Palliative Care Senior Occupational Therapist

Due to new developments an exciting opportunity has presented itself for a Senior Occupational Therapist specialising in Palliative Care to join the Palliative Therapy team at County Hospital.
Would you like to develop your clinical skills working within the palliative care field alongside your leadership and teaching skills? If so, come and join the Therapies team at the University of North Midlands NHS Trust.
This is a split post working between the local hospice and the acute hospital and therefore offers unique opportunities including:
+ Palliative medicine within the hospital -specialist ward as well as general medical wards
o Oncology conditions, fast track D/C planning & complex manual handling assessments & equipment provision.
o Long term life limiting conditions and challenging conversations.
o Palliative rehabilitation.
+ Katherine House hospice - located within the grounds of County Hospital.
o Autonomous working, managing own caseload, prioritising patients , flexible, working within inpatient unit, day services and community team.
o Facilitating interactive wellbeing Sessions with other MDT. members with fatigue management being particular focus for OT.
o Exciting opportunity to work on development of new wellbeing services for the local community., The post holder will have the opportunity to support and supervise Occupational Therapy students.
You will be part of a large combined therapies team, which can offer a wide range of learning and development opportunities. Supervision will be provided by an Advanced Therapist and continuous development is supported through appraisal, internal training and external learning.
Training opportunities across University Hospital of North Midlands include access to an on-site simulation training lab. Close links with Staffordshire, Coventry, Derbyshire and Keele universities for support with external learning, apprenticeships at level 6 and 7 and research support as well as internal in-service and journal clubs., 1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community.
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The University Hospital of North Midlands is located on 2 hospital sites, Royal stoke and County providing learning and development opportunities across a large therapies team. The Therapies team offers an excellent 7 day provision with staff working weekends and bank holidays.
The historic North Midlands, is an area that covers the beautiful county of Staffordshire, with the rugged Peak District to the east, the affluent Cheshire plain to the north, the rolling hills of Shropshire and the border of Wales to the west. The North Midlands has three designated conservation areas, Cannock Chase and the Shropshire Hills are Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, while the Peak District was the very first National Park and still one of only 10 across the whole of England.
UHNM sits in the centre of Staffordshire, with Derbyshire, Cheshire and Shropshire all within easy commuting distance. Across the region there are beautiful towns and villages surrounding the historic industrial city of Stoke-on-Trent and the county town of Stafford, where the Trust's hospitals are located.
If you do wish to escape this beautiful part of the world, the large metropolitan cities of Manchester and Birmingham are a stone's throw away, each with an international airport. With London just 80 minutes on the train down the west coast mainline, which serves both our hospitals, the North Midlands really, is the place to be to work and live., At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!