Clinical Support Worker inOxford inOxford PUBLISHED 19 JUL 2024

As part of the interdisciplinary team, perform a range of supportive clinical, administrative and housekeeping tasks for the SDS clinical and technical teams, in order to facilitate the smooth running of the service, which provides a range of equipment to patients with complex disabilities. This can include posture and mobility equipment and assistive technology equipment.

Clinic support

Prepare clinic rooms and assessment equipment.

Communicate with a wide variety of people, including those with significant communication difficulties and barriers to understanding, by telephone, email and in face to face. encounters.

Make routine follow-up contacts with patients after provision of posture and mobility equipment and/or assistive technology equipment, using telephone or email, to determine outcomes and to identify any issues, passing the information back to qualified members of staff.

Be the point of contact for outpatient clinic administration: liaise with reception staff; escort patients to and settle them in the relevant clinic room; liaise with the administration team in relation to arrangements for hospital transport.

After use, clean the clinic room and any used assessment equipment, returning the latter to stock.

Assist team members in researching specific pieces of equipment to meet specific clinical and functional requirements.

Have a general working knowledge and understanding of the range of equipment issued by the service and be confident and competent in its use and limitations.

Occasionally support physical assessments of patients with qualified members of staff.

Occasionally escort and assist team members working in the community.

Occasionally deliver or collect pieces of equipment in the community using a lease/hire vehicle.

Provide administrative support to the clinical team in relation to specific clinical support activities.


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. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Oakes Job title: Posture Management Specialist and Course Lead Email address: Telephone number:
As part of the interdisciplinary team, perform a range of supportive clinical, administrative and housekeeping tasks for the SDS clinical and technical teams, in order to facilitate the smooth running of the service, which provides a range of equipment to patients with complex disabilities. This can include posture and mobility equipment and assistive technology equipment.

Clinic support

Prepare clinic rooms and assessment equipment.

Communicate with a wide variety of people, including those with significant communication difficulties and barriers to understanding, by telephone, email and in face to face. encounters.

Make routine follow-up contacts with patients after provision of posture and mobility equipment and/or assistive technology equipment, using telephone or email, to determine outcomes and to identify any issues, passing the information back to qualified members of staff.

Be the point of contact for outpatient clinic administration: liaise with reception staff; escort patients to and settle them in the relevant clinic room; liaise with the administration team in relation to arrangements for hospital transport.

After use, clean the clinic room and any used assessment equipment, returning the latter to stock.

Assist team members in researching specific pieces of equipment to meet specific clinical and functional requirements.

Have a general working knowledge and understanding of the range of equipment issued by the service and be confident and competent in its use and limitations.

Occasionally support physical assessments of patients with qualified members of staff.

Occasionally escort and assist team members working in the community.

Occasionally deliver or collect pieces of equipment in the community using a lease/hire vehicle.

Provide administrative support to the clinical team in relation to specific clinical support activities.

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. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Oakes Job title: Posture Management Specialist and Course Lead Email address: Telephone number:


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