Palliative Care Senior Occupational Therapist
University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Due to new developments, an exciting opportunity has presented itself for a Senior Occupational Therapist specialising in Palliative Care to join the Palliative Therapy team at County Hospital.
Would you like to develop your clinical skills working within the palliative care field alongside your leadership and teaching skills? If so, come and join the Therapies team at the University of North Midlands NHS Trust.
This is a split post working between the local hospice and the acute hospital, offering unique opportunities including:
* Palliative medicine within the hospital - specialist ward as well as general medical wards
o Oncology conditions, fast track discharge planning & complex manual handling assessments & equipment provision.
o Long-term life limiting conditions and challenging conversations.
o Palliative rehabilitation.
* Katherine House hospice - located within the grounds of County Hospital.
o Autonomous working, managing own caseload, prioritising patients, and flexible working within inpatient unit, day services and community team.
o Facilitating interactive wellbeing sessions with other MDT members, with fatigue management being a particular focus for OT.
o Exciting opportunity to work on the development of new wellbeing services for the local community.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have the opportunity to support and supervise Occupational Therapy students.
You will be part of a large combined therapies team, which can offer a wide range of learning and development opportunities. Supervision will be provided by an Advanced Therapist and continuous development is supported through appraisal, internal training, and external learning.
Training opportunities across University Hospital of North Midlands include access to an on-site simulation training lab. Close links with Staffordshire, Coventry, Derbyshire, and Keele universities for support with external learning, apprenticeships at level 6 and 7, and research support as well as internal in-service and journal clubs.
About us
The University Hospital of North Midlands is located on two hospital sites, Royal Stoke and County, providing learning and development opportunities across a large therapies team. The Therapies team offers an excellent 7-day provision with staff working weekends and bank holidays.
Job responsibilities
Opportunities for flexible working and part-time would be considered.
For further information regarding this post please contact Clare Johnson on telephone number 01785 230802 or email clare.johnson@uhnm.nhs.uk. Applications are available through www.nhsjobs.co.uk.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
* Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
* HCPC registered
* Experience within an acute trust
* Experience with palliative care pathways
Experience
* Minimum of 18 months post-graduate experience as an Occupational Therapist
* NHS experience
Skills Knowledge and Ability
* Clinical Educator
* Experience of audits or research
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.
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