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Senior Occupational Therapist - Palliative Care
| Posting date: | 11 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 May 2025 |
| Location: | Wirral, CH49 5PE |
| Company: | Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7109179/408-25-336 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Palliative Care and Therapies Department as a full time Occupational Therapist (Band 6).
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and pro-active Occupational Therapist with post graduate experience in a range of core specialities with an interest in palliative care. You should have excellent communication skills, be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical reasoning illustrating that you are able to identify an individual’s functional impairments and implement appropriate evidence based intervention plans.
The successful candidate will also be expected to:
• Provide education to other AHPs to support them in meeting the needs of patients with palliative care needs.
• Provide direct support to relevant patients on the Supportive and Palliative Care caseload, for example in anxiety/fatigue management, palliative rehabilitation and support of patients and those who care for them in adapting to changes in function.
• Involvement and supporting the team in complex discharge planning, and in anticipating likely future functional trajectory for patients, to enable them to remain in their preferred place of care
• Involvement in complex case conferences to support discharge planning
• Provide education to ward teams in these aspects of care
• Build strong links with AHPs in hospice and community settings, to facilitate continuity of rehabilitation approach
• Build links with professional specialist interest groups
You will be supported by senior staff within the palliative care multi-disciplinary team as well as support from the Therapy Services
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Senior Occupational Therapist position available at WUTH.
This advert closes on Sunday 27 Apr 2025
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Palliative Care and Therapies Department as a full time Occupational Therapist (Band 6).
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and pro-active Occupational Therapist with post graduate experience in a range of core specialities with an interest in palliative care. You should have excellent communication skills, be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical reasoning illustrating that you are able to identify an individual’s functional impairments and implement appropriate evidence based intervention plans.
The successful candidate will also be expected to:
• Provide education to other AHPs to support them in meeting the needs of patients with palliative care needs.
• Provide direct support to relevant patients on the Supportive and Palliative Care caseload, for example in anxiety/fatigue management, palliative rehabilitation and support of patients and those who care for them in adapting to changes in function.
• Involvement and supporting the team in complex discharge planning, and in anticipating likely future functional trajectory for patients, to enable them to remain in their preferred place of care
• Involvement in complex case conferences to support discharge planning
• Provide education to ward teams in these aspects of care
• Build strong links with AHPs in hospice and community settings, to facilitate continuity of rehabilitation approach
• Build links with professional specialist interest groups
You will be supported by senior staff within the palliative care multi-disciplinary team as well as support from the Therapy Services
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Senior Occupational Therapist position available at WUTH.
This advert closes on Sunday 27 Apr 2025
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