Job overview
The ESD for stroke team is dedicated to helping stroke patients return home from hospital sooner by providing high quality, specialist stroke rehabilitation in the home environment, to achieve our patients' individual goals.
We are looking for a professional, caring and compassionate rehabilitation assistant to support with the provision of specialist stroke rehabilitation in the community.
You are motivated, flexible and will work autonomously; supporting the team in delivering therapy as directed by qualified members of the team. You will ideally have some experience of working within the NHS and providing therapy or care to patients. We would encourage applicants to contact the department to discuss the role further.
The role involves driving within the county of Oxfordshire, and access to a car is essential. Please state this in your application.
The ESD team is a -day service and the successful applicant will be required to work some Saturdays on a rota basis. The role will also encompass supporting the team with administrative duties, including organisation of equipment and uploading data to trust approved IT systems.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work closely with Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Nurses to support the delivery of rehabilitation and recovery of stroke patients in their own homes across Oxfordshire and participate in weekend working. The post holder will assist the ESD team with a range of duties delegated to them by therapists from each of the disciplines. This will also include administrative duties such as equipment management uploading date to trust approved IT systems. Good IT skills are an essential aspect of this role.
They will provide holistic interventions for patients, often without direct supervision, and will be accountable at all times to a registered practitioner. Delivery of interventions needs to be timely and responsive due to the needs of the client group, and effective team working is a key requirement of this role.
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. Find out more here
Our core values are excellence, compassion, respect, delivery, learning and improvement.
Collaboration and partnership are also central to our approach in delivering our fundamental activities of patient care teaching and research.
These values determine the Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's vision to be:
"At the heart of a sustainable and outstanding, innovative, academic health science system, working in partnership and through networks locally, nationally and internationally to deliver and develop excellence and value in patient care, teaching and research within a culture of compassion and integrity.
This vision is underpinned by the Trust's founding partnership with the University of Oxford."