Specialist Practitioner; PT​/OT Lead

The Neurorehab Service are looking to recruit an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to work as part of our Eastern Integrated Community Stroke Service. The opportunity is a highly specialist therapist to work full time and gain substantive employment within the service. The team support patients after a stroke enabling patients to continue to received high quality, specialist and patient focussed rehabilitation outside the hospital environment.

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More detail about the role

Are you ready to progress your career in Neurorehab? Or are you a Neuro specialist occupational therapist or physiotherapist looking for a leadership opportunity and better work-life balance in an innovative trust and research active team? If so, this might be the post for you.

Join a team of dynamic, progressive and dedicated therapists. Be invested in, supported, and given the opportunities to continue to learn and develop as a specialist therapist and leader so that you are able to succeed in your role and progress your career.

About the role:

This vacancy is based within the Eastern Integrated Community Stroke Service. The team support patients after a stroke enabling their care to be transferred from an inpatient environment to a community setting. They enable people to continue to receive high quality, specialist and patient focussed rehabilitation outside of hospital. The service is committed to delivering and developing intensive, goal orientated rehabilitation aligned with national stroke guidelines.

This includes using and developing telerehabilitation and group therapy approaches to enhance access, intensity and continuity of therapy.

We are seeking a highly motivated Band 7 Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to play a key role in shaping and delivering an intensive and responsive community stroke service. The post holder will manage a complex caseload whilst also providing clinical leadership within the team.

The Eastern Integrated Community Stroke Service are a forward-thinking team who seek opportunities to influence service development and identify new ways of working. The team work collaboratively within an integrated MDT, including nursing, medical, speech and language and social care colleagues. They are committed to supporting self-management, secondary prevention and long-term condition management in partnership with patients, carers and the wider MDT.

The Neurorehab service has a proven track record in development of our staff and opportunities for career development. We have a number of senior staff trained to MSc level, and have embedded advanced clinical practice and consultant AHP roles within the service. The Therapy team is at the forefront of innovation and development, in both our services and our people. Within this post you can expect to be invested in, supported and given the tools you need to succeed in your role and progress in your career.

We are a friendly, supportive and dedicated team. By joining the service, you will be joining a group of likeminded professionals who aim to rehabilitate patients, support those living with long term conditions and promote health, well-being and independence.

Innovation is central to therapies at the Royal Devon, demonstrated by the implementation of several new initiatives and the development of non-traditional roles in recent years including a Research and Innovation Lead. We are not afraid of adopting new techniques, as shown by the introduction of our ultrasound-guided injection therapy in Orthopaedic and Neurology pathways.

Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday 8-4pm with occasional weekend work

Interview Date: To be confirmed

For further information please contact: Anna Jillings Clinical Nurse Manager on  

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