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Do you have experience in Occupational Therapy
?
Do you want to
be part of a pro-active multi-disciplinary and professional team, who put excellent patient care as their priority?
Are you passionate about supporting and empowering patients to live well until their very last moment in their life?
- Through holistic needs assessment
- Providing individually planned care informed by patient wishes
- Supporting patients and their families/carers to have open and honest conversations about their wishes for end-of-life care
If so, then the role of
Occupational Therapist
at Pilgrims may be just the job for you!
This role is a
0.5 FTE (19 hours per week)
post, involvingthe following duties:
- To use evidence based knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning to undertake highly complex clinical assessment, in a relevant location, e.g. nursing/residential home, hospital or in a patients own home, identifying needs, treatment aims and goals in collaboration with the individual patient and the MDT.
- These may be in-patients, out-patients or those attending outreach clinics. Assessment and treatment may include advanced skills in wheelchair adjustment, therapeutic handling / hoisting and discharge planning in a busy and unpredictable environment.
- To use specialist skills to engage patients with challenging behaviour, psychological and psychiatric needs in purposeful treatment programmes, in collaboration with the MDT, to ensure the provision of holistic care.
- To determine patients level of understanding of treatment plan to ensure valid patient consent and work within legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent.
- To use recognised outcome measures and goal setting measures to motivate challenging clients.
- To use advance level specialist assessment and analytical skills. To utilise expert clinical reasoning, in order to interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a range of highly complex conditions.
MAIN PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE JOB
:
It is recognised that independence and mobility are an important factor in maximising quality of life for patients. The role of the Occupational Therapist is to support Pilgrims Hospices patients to achieve maximum independent function and to help them retain that independence for as long as possible while under Pilgrims care. ______________________________________________________________
POSITION IN ORGANISATION
Reports to: Band 7 Lead Occupational Therapist
Do you have experience in Occupational Therapy
?
Do you want to
be part of a pro-active multi-disciplinary and professional team, who put excellent patient care as their priority?
Are you passionate about supporting and empowering patients to live well until their very last moment in their life?
- Through holistic needs assessment
- Providing individually planned care informed by patient wishes
- Supporting patients and their families/carers to have open and honest conversations about their wishes for end-of-life care
If so, then the role of
Occupational Therapist
at Pilgrims may be just the job for you!
This role is a
0.5 FTE (19 hours per week)
post, involvingthe following duties:
- To use evidence based knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning to undertake highly complex clinical assessment, in a relevant location, e.g. nursing/residential home, hospital or in a patients own home, identifying needs, treatment aims and goals in collaboration with the individual patient and the MDT.
- These may be in-patients, out-patients or those attending outreach clinics. Assessment and treatment may include advanced skills in wheelchair adjustment, therapeutic handling / hoisting and discharge planning in a busy and unpredictable environment.
- To use specialist skills to engage patients with challenging behaviour, psychological and psychiatric needs in purposeful treatment programmes, in collaboration with the MDT, to ensure the provision of holistic care.
- To determine patients level of understanding of treatment plan to ensure valid patient consent and work within legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent.
- To use recognised outcome measures and goal setting measures to motivate challenging clients.
- To use advance level specialist assessment and analytical skills. To utilise expert clinical reasoning, in order to interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a range of highly complex conditions.
About us
MAIN PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE JOB
:
It is recognised that independence and mobility are an important factor in maximising quality of life for patients. The role of the Occupational Therapist is to support Pilgrims Hospices patients to achieve maximum independent function and to help them retain that independence for as long as possible while under Pilgrims care. ______________________________________________________________
POSITION IN ORGANISATION
Reports to: Band 7 Lead Occupational Therapist
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