Occupational Therapist

East Cheshire Hospice is looking to recruit a new Occupational Therapist.

As a Hospice Occupational Therapist, you will play a vital role in supporting people with life-limiting conditions to live with dignity, comfort, and as much independence as possible. Working as part of a compassionate multidisciplinary team, you will assess individual needs and deliver personalised interventions that focus on enhancing quality of life, promoting meaningful activity, and enabling patients to achieve what matters most to them.

This is a deeply rewarding role where you clinical expertise and holistic approach will help patients and their families navigate physical, emotional, and practical challenges during end-of-life care.

• To work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team to help maintain and/or improve the persons quality of life. The emphasis being on rehabilitation, promoting and maintaining independence for patients diagnosed with a life-limiting illness.
• Deliver clinical support in the provision of high-quality Occupational Therapy services to patients accessing East Cheshire Hospice and those within the wider East Cheshire community.
• Provide high-quality clinical assessment and intervention, alongside delivering training and education to patients, carers, volunteers, and staff. Contribute to service development and support the monitoring and evaluation of outcomes through audit activity.

East Cheshire Hospice has been caring for people living with life-limiting illnesses since 1988.

We put our patients, their carers or families at the centre of everything we do, and our expert medical treatment is only the start of the holistic care we provide.

Our Hospice is a warm and welcoming place for everyone, no matter their background or beliefs. We provide compassionate care in a peaceful, supportive environment, where every individual is treated with dignity, kindness and respect.

Job purpose:

• To work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team to help maintain and/or improve the persons quality of life. The emphasis being on rehabilitation, promoting and maintaining independence for patients diagnosed with a life-limiting illness.
• Deliver clinical support in the provision of high-quality Occupational Therapy services to patients accessing East Cheshire Hospice and those within the wider East Cheshire community.
• Provide high-quality clinical assessment and intervention, alongside delivering training and education to patients, carers, volunteers, and staff. Contribute to service development and support the monitoring and evaluation of outcomes through audit activity.

• To provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy intervention to patients with specialist palliative and end-of-life care needs as necessary, individually or in groups.
• To autonomously manage a caseload of patients with generalist or complex palliative and end of life careneeds within the Hospice.
• Direct work with patients with diverse needs commonly including non-pharmacological symptom management of fatigue and breathlessness; rehabilitation; falls risk reduction. Holistic specialist assessment, goal setting and intervention for individual patients in the hospice in-patient unit, at Day Hospice, and in patients own homes.
• Assess and offer treatment that is focused on patient reported quality of life, maintains safety and achieves preferred place of care and death.
• Enable patients self-management including through delivery of patient education and relaxation to individuals and groups of patients.
• Understand and communicate complex information where emotional, social and spiritual needs are considerable.
• Use advanced verbal, and non-verbal communication skills to work with patients including those in distress and those who have difficulties understanding or communicating.
• Consultative role to advise colleagues, patients and carers.
• Contribute to risk assessments relating to equipment provision, falls prevention and discharge planning.
• Ensure the safe and effective assessment, prescription, and use of both standard and specialist equipment to meet patients needs in a timely manner.
• Maintain full compliance with Health and Safety regulations, including responsibility for all moving and handling considerations associated with the provision and use of this equipment.
• Work as a loan practitioner within the community with support from the MDT as required.
• Attendance at multidisciplinary team meetings and case conferences to enable integration of OT with other aspects of care.
• Coordinate patient-centred care with community, social services & hospital OTs and other members of the wider MDT.
• Use clinical assessment tools and outcome measures as required.
• Recognise the limits of own competency and professional boundaries and make appropriate and timely referrals to other services where required.
• Ensure that clinical records are up to date and maintained and stored appropriately in line…