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 to develop and implement appropriate individualized occupational therapeutic interventions to facilitate, restore, improve, or maintain movement/function.
• Devise patient-centric occupational therapeutic strategies to improve the quality of life of 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 programs 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 specialized patient cohorts.
• Supervise and direct activities of junior therapists/aides when appropriate.
• Liaise with the multidisciplinary team regarding patients' physiotherapeutic outcomes.
• Orient and provide on-the-job training to new staff, caregivers, and volunteers on their performance of duties and implementation of programs to ensure safe and effective communication/swallowing therapeutic treatment for patients.
• Participate in in-service education programs 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 the 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 preferred.

To apply, please submit your detailed CV with the following details for faster processing:

• Reason for leaving
• Expected salary
• Earliest availability date

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