Your role will be responsible for providing and delivering person-centred, holistic rehabilitation to palliative care patients including those with cancer, long term neurological and other progressive life-limiting conditions other than cancer such as COPD and heart failure to patients on our in-patient unit with support to out-patients and home visits as required. You will be responsible for providing expert and skilled rehabilitation by undertaking holistic, specialist assessments of people's goals and needs, and developing dynamic treatment plans. You will implement and deliver excellent treatments including both group and individual sessions to patients focusing on maximising function and engagement with their lives.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be responsible for providing and delivering person-centred, holistic rehabilitation to palliative care patients including those with cancer, long term neurological and other progressive life-limiting conditions other than cancer such as COPD and heart failure to patients on our in-patient unit with support to out-patients and home visits as required. You will be responsible for providing expert and skilled rehabilitation by undertaking holistic, specialist assessments of people's goals and needs, and developing dynamic treatment plans. You will implement and deliver excellent treatments including both group and individual sessions to patients focusing on maximising function and engagement with their lives.
About us
St Christophers, in our experience, is an extraordinary place to work.
Our aim at St Christophers is to deliver care and support that is of the highest quality to our patients, their families and carers and anyone else who looks to us for help. We know that people working across our organisation will only be able to provide this if they in turn, feel supported in their endeavours.
Job responsibilities
JOB TITLE: Specialised Occupational Therapist
SALARY: £22,402.8 - £26,977 plus High Cost Allowance for 22.5 hours per week (37,338-£44,962 FTE plus High Cost Allowance)
HOURS: 22.5 hours
We are looking for an ambitious, motivated and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic and forward-thinking rehabilitation team at St Christophers.
To succeed in this role, you will be a person-centred therapist with sound clinical reasoning skills and the ability to deliver therapeutic, rehabilitation interventions across a complex patient caseload. You will have experience across core areas of clinical practice and have advanced communication skills.
What you will get in return is a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives and experiences of people living with life limiting and terminal illness. In addition, you will benefit from access to some excellent training and development opportunities, a number of staff health and wellbeing schemes, a competitive contributory pension scheme and Life Assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan.
Please contact Lorna Pearce, Rehabilitation and Wellbeing lead on 0208 768 4661 (l.pearce@stchristophers.org.uk) or Lizzy Jenkins, Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist on 07900320894 (l.jenkins@stchristophers.org.uk) for an informal discussion about the role.
To apply for this role, please visit the vacancies section on our website www.stchristophers.org.uk and complete the application form, together with the other required documentation and return these to recruitment@stchristophers.or.uk by no later than the closing date specified below.
Closing date: Sunday 2nd February 2025
Interview date: Provisional Thursday 20th February 2025
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Essential: Recognised qualification in Occupational therapy and HCPC registration
Experience
* Essential: More than three years clinical experience across a range of clinical areas i.e. general medical, oncology, neurology, respiratory, orthopaedic, elderly care etc.
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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