Occupational Therapist inIsle of Wight inIsle of Wight PUBLISHED THU 12 DEC 2024

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 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.

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 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 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 us

To perform Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse palliative care needs. To provide, develop and deliver individualised treatment programmes, and to undertake these tasks as an autonomous practitioner, with support from senior colleagues in particularly complex cases.

Maintain a focus on optimising patients functional and self-management abilities and enabling them with what matters most to them, through tailored and appropriate rehabilitation, plus collaboration with rehabilitation colleagues.

To facilitate and promote a palliative rehabilitation and enablement philosophy and approach within the Hospice throughout the organisation and to other health and social care providers.

Alongside colleagues, coordinate and develop the day to day operation of the Hospices Rehabilitation Team.

Act as an Occupational Therapy resource; providing advice, education, and support to members of the Hospice Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and Health and Social Care teams.

Provide moving and handling advice and support to staff, volunteers and patients relatives at the Hospice.

Continually develop own knowledge and skills, accessing internal education opportunities plus self-led learning.

*Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full requirements of this role*