Job summary
Newcastle Community Stroke Services is an innovative, award winning Multi-Disciplinary Team committed to delivering high quality community-based stroke rehabilitation for adults. We are part of a well-established integrated stroke pathway ensuring high quality stroke care from acute admission, inpatient rehabilitation to home. We are constantly evolving our practice to provide evidence based therapeutic interventions and use patient and carer feedback to develop rehabilitation pathways that meet our patient's needs. We are ready to welcome an enthusiastic, creative, and dynamic new Specialist Occupational Therapist to our team.
We are a welcoming, supportive team, dedicated to improving the outcome for stroke patients and provide support for their significant others. We provide education, information and promote self-management skills to complement the patient's individual rehabilitation journey.
Are you looking for an opportunity to further develop your stroke rehabilitation skills and knowledge, contribute to service development, enhance your leadership skills, and invest in your own continuing professional development? If the answer is yes, then we would welcome your application to join our team.
- Interview Date: 2 December 2025
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37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
Assessment of stroke patients in their own homes via face to face and virtual means as appropriate. Treatment planning in line with multidisciplinary patient centred goals. Providing interventions with patients and their families supporting self help and independence. Keeping accurate patient records. Being involved in service improvement.
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
o Freeman Hospital
o Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
o Newcastle Dental Hospital
o Newcastle Fertility Centre
o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
o Northern Genetics Service
o Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide a high standard of occupational therapy care to complex and highly complex patients within Community Stroke Services evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.
- To provide day to day supervision of junior and support staff and students working in the specialist area.
- To provide an in-reach service to acute and rehabilitation in-patient settings to provide screening assessment to determine which patients are appropriate for the service and co-ordinate and support a safe transfer home.
- The specialist practitioner is the clinical lead for the Occupational Therapy Service within Community Stroke Services providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care.
- To carry a caseload of complex and highly complex patients within Community Stroke Services providing specialist therapy assessment and treatment.
- To be an active member of the inter-disciplinary team to ensure a consistent, equitable and high-quality evidence based service is developed to meet the needs of patients.
- To provide highly specialist advice, education and training relating to occupational therapy for stroke patients within the Trust and externally to therapy and health care professionals in secondary and primary care across the region.
- To be responsible for own continued professional development and facilitate a learning culture within the team undertaking audit and practice development
- To be actively involved in the education of occupational therapy students.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide a high standard of occupational therapy care to complex and highly complex patients within Community Stroke Services evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.
- To provide day to day supervision of junior and support staff and students working in the specialist area.
- To provide an in-reach service to acute and rehabilitation in-patient settings to provide screening assessment to determine which patients are appropriate for the service and co-ordinate and support a safe transfer home.
- The specialist practitioner is the clinical lead for the Occupational Therapy Service within Community Stroke Services providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care.
- To carry a caseload of complex and highly complex patients within Community Stroke Services providing specialist therapy assessment and treatment.
- To be an active member of the inter-disciplinary team to ensure a consistent, equitable and high-quality evidence based service is developed to meet the needs of patients.
- To provide highly specialist advice, education and training relating to occupational therapy for stroke patients within the Trust and externally to therapy and health care professionals in secondary and primary care across the region.
- To be responsible for own continued professional development and facilitate a learning culture within the team undertaking audit and practice development
- To be actively involved in the education of occupational therapy students.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Degree or equivalent diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant relevant post graduate experience in a physical setting.
- In-depth knowledge of health and social care policy, risk assessment and management.
- In-depth clinical knowledge of stroke and its impact on a patient's functional ability.
- Highly specialised understanding of occupational therapy theory, clinical practices and procedures within stroke environment.
- Extensive knowledge of a range of specialist disability equipment, eligibility criteria and procedures/policies relevant to the provision of disability equipment, minor housing adaptations.
- Highly specialist knowledge of moving and handling legislation and knowledge of current moving and handling best practice and associated equipment and be able to apply this knowledge effectively in an advisory capacity to other health care professionals.
- Experience in supervision of therapists, support staff and students.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance so to maintain own continued professional development (CPD) participating in internal and external development opportunities, recording learning outcomes in a portfolio.
- Ability to be involved in the promotion of occupational therapy outside the service e.g. within the directorate ensuring occupational therapy is incorporated into any new developments if appropriate. An active member of special interest group.
- Ability to lead and actively participate in team in-service training within the team.
- Hold a full UK valid driving license and has access to a vehicle they can use for the purpose of carrying out the role
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Degree or equivalent diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant relevant post graduate experience in a physical setting.
- In-depth knowledge of health and social care policy, risk assessment and management.
- In-depth clinical knowledge of stroke and its impact on a patient's functional ability.
- Highly specialised understanding of occupational therapy theory, clinical practices and procedures within stroke environment.
- Extensive knowledge of a range of specialist disability equipment, eligibility criteria and procedures/policies relevant to the provision of disability equipment, minor housing adaptations.
- Highly specialist knowledge of moving and handling legislation and knowledge of current moving and handling best practice and associated equipment and be able to apply this knowledge effectively in an advisory capacity to other health care professionals.
- Experience in supervision of therapists, support staff and students.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance so to maintain own continued professional development (CPD) participating in internal and external development opportunities, recording learning outcomes in a portfolio.
- Ability to be involved in the promotion of occupational therapy outside the service e.g. within the directorate ensuring occupational therapy is incorporated into any new developments if appropriate. An active member of special interest group.
- Ability to lead and actively participate in team in-service training within the team.
- Hold a full UK valid driving license and has access to a vehicle they can use for the purpose of carrying out the role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
