Senior Occupational Therapist

This is an exciting opportunity to join St Catherines Hospice as a Senior Occupational Therapist, working within a supportive, multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing outstanding, person centred care to patients and those important to them. Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist who is passionate about end of life care? Would you find it rewarding to deliver specialist OT interventions across hospice services, including the Inpatient Unit, community settings and the Wellbeing Centre?

Main duties of the job:

• We are seeking a confident, skilled Occupational Therapist to lead our team and to support patients to maintain comfort, function and quality of life.
• This post is offered on a permanent basis, working full time or part time hours starting from 27 hours per week up to 37.5 hours per week.
• Please note, the successful candidate will be an essential car user, therefore candidates must have a full driving licence and access to a vehicle.

About us:

St Catherines Hospice is a respected local charity providing specialist hospice care alongside statutory service partners (GPs, District nursing etc) across West Sussex and East Surrey. We provide care in communities across Surrey and Sussex which are richly diverse and we want to reflect that in everything we do. We celebrate and support difference and welcome applications from all backgrounds. If you believe in the importance of what we do, share our values and want to be a part of an outstanding team building something important, we'd love to hear from you.

Employees at St Catherines Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with length of service, plus Bank Holidays, and an opportunity to buy/sell annual leave days.
• A day off for volunteering & moving house.
• Generous Pension scheme with up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension.
• Life Assurance Scheme, Counselling Offering, and a range of discounts.
• Enhanced maternity and adoption pay.

Job responsibilities:

• Senior Occupational Therapist will bring:
• Advanced clinical knowledge of palliative and end of life care
• Confident and effective communication and leadership skills
• Ability to support and motivate your team in a positive and professional working environment
• Assessing patient needs, planning and delivering responsive holistic patient centred care

Person Specification:

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years post registration experience
• Experience of working with palliative care, oncology, neurology, community or care of the elderly patients.
• Sound knowledge and application of Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions
• Ability to plan, implement and evaluate care
• Specialist palliative care experience
• Formal presentation and teaching skills
• Team leadership experience

Qualifications:

• Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
• State Registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of recent post registration education
• Member of Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT)
• Current driving licence and use of a car

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.