Palliative Care Senior Occupational Therapist inStafford inStafford PUBLISHED
TUE 5 NOV 2024
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to supervise Occupational Therapy students and be part of a larger therapies team, benefiting from extensive learning and development opportunities, including training programs and connections with several universities. Flexible working arrangements and part-time options are available, and supervision will be provided by an Advanced Therapist to foster continual professional development. Interested candidates can contact Clare Johnson for more information on the application process.
Due to new developments an exciting opportunity has presented itself for a Senior Occupational Therapist specialising in Palliative Care to join the Palliative Therapy team at County Hospital.
Would you like to develop your clinical skills working within the palliative care field alongside your leadership and teaching skills? If so, come and join the Therapies team at the University of North Midlands NHS Trust.
This is a split post working between the local hospice and the acute hospital and therefore offers unique opportunities including:
- Palliative medicine within the hospital -specialist ward as well as general medical wards
- Oncology conditions, fast track D/C planning & complex manual handling assessments & equipment provision.
- Long term life limiting conditions and challenging conversations.
- Palliative rehabilitation.
- Katherine House hospice - located within the grounds of County Hospital.
- Autonomous working, managing own caseload, prioritising patients , flexible,working within inpatient unit, day services and community team.
- Facilitating interactive wellbeing Sessions with other MDT. members with fatigue management being particular focus for OT.
- Exciting opportunity to work on development of new wellbeing services for the local community.
The post holder will have the opportunity to support and supervise Occupational Therapy students.
You will be part of a large combined therapies team, which can offer a wide range of learning and development opportunities. Supervision will be provided by an Advanced Therapist and continuous development is supported through appraisal, internal training and external learning.
Training opportunities across University Hospital of North Midlands include access to an on-site simulation training lab. Close links with Staffordshire, Coventry, Derbyshire and Keele universities for support with external learning, apprenticeships at level 6 and 7 and research support as well as internal in-service and journal clubs.
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Opportunities for flexible working and part time would be considered.
For further information regarding this post please contact Clare Johnson on telephone number or email Applications are available through www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsfa6X
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