St Luke's Specialist Occupational Therapist Band 6
An exciting and rare opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our specialist team within St Luke's to help deliver our Strategy Every Death Matters with a key focus on early intervention and identification of palliative and end of life care.
Within St Luke's therapy team, their key focus is on rehabilitation palliative care enabling people to live fully until they die.
They will be working predominantly within the specialist community team providing high standard of Occupational Therapy assessment with patients in their own home alongside the Clinical Nurse Specialist team. The AHP team offers an in-reach service to patients admitted to the inpatient Unit, assisting in discharge planning and therapeutic interventions.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join the multi-disciplinary team in the provision of specialist palliative care to patients and their families.
The post holder will need to be able to work autonomously and be responsible for complex holistic assessments and planning care to meet patients' practical, psychological, spiritual, and social needs. They will work closely with primary and secondary care professionals and Hospice colleagues, and good communication and team working skills are essential.
Main duties of the job
For further information regarding the main duties of this role, please see the Job Description attached.
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Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached.
Closing date for this role is 3 October 2024.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Please see the job description and person specification attached.
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.
Contact
Nurse Consultant / Head of Community Services
07920561750
Date posted
10 September 2024
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