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Title: Occupational Therapist
Salary: Marie Curie Clinical Pay Scale, aligned with AFC BAND 6 £37,831 - £46,100 pro rata per annum depending on candidate experience
Hours/Contract: 18.75 Hours a Week
Contract Type: Permanent
Based: Marie Curie Glasgow Hospice
Closing date: 19th January 2024
Interview date: TBC
This is an exciting and rare opportunity to join a busy, dynamic and supportive team as a qualified Occupational Therapist. The Marie Curie Hospice based in Glasgow provides specialist palliative and end of life care to individuals, and those important to them, in the inpatient unit, Wellbeing centre and in their own homes.
This is a key role and you will be responsible for the management and delivery of a high-quality Occupational Therapy service to patients with specialist palliative care needs.
You will work collaboratively as part of a highly specialist multidisciplinary team which provides holistic-centred care to patients with complex palliative care needs, with the emphasis on offering non-pharmacological symptom control, rehabilitation and promoting and maintaining independence and quality of life. The individualised assessment and treatment should support patients and carers to achieve the best possible level of function and quality of life irrespective of diagnosis or prognosis, empowering patients to set personal goals, assisting them to achieve these and enabling them to feel better and live well for longer.
You will manage your own caseload of complex cases with specialist needs, as an autonomous practitioner, demonstrating and evidencing high-level problem solving and reasoning skills and independence of judgement.
What we are looking for:
• BSc HONS in Occupational Therapy and current professional registration are essential.
• Substantial post-graduate experience
• Recent on-going professional development
• Highly developed communication, organisational and time management skills
• Strong IT skills and a flexible approach
What’s in it for you:
• Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Continuous development
• Industry leading training programmes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Working
For more information or an informal chat please contact our Allied Health Professional Manager Lorraine.walker@mariecurie.org.uk
Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
This role will be subject to receiving a satisfactory Enhanced criminal record check.
ABOUT US
Every day of your life matters – from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We’re a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left.
Everyone knows our daffodil, but it’s our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.
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JOB INFO
- Job Identification4977
- Job CategoryOccupational Therapy
- Posting Date29/11/2023, 09:10
- Apply Before19/01/2024, 23:59
- Job SchedulePart time
- Job ShiftDays
- Locations Glasgow Hospice