Occupational Therapy

Location : Canterbury

Status : Permanent, Part-time, 19 hours per week

Salary : £19, £23,600 DOE (this is the pro rata equivalent of the full-time salary)

Closing date : 28/12/2025

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Do you have a background in assisting in Occupational Therapy ?

Do you want to develop your Occupational Therapist skills into a specialist role and be part of a pro-active multi-disciplinary and professional team, who put excellent patient care as their priority?

Are you passionate about supporting and empowering patients to live well until their very last moment in their life?

• Through holistic needs assessment
• Providing individually planned care informed by patient wishes
• Supporting patients and their families/carers to have open and honest conversations about their wishes for end-of-life care

If so, then the role of a Band 6 Occupational Therapy at Pilgrims may be just the job for you This role is a part time 19h per week based at Pilgrims Hospice Canterbury. Working pattern is Monday-Wednesday. Pay between £ – £23,600 depending on experience.

As a member of the wider clinical team, the successful candidate will be involved in assessing and developing appropriate plans of intervention and support for patients and their families, acting as a resource in providing advice on active palliative care management.

Key Duties:

• To assist qualified Therapy staff to deliver programmes of care for patients
• To monitor/order/maintain resources (ensuring adequate supply of all essential materials/equipment/resources) to support the Therapy Team in the provision of an efficient service.
• To independently deliver packages of care for clients in group or individual sessions as instructed by a therapist.
• To help train and support carers, in order for them to implement therapy advice effectively.
• To take part in quality governance, audits and projects for the team/service
• To contribute to, and provide feedback about, possible developments in the team
• To facilitate relevant professionals / carers to carry out therapy programmes / strategies / advice as instructed by the therapist.
• To move and handle clients, prepare work spaces & move equipment while observing correct manual handling techniques and following local procedures and guidelines.
• To organise timetable of therapy and appointments where required across arrange of settings

Recognising the need to support employees working within this particular field, we provide an extensive range of physical and psychological support measures through our health and wellbeing programme, to ensure your success, including:

• A supportive and friendly working environment
• Regular quality interactions with our clinical and medical teams
• Strong working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary teams
• Ongoing training and CPD/career development
• Access to a range of resources to ensure staff have access to help and support where and when they need it
• Regular self-care and development sessions

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.

"Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life".

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our organisational and charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our organisational behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision , we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our CODE , which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.

Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our hospices offer:

• Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments
• Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
• Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme
• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
• A sense of wellbeing
• A good work-life balance
• Locations across well-populated areas of east Kent – all providing very good road and rail links
• NHS and financial discounts i.e. Blue Light Card
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free hospice parking

We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice.

If you think this is your ideal role and want to join us and contribute to providing high quality patient care and support to those at the end of their life, please apply now.