Occupational Therapist

About the role

To provide an evidence based Occupational Therapy (OT) service to the palliative care patients at home and IPU. Focusing on adaptation, enablement, rehabilitation and therapeutic interventions. To assist in the development and evaluation of the OT service. To work autonomously with the Southern Hospice Group team to contribute to exemplary care for patients and their families. To be a resource and support to other hospice staff and community professionals by offering OT knowledge and skills.

You'll be

• As part of the multi-professional team, carry out holistic assessment of patients in a variety of settings and offer specialist palliative care provision accordingly.
• To undertake OT assessment, addressing the patients’ physical, psychological and functional skills.
• Identify the abilities and needs of patients and plan, implement and evaluate appropriate care.
• To help patients define their goals and engage them in a treatment/support programme to work towards mutually agreed goals.
• Through the provisions of direct intervention, teach specific symptom and lifestyle management techniques (e.g. for pain, relaxation, anxiety, breathlessness and fatigue).
• To assess for and provide appropriate equipment and appliances, working in conjunction with statutory services.
• To provide advice and support to patients, their family and other carers, teaching and demonstrating the use of equipment
• Ensure professional standards set by the Health and Care Professions Council and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists are met and ensure professional and legal accountability

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About us

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.

Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.

Benefits

• Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
• Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• On-site education support and study leave opportunities
• Option to access Medicash and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
• Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
• Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in Service

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Your application and interview should give us an accurate and authentic picture of your skills and experiences. Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Before you submit an application, we will ask you to confirm the information you provide is true and accurate. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

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