Occupational Therapist – Palliative Rehabilitation

Job Description

Occupational Therapist – Palliative Rehabilitation

12 month Fixed Term Contract

Salary – up to £21,889.80 per annum actual (£36,483 per annum FTE) Band 5

22.5 hours per week

(Experienced Band 4 applicants will also be considered)

If you have a passion for palliative rehabilitation, and a bold, innovative, creative approach to clinical and service delivery then this is the perfect career development opportunity and chance to join our Rehabilitation team for the year. At Mountbatten we are looking for an individual who will provide skilled Occupational Therapy input and promote a philosophy of empowerment and enablement via collaborative working and motivating others.

About the Role

The postholder will provide a specialist and skilled Occupational Therapy service to patients under the care of Mountbatten Hospice, predominantly across our Inpatient unit, but also including the outpatient department and community.

Key tasks include:

· Undertaking holistic Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment of inpatients and outpatients with complex, life limiting conditions as an autonomous practitioner, focusing on what matters to the individual and optimising function to maximise quality of life.

· Working as part of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective communication and delivery of care to meet identified need.

· Maintaining effective communication with patients, carers and colleagues.

· Promoting and being an advocate for palliative rehabilitation and enablement across the services, supporting colleagues to adopt a positive risk-taking approach.

About You

You will be a skilled Occupational Therapist (or a very experienced Band 4 Rehabilitation Assistant), with experience of working in a variety of settings. You will have excellent clinical, administration, and team-working skills. You will be able to maintain excellent communication with the wider multi-disciplinary team, including volunteers, as well as patients and their families and other visitors taking into account their physical, emotional, spiritual and social needs.

Utilising your experience, you will exercise complex levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care. You will be able to demonstrate therapeutic skills to identify, assess, treat, and manage people affected by life limiting disease. Flexibility and creative thinking are key to the role.

You will work collaboratively with colleagues to best meet the needs of the patient and their families, supporting delivery of policy and procedures, and play an active part in the senior clinical leadership team.

You will have high levels of personal resilience and the ability to work to deadlines with the ability to concentrate on the most complex and challenging issues.

This vacancy is open from mid April 2025 to mid April 2026, with the ideal work pattern being 22.5 hours worked over three days, between Monday and Friday. However, we are willing to discuss alternative arrangements for the right candidate.

The post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check the cost of which is covered by the Hospice.

For an informal discussion and visit about this opportunity, please contact

Mary Banks, Head of Rehabilitation and Enablement on 01983 217348 or at mary.banks@mountbatten.org.uk

Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: Up to £21,889.80 per year

Expected hours: 22.5 per week

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Day shift

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 31/01/2025
Reference ID: VC294
Expected start date: 01/04/2025