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The ideal applicant will possess extensive expertise in managing a complex caseload of patients with advanced diseases and will work autonomously to ensure the delivery of specialist palliative care. Travel throughout the county is required, and access to a vehicle is essential. The position offers competitive pay at £21.19 per hour, with a focus on enhancing the quality of life for patients at all stages of their illness.
St Margaret's Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Bank Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our multi-disciplinary palliative care team.Working on a bank basis, you will receive £21.19 per hour.
You will work cross county, primarily in the west of Somerset, to deliver responsive care to patients with life limiting conditions.The majority of our patients are cared for at home and you will play a vital role in ensuring they have all the safe systems of equipment and adaptations to facilitate this, using person centred assessment of needs and risks, as well as Moving and Handling support plans.
Please note: Access to/use of a vehicle is an essential requirement for this role.
We support palliative patients at all stages of their journey, from diagnosis to end stage disease, offering preventative, restorative, supportive and palliative rehabilitation and intervention and you will be a key part of that.
Paying attention to detail, you will tailor plans and advocate for what is important to them, helping them to achieve their goals and alleviate distress.
Your day-to-day role will involve:
- Supporting patients in a variety of settings; including in-patient, day centre and in their own homes.
- Using a holistic approach, you will undertake assessments as well as plan and deliver high quality patient care.
- Helping toevaluateand developour services using your OT expertise.
- Working collaboratively with all members of the St Margarets hospice team and external agencies
- Supporting the safe discharge of patients from the in-patient unit.
- Part of this role also includes supporting and overseeing the OT related work of our support workers.
- This role will involve traveling across the county, including with equipment. As such travel is an essential requirement.
About us
- The Bank Specialist Occupational Therapist at St. Margarets is a specialist practitioner with extensive knowledge, skills and competency to manage a complex caseload of patients with advanced, progressive life limiting disease.
- They will undertake the holistic assessment, planning and delivery of a consistently high standard of specialist palliative and supportive care in accordance with the hospice policy, procedures and standards.
- The post-holder will be working as an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team in the Hospice and in the community.
- They will establish effective working relationships with all internal referrers and referrers from Primary and Secondary Health Care teams, and act as a resource for professionals and non- professionals involved in palliative care within the community.
- They will take responsibility for own clinical caseload of complex patients working as an autonomous practitioner, without direct supervision.
- They will be instrumental in the training and development of more junior and support staff, including the oversight of the multi-disciplinary assistants OT based work.
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