A great opportunity for an occupational therapist, physiotherapist or healthcare scientist to join the Oxfordshire Wheelchair Service. We are a multi-disciplinary team of therapists, engineers, technicians and administrators working together to provide wheelchairs and wheelchair seating to Oxfordshire.
You will be based at the Oxford Centre of Enablement at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. Appointments are carried out in clinic and in the community at patients' homes, schools and day centres.
Driving license essential, but pool vehicles are provided so no need for access to your own car.
Full-time preferred, but part time will be considered.
- To work within the multi-disciplinary team as a wheelchair clinician offering high quality, user-focused wheelchair and seating provision to adults and children registered with an Oxfordshire GP.
- To assess for, prescribe, supply and evaluate seating and mobility equipment to adults and children, many of whom will have complex problems.
- To work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
- To act as a resource for all Health Care Professionals within Oxfordshire, providing ongoing support and advice on seating prescription and provision, pressure management, posture management and related issues.
- To supervise junior staff and students as required.
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
OUH YouTube channel.
In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kathryn Bourne Job title: Clinical Lead Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 01865 227273
