Senior / Occupational Therapist - #1098442

•  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.

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• Earliest availability date

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