Senior Physiotherapist (Band 6) - Palliative Care

St Michaels Hospice; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Michaels Hospice in Hampshire is seeking a Physiotherapist to work autonomously within a forward-thinking multidisciplinary team, delivering specialist assessment, intervention and rehabilitation for people with progressive and life-limiting illness across inpatient, outpatient and community settings.

You will apply rehabilitative palliative care principles to maximise function, independence and quality of life, with opportunities to contribute to service development, audit and education

Qualifications

• Specialist physiotherapist role within palliative care.
• Experience with long-term conditions is desirable.
• Ability to work autonomously in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist physiotherapy assessment, intervention and rehabilitation across inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
• Contribute to service development, education, audit and quality improvement.

Job description

The successful candidate will work autonomously as part of a multi - disciplinary team providing specialist physiotherapy assessment, intervention and rehabilitation for people with progressive and life-limiting illness across inpatient, outpatients and community settings. The postholder will use specialist clinical reasoning and a rehabilitative palliative care approach to maximise function, independence, comfort, confidence and quality of life according to what matters to the patient.

There are opportunities to contribute to service development, including education, audit and continuous quality improvement. There are both internal and external training opportunities relevant to the role and the team networks with other Therapists working in Palliative Care.

St. Michaels Hospice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undergo relevant background checks, including a DBS check and provide satisfactory reference before starting the role.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

We are looking for a Physiotherapist with experience of working with people with long term conditions such as frailty, chronic lung conditions and cancer. You will be joining a forward thinking and progressive team who constantly strive to provide excellent Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy to our patients and develop the service considering available evidence and national guidance.

St. Michaels Hospice is a registered charity providing specialist palliative and end of life care services since 1992, for the people of North Hampshire. We are dedicated to providing care to people throughout North Hampshire who are affected by life limiting illness to attain the highest possible quality of life by providing a choice of specialist care and support.

As a charity, we depend on the kindness and support of our local community to continue offering our services free of charge. This care is made possible by supporters donating, taking part in fundraising events and activities, playing our lottery, shopping in our retail outlets, leaving gifts in their Wills or giving freely of their time to volunteer.