Job summary
If you have a passion
for palliative rehabilitation, and a bold, innovative, creative approach to
clinical and service delivery, then this is the perfect career development opportunity
and chance to join our Rehabilitation team for the year.
At Mountbatten we are looking for an
individual who will provide skilled Occupational Therapy input and promote a
philosophy of empowerment and enablement via collaborative working and
motivating others.
About You
You will be a skilled Occupational Therapist (or a very
experienced Band 4 Rehabilitation Assistant), with experience of working in a
variety of settings. You will have excellent clinical, administration, and team-working
skills.
Utilising your experience, you will exercise complex levels of
judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care. You will be able to
demonstrate therapeutic skills to identify, assess, treat, and manage people
affected by life limiting disease. Flexibility and creative thinking are key to
the role.
You will have high levels of personal resilience and the ability
to work to deadlines with the ability to concentrate on the most complex and
challenging issues.
This post is fixed term for 12 months.
To start as soon as possible, the ideal work pattern being 22.5 hours worked over three days between Monday and
Friday.
However, we are willing to
discuss alternative arrangements for the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide a specialist and skilled Occupational
Therapy service to patients under the care of Mountbatten Hospice,
predominantly across our Inpatient unit, but also including the outpatient
department and community.
Key tasks include:
Undertaking holistic Occupational
Therapy assessment and treatment of inpatients and outpatients with complex,
life limiting conditions as an autonomous practitioner, focusing on what
matters to the individual and optimising function to maximise quality of
life.
Working as part of the
multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective communication and delivery of care
to meet identified need.
Maintaining effective
communication with patients, carers and colleagues.
Promoting and being an advocate for palliative rehabilitation and
enablement across the services, supporting colleagues to adopt a positive
risk-taking approach.
About us
At Mountbatten making our employees feel valued is as important to us as making sure that our patients are safe. We are looking for people that live our values to help us make a difference to the thousands of patients and their families who come to us for help and support every year.
Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those close to them, have access to expert care of the highest quality, provided by compassionate and professional teams.
Our Values
We care about what we do. We appreciate that people are different and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local community and to each other
We are experts in our field. We are professional at all times, aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do
We are innovative and bold. We respond quickly and creatively to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and financial resources
We respect our community. We exist for our local population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more together by working in partnership with others
Job description
Job responsibilities
To
perform Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse palliative
care needs. To provide, develop and deliver individualised treatment
programmes, and to undertake these tasks as an autonomous practitioner, with
support from senior colleagues in particularly complex cases.
Maintain a focus on optimising patients functional and
self-management abilities and enabling them with what matters most to them,
through tailored and appropriate rehabilitation, plus collaboration with
rehabilitation colleagues.
To facilitate and promote a palliative
rehabilitation and enablement philosophy and approach within the Hospice
throughout the organisation and to other health and social care providers.
Alongside colleagues, coordinate and develop the day
to day operation of the Hospices Rehabilitation Team.
Act as an Occupational Therapy resource; providing
advice, education, and support to members of the Hospice Multidisciplinary Team
(MDT) and Health and Social Care teams.
Provide moving and handling advice and support to
staff, volunteers and patients relatives at the Hospice.
Continually develop own knowledge and skills,
accessing internal education opportunities plus self-led learning.
*Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full requirements of this role*
Job description
Job responsibilities
To
perform Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse palliative
care needs. To provide, develop and deliver individualised treatment
programmes, and to undertake these tasks as an autonomous practitioner, with
support from senior colleagues in particularly complex cases.
Maintain a focus on optimising patients functional and
self-management abilities and enabling them with what matters most to them,
through tailored and appropriate rehabilitation, plus collaboration with
rehabilitation colleagues.
To facilitate and promote a palliative
rehabilitation and enablement philosophy and approach within the Hospice
throughout the organisation and to other health and social care providers.
Alongside colleagues, coordinate and develop the day
to day operation of the Hospices Rehabilitation Team.
Act as an Occupational Therapy resource; providing
advice, education, and support to members of the Hospice Multidisciplinary Team
(MDT) and Health and Social Care teams.
Provide moving and handling advice and support to
staff, volunteers and patients relatives at the Hospice.
Continually develop own knowledge and skills,
accessing internal education opportunities plus self-led learning.
*Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full requirements of this role*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Current registration with Health Care Professional Council
- Continued Professional Development, including reflective practice, courses attended, clinical experience gained
Desirable
- Evidence of further post graduate accredited training
Other
Essential
- Current driving full licence and access to a vehicle for business use
- Willing to work flexible hours, if necessary, to meet the needs of the service
Skills
Essential
- Articulate and able to clearly record professional activity in patient records, reports, etc.
- Competent IT skills, including Microsoft office/outlook and PowerPoint
Experience
Essential
- Understanding of a palliative rehabilitative and enablement approach
- Clinical experience gained working within community/intermediate care/palliative care settings
Desirable
- Experience of running service user groups
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate well with service users in a sensitive and emphatic manner
- Ability to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
- Demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable manner using an empowering/enabling approach being sensitive to the needs of others
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Current registration with Health Care Professional Council
- Continued Professional Development, including reflective practice, courses attended, clinical experience gained
Desirable
- Evidence of further post graduate accredited training
Other
Essential
- Current driving full licence and access to a vehicle for business use
- Willing to work flexible hours, if necessary, to meet the needs of the service
Skills
Essential
- Articulate and able to clearly record professional activity in patient records, reports, etc.
- Competent IT skills, including Microsoft office/outlook and PowerPoint
Experience
Essential
- Understanding of a palliative rehabilitative and enablement approach
- Clinical experience gained working within community/intermediate care/palliative care settings
Desirable
- Experience of running service user groups
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate well with service users in a sensitive and emphatic manner
- Ability to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
- Demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable manner using an empowering/enabling approach being sensitive to the needs of others
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
