Occupational Therapist / Full or Part Time / Hospice

Daytime Healthcare are assisting a Hospice in Hackney, East London to find a Occupational Therapist to join the team. You will work as part of committed and creative team, which offers innovative therapeutic interventions and support to people with specialist palliative and end life care needs.

Core role:

• Be a core member of a specialist interdisciplinary palliative care team which includes Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Speech and Language Therapy and Physiotherapy
• Undertake highly specialised OT assessment and treatment of palliative care patients as an autonomous practitioner with support available from other therapists for patients with complex needs
• Provide OT input to patients in the inpatient, respite and Day Hospice setting under the care of the hospice. Provide specialist functional assessment in relation to patients being discharged home
• To provide clinical specialist advise and clinical supervision within the service and to OT students on field work placement and rehab assistant as required
• Contribute to, and take a leadership role in, projects, groups and teaching initiatives as a source of OT expertise and advice

About you:

• Highly developed clinical skills necessary to tailor and adapt therapeutic interventions across a complex patient caseload
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working in an inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation settings
• Skilled in the management of respiratory, neurological, musculoskeletal, and oncological conditions

We would ideally also like someone who has experience in one or more of the following:

• Experience in a Hospital or Clinic
• Palliative care
• Neuro-rehab
• Geriatric/elderly
• Inpatient

Hours:

The role is either part time or full time of either 37.5 or 30 hours per week and the salary is paid at band 6.

Apply today!