Bank Occupational Therapist

St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Bank Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our multi-disciplinary palliative care team. Working on a bank basis, you will receive £21.19 per hour.

You will work cross county, primarily in the west of Somerset, to deliver responsive care to patients with life limiting conditions. The majority of our patients are cared for at home and you will play a vital role in ensuring they have all the safe systems of equipment and adaptations to facilitate this, using person centred assessment of needs and risks, as well as Moving and Handling support plans.

What can you expect to be doing?

• We support palliative patients at all stages of their journey, from diagnosis to end stage disease, offering preventative, restorative, supportive and palliative rehabilitation and intervention – and you will be a key part of that.
• Paying attention to detail, you will tailor plans and advocate for what is important to them, helping them to achieve their goals and alleviate distress.

Your day-to-day role will involve:

• Supporting patients in a variety of settings; including in-patient, day centre and in their own homes.
• Using a holistic approach, you will undertake assessments as well as plan and deliver high quality patient care.
• Helping to evaluate and develop our services using your OT expertise.
• Working collaboratively with all members of the St Margaret’s hospice team and external agencies
• Supporting the safe discharge of patients from the in-patient unit.
• Part of this role also includes supporting and overseeing the OT related work of our support workers.

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?

We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be.

You will:

• Be a qualified Occupational Therapist and be registered with HCPC
• Have experience of working in a health and/or social care setting, preferably palliative care
• Be knowledgeable about issues relating to end of life, loss and bereavement
• Be continuously striving for high quality care for those we support
• Have excellent communication skills
• Have self-awareness and resilience skills
• This role will involve traveling across the county, including with equipment. As such travel is an essential requirement.

Benefits 

Be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you’re looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.

Holiday entitlement

• 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Pension scheme

• NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme
• Non-NHS employees will receive 5% employer and 5% employee contribution.

Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering:

• Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
• Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management
• Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
• Counselling and support
• Legal, financial, and medical information and advice 

And more…

• Life assurance cover – 2x salary
• Health Cash Plans - help with covering the cost of healthcare needs by providing cashback on a range of health benefits
• Blue Light Card – Discounts on retailers and restaurants saving up to 35%
• Enhanced parental leave
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
• Volunteering and fundraising opportunities