Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

As a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will work within a multi-disciplinary team providing specialist advice and care to hospice patients and their families. Through holistic assessment, provide information, advice, psychosocial and spiritual care to patients with palliative and end of lifecare needs, supporting their families and carers, liaising and referring on as necessary to appropriate health and social care professionals. Work in partnership with those receiving care, helping them to access relevant health and social care, information and support when they need it. Support people to access, identify, appraise and interpret complex information, to enable them to determine their own future. Use advanced communication skills in delivering highly emotive information clearly, sensitively and unambiguously with staff, patients, families and professionals by face-to-face, telephone and/or electronic means. Work collaboratively as part of the multi-disciplinary team
(MDT)sharing the clinical caseload of patients/carers within the locality for patients who have complex palliative care needs to ensure efficient and timely care is delivered. To work as part of the MDT but also work autonomously making decisions and recommendations involving highly complex factors, seeking advice from colleagues or/and clinical leadership team when required, in order to make sound decisions around palliative and end of life care. To support management in training and mentoring a multidisciplinary workforce from novice to expert to work as one team. To support and implement any streamlined locality processes and services by embedding quality improvement methodology including clear outcome measures to produce efficient and highly performing community services. To support the Hospice inbuilding strong relationships with external partners and stakeholders and promote the good reputation of the Hospice e.g. local trusts, CCG, health and social care partners, businesses and