Occupational Therapist
£32,967 - £37,152 FTE
(£16.86 - £19.00 per hour)
Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice, Oxenhope, Keighley
30 hours per week
Weekdays only
Be there when it matters
There has never been a more important time to provide high quality, specialist end-of-life care to support patients and their families.
About us
Manorlands Hospice is in Oxenhope, near Keighley. As well as expert palliative care, we support people with life-limiting conditions, and their families. We work across Airedale, Wharfedale, Craven, and North and Bradford.
About the Role
As an Occupational Therapist at Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice, you will play a vital role in identifying life roles and activities that are meaningful to patients and planning care to address barriers to perform these activities.
This role will suit an experienced practitioner with a broad knowledge base and experience of working in a wide variety of clinical fields who wishes to specialise in the field of palliative rehabilitation.
About you
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate knowledge of palliative care interventions, strong communication and inter-personal skills and the ability to work well within a close multi-disciplinary team.
Essential criteria:
•Highly specialist knowledge and application of therapy assessments and interventions using complex level clinical reasoning
•Experience of evidence based practice and outcome measures
•Motivational skills and goal setting for personalised care
•An ability to work autonomously and to set own and others’ priorities
•An ability to confidently assess and manage risk in relation to therapist/therapy service performance
•Excellent advanced communication skills
•Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses
Qualifications and registration
•Diploma / BSC (Hons) in Occupational Therapy (OT)
•Registered with Health and Care Professionals Council
Benefits
• Enhanced pay for unsociable hours
• Company pension scheme
•Continuation of NHS pension (T&Cs apply)
•27 days holiday - rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
•NHS annual leave honoured (T&Cs apply)
•Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
•Enhanced sick pay
•Employee Networks - LGBTQ+, Ethnic Diversity and Equality, People with Disabilities, and Women and Non Binary Individuals
•Staff discount of 10% on new goods online at shop.sueryder.org
•Structured induction programme and learning and development opportunities.
For more of our employee benefits please visit our website.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and continue to make Sue Ryder a great place to work, and attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible. We are particularly interested in increasing applications from the global majority, LGTBQIA+ and people with disabilities as they are currently underrepresented in our organisation.
Please let us know if you have any feedback to make our recruitment processes more accessible and inclusive or if you require any adjustments made to your application or interview process by emailing