Job overview
St Catherine’s Hospice in conjunction with LTHTR is delighted to be able to offer this exciting opportunity to join the hospice’s clinical team as an Occupational Therapist. The core mission of a hospice Occupational Therapist is to help patients maintain a sense of wellbeing and identity, even as their physical abilities decline. This involves empowering them to continue doing things they enjoy and find meaningful, fostering a sense of control over their lives, and promoting dignity and purpose. This opportunity comes at an exciting time for the hospice, which has an excellent in-patient unit of 19 beds, has expanded its well-regarded and highly-respected community Clinical Nurse Specialist team as well as launching a hospice at home pilot. This new post holder will work flexibly across clinical services and although primarily based on the inpatient unit, will have opportunities to develop community and out-patient services in addition.
Other benefits include:
-Ample, free parking in the beautiful grounds of St Catherine’s Park when based at the hospice
-Access to training and development opportunities
-Subsidised freshly prepared meals on site
-Free tea / coffee / toast available on shift
-Beautiful tranquillity of the Hospice grounds making a lovely work environment
Main duties of the job
If you are caring, compassionate and committed to making a difference to those facing conditions like cancer, heart failure and motor neurone disease at one of the most poignant times in their lives, we want to hear from you. You will become a member of a highly motivated, multi-professional team focused on providing high quality, responsive care for patients and their families when and where they need it.
You will have the opportunity to lead the development of services to support patients including co-ordinating transitions from Hospice to home, discharge planning, home assessments, safe moving and handling and mobility assessments, managing symptoms such as pain, fatigue and anxiety, and lead therapeutic interventions to improve mood, cognitive function and physical ability
Working for our organisation
You will be joining an established clinical team at a pivotal moment - St Catherine’s being recognised as a University Hospice (one of only 4 we know about in the UK). This creates even more opportunities for placements at the hospice, staff development, and research and innovation, to improve palliative You will be contractually employed by LTHTR, but via service level agreement will work as St Catherines Hospice, and will be supported in continued professional development
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties to include but not be limited to:
1. Effective communication of sometimes distressing information to service users and carers, concerning diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plans
·Effective often complex verbal and non-verbal communication within the wider MDT
2. Coordination and organisation of effective MDT communications
3. Own appraisal and Personal Development Plans are completed as per Trust Policy
4. Demonstration of a commitment to independent learning including an up to date and expert knowledge of professional practice
5. Implementation of Trust/Hospice Infection Control procedures including assurance of implementation within the team
6. Management of clinical and physical risk within own service user caseload and support provided for other staff and students to do so
7. Practice within RCOT Scope of Practice and Professional Code of Conduct
yPlease see the job description for more information.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
8. H.P.C. Registration
9. Occupational Therapy degree/diploma
10. Clinical Educator
11. Leadership or management training or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
12. Member of a Professional Body
13. Educated to masters level
14. Continuous improvement/transformation training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
15. Evidence of leadership in service planning and development
16. Clinical expertise in the management of highly complex patients
17. Current knowledge of evidence based practice in this speciality
18. Breadth of clinical experience across a variety of settings.
19. Experience of clinical governance and application to practice and service delivery
20. Experience of leading audit
21. Knowledge of national, local and professional health service agendas
Desirable criteria
22. Clinical research abilities to help facilitate a research environment