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Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapist Mount Edgcumbe Hospice
One permanent post based at Mount Edgcumbe Hospice, St Austell, with frequent opportunity to spend time at St Julia’s Hospice, Hayle.
An exciting opportunity is available to join the team, Cornwall Hospice is looking for a skilled, enthusiastic and highly motivated Occupational Therapist to be based at our hospice in St Austell. You will need to remain flexible to work between the St Austell and Hayle inpatient hospices with the possibility of outreaching to community settings and the home environment.
At Cornwall Hospice, we believe every moment matters. Our care is about more than comfort – it’s about helping people live fully, with dignity and peace.
The Role
You will use specialist skills to provide a holistic palliative Occupational Therapy service. The emphasis being on Function, frequently compromised by symptoms including breathlessness, fatigue, anxiety and pain; Rehabilitation and Enablement, empowering patients to have maximum choice and control over their own lives; Person Centred Goal Setting, identifying and addressing patient’s priorities and maintaining quality of life and independence within the specialist palliative care setting.
The candidate will have experience in holding their own caseload and have had worked within a ward environment including working with the multi-disciplinary team. The candidate should also have previous experience in oncology/haematology, or palliative care, however experience working within rehabilitation, management of long-term conditions and symptom control would also be desirable. A degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy along with HCPC registration is also essential.
This post offers the opportunity to work with a highly specialist multi-disciplinary team providing care and support for people with a wide range of palliative conditions and other life limiting illnesses. This includes working closely alongside a therapy assistant, a Physiotherapist, a complimentary therapist and counsellors and offers opportunities for resilience based clinical supervision. Your hours can be flexible to accommodate a balance between work and personal life in beautiful Cornwall.
You will have the opportunity and be encouraged to work as an innovative autonomous practitioner. Our scope of work and our confident organisational vision creates opportunities for progress and development. We work together in an environment where people are caring, considerate, inclusive and welcoming. It can be hard some days, but you will experience and see clearly the impact and the important work you do and feel recognised and part of something that really makes the difference. Our purpose is to provide compassionate, specialised end of life care for patients, their families and carers. Together with our local community in Cornwall we will continue to make every day matter.
Please get in touch for further questions, information, or to come and meet the team.
Contact name and email:
Dani Cavell (Occupational Therapist and Patient and Family Support Team Lead) based at St Julia’s Hospice, Hayle), email: dcavell@cornwallhospice.org
Please visit: https://www.cornwallhospice.co.uk for further information about Cornwall Hospice
“My friend was nursed so well, and had every attention during his last days. He twice asked me; who is paying for all this? and couldn’t believe it was free. What a wonderful world it would be if everyone had access to this standard of care.”
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Working for us
Our employees and volunteers are essential to the care we provide. In return, for joining a team of people having such a positive impact on others, we provide:
- A chance to make a real difference
- Supportive working environment
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 35 days including bank holidays (pro-rata), and the option to buy or sell leave
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Non-contributory medical cash plan, with the option to include your family members
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced sick pay scheme
Closing date: Sunday 15th March 2026
Interview date: Friday 20th March 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early
For more information or help call our HR Team on 01726 65711
