Lister Hospital is committed to working with the best people possible and as such offers a renumeration and benefits package for Occupational Therapists commensurate with experience and qualifications. Please visit the website for further information.
Position: Specialist Occupational Therapist
Location: Portland
Hours: Full Time
Salary Guide: £25,000 – £62,500
Last Updated: 26 May 2025
Job Category: Health & Medicine
Occupational Therapist Role:
An Occupational Therapist, or Physiotherapist is a healthcare worker who helps individuals with impairments, reach their career potential. Duties include evaluating patients, designing treatment plans and monitoring patients progress.
Other Duties:
- Identifying the set of activities and motivations that might help patients work towards their goals
- Helping people with disabilities perform different activities such as dressing, eating and walking
- Demonstrating exercises that could potentially help improve the patients conditions or relieve pain
- Evaluating the patients home and workplace environments in an effort to identify potential improvements to be made to improve their conditions
- Educating the patients families and friends about the right way to accommodate and care for them
- Recommending special equipment and medication, as well as instructing patients on how to use the equipment and take medications
- Documenting and assessing the patients activities and progress, as well as creating reports for billing and evaluations
- Generating reports for patients and their physicians and families
- Reporting a patients progress to Physicians and other healthcare providers
