Senior / Occupational Therapist

• Palliative Care Provider
• North-East/Central Location
• Be Part of An Integrated Healthcare Team

Responsibilities:

• Assess and identify individual needs of patients so as to develop and implement appropriate individualised occupational therapeutic interventions to facilitate, restore, improve or maintain movement / function
• Devise patient-centric occupational therapeutic strategies to improve the quality of life of the patients
• Monitor and evaluate the intervention with appropriate outcome measures
• Document clinical examinations, diagnosis, treatment and outcome evaluations for follow-up actions
• Participate in early intervention programmes and public education forums / seminars
• Ensure a high standard of clinical practice and conduct, and participate actively in pursuing continual professional development
• Work independently in managing complex cases and be professionally accredited to perform physiotherapy interventions for specialised patient cohorts
• Supervise and direct activities of junior therapists / aides, when appropriate
• Liaise with multidisciplinary team regarding a patients physiotherapeutic outcomes
• Orientate and provide on the job training new staff, caregivers and volunteers on their performance of duties and implementation of programmes to ensure safe and effective communication / swallowing therapeutic treatment for patients
• Participate in in-service education programme and follow-up to ensure optimum transfer of learning
• Perform general duties such as monitoring the inventory of critical supplies, maintenance and replacement of speech therapy equipment
• Document all speech therapeutic interventions for record, within the expected time frame set by the department



Requirements:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited institution
• Must be fully registered with Allied Health Professions Council
• At least 3 years of experience in an acute hospital setting or VWO sector
• Bilingual and ability to communicate in local dialects preferably.



We regret that only short-listed candidates will be contacted shortly.