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 and therefore offers unique opportunities including:
1. Palliative medicine within the hospital – specialist ward as well as general medical wards.
2. Oncology conditions, fast track D/C planning & complex manual handling assessments & equipment provision.
3. Long term life limiting conditions and challenging conversations.
4. Palliative rehabilitation.
5. Katherine House hospice – located within the grounds of County Hospital.
6. Autonomous working, managing own caseload, prioritising patients, flexible working within inpatient unit, day services and community team.
7. Facilitating interactive wellbeing sessions with other MDT members with fatigue management being a particular focus for OT.
8. Exciting opportunity to work on the development of new wellbeing services for the local community.
9. 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.
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.
If you do wish to escape this beautiful part of the world, the large metropolitan cities of Manchester and Birmingham are a stone’s throw away, each with an international airport. With London just 80 minutes on the train down the west coast mainline, which serves both our hospitals, the North Midlands really is the place to be to work and live.
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.
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