Posted 13 days ago
Senior Occupational Therapist
@ Community Hospice
Canada
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Overview
Community Hospice is hiring a Senior Occupational Therapist for its Rehabilitation & Wellbeing Team, working across inpatient, outpatient and home settings for people with terminal illness. The role involves assessing functional needs, planning person-centred interventions, supporting discharge home and guiding assistants and volunteers. The posting requires HCPC registration and RCOT membership, and states the role is full time.
Responsibilities:
- Assess functional needs and plan occupational therapy interventions
- Support people to maintain daily routines and meaningful activities
- Adapt everyday tasks and arrange equipment, including for discharge home
- Work with families, carers and the multidisciplinary team
- Guide and support assistants, volunteers and students
Requirements summary:
- Qualified Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration
- RCOT membership
- Experience with complex healthcare or rehabilitation needs
- Excellent communication skills with patients, families and carers
- Ability to manage own caseload
- Hospice or palliative care experience helpful but not essential
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-01
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Allied health |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: minimal |
| Work setting | Hospital or clinic, Client sites, Home |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | HCPC registration, RCOT membership |
| Perks mentioned | Paid training |
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Community Hospice
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1 |
Job description
We’re hiring: Senior Occupational Therapist – Help people keep doing what matters to them
Would you like to use your occupational therapy skills in a role where each person’s goals shape the care you provide?
We’re looking for a compassionate, motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Rehabilitation & Wellbeing Team. If you enjoy finding practical, creative ways to help people maintain independence, manage change and stay connected to everyday life, we’d love to hear from you.
At Community Hospice, we’re a well-respected local charity providing high-quality care for people living with a terminal illness. Our Rehabilitation & Wellbeing Team helps people live as well as possible, for as long as possible, with a focus on what matters most to each individual.
This is a varied role across our inpatient unit, outpatient services and patients’ homes. You’ll work closely with our physiotherapist, rehabilitation and wellbeing assistants, nurses and wider multidisciplinary team, bringing specialist occupational therapy expertise to people with complex and changing needs.
You’ll support people to maintain daily routines, participate in meaningful activities and manage the impact of their illness. From adapting everyday tasks and arranging equipment to supporting discharge home and working with families and carers, your input will help people retain choice, confidence and independence.
Alongside your clinical work, you’ll guide and support assistants and volunteers, share your knowledge with colleagues and students, and contribute to developing our rehabilitation and wellbeing services.
What We’re Offering
We’d love to hear from you. Whether you already work in palliative care or want to bring your experience from another setting, this is an opportunity to make a lasting difference through the everyday things that matter most.
Come and bring your skills to a team where your occupational therapy perspective will be valued.
Closing date for applications: 17 November 2026
Interview date: 01 December 2026
Would you like to use your occupational therapy skills in a role where each person’s goals shape the care you provide?
We’re looking for a compassionate, motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Rehabilitation & Wellbeing Team. If you enjoy finding practical, creative ways to help people maintain independence, manage change and stay connected to everyday life, we’d love to hear from you.
At Community Hospice, we’re a well-respected local charity providing high-quality care for people living with a terminal illness. Our Rehabilitation & Wellbeing Team helps people live as well as possible, for as long as possible, with a focus on what matters most to each individual.
This is a varied role across our inpatient unit, outpatient services and patients’ homes. You’ll work closely with our physiotherapist, rehabilitation and wellbeing assistants, nurses and wider multidisciplinary team, bringing specialist occupational therapy expertise to people with complex and changing needs.
You’ll support people to maintain daily routines, participate in meaningful activities and manage the impact of their illness. From adapting everyday tasks and arranging equipment to supporting discharge home and working with families and carers, your input will help people retain choice, confidence and independence.
Alongside your clinical work, you’ll guide and support assistants and volunteers, share your knowledge with colleagues and students, and contribute to developing our rehabilitation and wellbeing services.
What We’re Offering
- A rewarding senior clinical role within a supportive and friendly team
- Varied work across inpatient, outpatient and community settings
- Opportunities to shape occupational therapy provision and contribute to service development
- Ongoing training, supervision and professional development
- A service that values creativity, compassion and person-centred rehabilitation
- A qualified Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration and RCOT membership
- Experience of supporting people with complex healthcare or rehabilitation needs
- Confidence in assessing functional needs, planning interventions and managing your own caseload
- A practical, adaptable approach to helping people achieve their goals
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work sensitively with patients, families and carers
- Someone who enjoys working collaboratively and supporting the development of others
- Experience in hospice or palliative care is helpful, but not essential
We’d love to hear from you. Whether you already work in palliative care or want to bring your experience from another setting, this is an opportunity to make a lasting difference through the everyday things that matter most.
Come and bring your skills to a team where your occupational therapy perspective will be valued.
Closing date for applications: 17 November 2026
Interview date: 01 December 2026
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