, skills and expertise to patient care
A full driving license, access to a car for work purposes is essential, as is the ability to work within Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire.
The Therapy service currently covers days a week with the possibility on increasing to days a week in the future. Weekend and extended hours working will be required, with cross cover for the palliative care specialist therapists s across the service.
We welcome full or part time applicants.
We strongly encourage you to contact us to discuss the role or come for an informal visit.
Main duties of the job
1. Performs holistic assessment of patients including those with complex presentations, and from this formulates a treatment plan, which is carried out as an autonomous practitioner.
2. To provide rapid assessment and intervention to prevent admission, facilitate discharge, support carers and families, manage symptoms, improve function and quality of life and ensure safety.
3. Maintain a clinical caseload of complex patients as an autonomous practitioner.
4. Communication and collaboration with others involved in the care of patients, and non-clinical activity.
5. Work as part of the MDT with patients known to Palliative Care across the settings of Community, Living Well Services, Inpatient Unit and Outpatients.
6. Participates in the supervision, teaching and appraisal of junior / student Occupational Therapists and Therapy Assistants.
7. Participate in maintaining and improving all aspects of evidence-based practice and quality assurance, this may involve change management.
8. Contribute to services development, clinical governance, audit, research and CPD.
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 .