Senior Physiotherapist - St Michael's Hospice

Wye Valley Nhs Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Hereford is seeking a Band 6 Physiotherapist to deliver high-quality rehabilitative palliative care at St Michael's Hospice. Ideal candidates will demonstrate clinical autonomy and work as part of a multidisciplinary team. Experience in palliative care is desirable. Join us for a rewarding role that offers a great work-life balance and a commitment to patient-centered care.

Benefits

Great work-life balance

Support to achieve full potential

Qualifications

• Experience in palliative care is desirable but not essential.
• Strong evidence of clinical reasoning and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to supervise and delegate tasks.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver specialist assessments and interventions.
• Manage own patient caseload with clinical autonomy.
• Contribute to service development and supervise teams.

Skills

Clinical autonomy

Strong communication skills

Organisational skills

Education

Band 6 Physiotherapist

Job description

Overview

What does rehabilitative palliative care mean to you? Does it mean enabling someone to live as well as they can, with independence within the limitations of their illness? Could you take on this challenge to support our patients in Herefordshire?

Working as part of the therapy and wider multidisciplinary team, Band 6 senior therapists use specialist skills in a variety of areas to provide direct high quality and effective therapeutic care and support to patients.

Responsibilities

• Independently plan, complete specialist assessment and deliver interventions.
• Independently manage own patient caseload, demonstrating clinical autonomy, specialist clinical reasoning, prioritisation and manage competing demands.
• Receive supervision from senior therapy staff, including formal training, supervised sessions, advice and support.
• Initiate and contribute to service development; demonstrate self-development; supervise others and delegate appropriate tasks to registered and non-registered staff.
• Participate in 7 day working and for physiotherapists to join the on call rota once competencies have been achieved.
• Maintain a clinical caseload of patients, providing specialist assessment and treatment as part of the multidisciplinary team within St Michael's Hospice, demonstrating clinical autonomy.
• Be approachable, forward thinking, innovative, with excellent communication and organisational skills.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Band 6 Physiotherapist; experience in palliative care is desirable but not essential.

Working Environment

Wye Valley NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to work at St Michael's Hospice Hereford. Based in the village of Bartestree, approximately 5 miles east of Hereford city, St Michael's Hospice has been providing care for the local community for coming up to 40 years. Rehabilitative palliative care is at the heart of our work at St Michael's.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys, and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. We are a progressive and forward-looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaboration with our partners to deliver high-quality care. More than 3,500 people work for the Trust.

What We Offer

We can offer a great work-life balance and support staff to achieve their full potential. Our values—Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence—are at the heart of all we do.