Job summary
St Margarets Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Specialist Physiotherapist to join our team. This role is based in Taunton. You will join us on a permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £35,294 - £38,941 per annum. Although this is a full-time role, we understand that different ways of working suit different people which is why we are open to a part time working pattern, if that works better for you
Based in based in our multi-disciplinary Therapy Team, you will support patients in a variety of settings, including in-patient, outpatient, Day Centre or in their own homes. The service is for palliative patients at all stages of their journey, from diagnosis to end stage disease, offering preventative, restorative, supportive and palliative rehabilitation and intervention.
With ongoing investment in your professional and personal development, well help you to develop and enhance your existing skills, knowledge and experience. You will also have full access to in-service training and courses on and off site to support your CPD.
This is a hugely rewarding role. As well as the opportunity to develop new skills, you will be working in stimulating and positive working environment, with the satisfaction of supporting the St. Margarets team to help make each day count for individuals and families in Somerset.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Physiotherapist at St. Margaret’s is a specialist practitioner with extensive knowledge, skills and competency to manage a complex caseload of patients with advanced, progressive life limiting disease.
They will undertake the holistic assessment, planning and delivery of a consistently high standard of specialist palliative and supportive care in accordance with the hospice policy, procedures and standards.
The post-holder will be based in the Therapy Team working as an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team in the Hospice and in the community.
They will establish effective working relationships with all internal referrers and referrers from Primary and Secondary Health Care teams, and act as a resource for professionals and non- professionals involved in palliative care within the community.
They will take responsibility for own clinical caseload of complex patients working as an autonomous practitioner, without direct supervision. Supervision will be in the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
They will be instrumental in the training and development of more junior and support staff.
About us
You wont just be joining a fantastic team, you'll be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you're looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.
Job description
Job responsibilities
St Margarets Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Specialist Physiotherapist to join our team. This role is based in Taunton. You will join us on a permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £35,294 - £38,941 per annum. Although this is a full-time role, we understand that different ways of working suit different people which is why we are open to a part time working pattern, if that works better for you.
You wont just be joining a fantastic team you'll be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you're looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.
What can you expect to be doing?
Based in based in our multi-disciplinary Therapy Team, you will support patients in a variety of settings, including in-patient, outpatient, Day Centre or in their own homes. The service is for palliative patients at all stages of their journey, from diagnosis to end stage disease, offering preventative, restorative, supportive and palliative rehabilitation and intervention.
With ongoing investment in your professional and personal development, well help you to develop and enhance your existing skills, knowledge and experience. You will also have full access to in-service training and courses on and off site to support your CPD.
This is a hugely rewarding role. As well as the opportunity to develop new skills, you will be working in stimulating and positive working environment, with the satisfaction of supporting the St. Margarets team to help make each day count for individuals and families in Somerset.
Your day-to-day work will involve:
- Undertaking holistic assessments, planning and delivery of specialist palliative and supportive care to a consistently high standard.
- Contributing to the evaluation and development of services
- Autonomously managing a complex, clinical caseload.
- Assisting with the training and development of more junior and support staff.
We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. To help your application, we will be looking for the following Core Competencies and how you will use these help us put our values into practice.
Our Core Competencies for our Specialist Physiotherapist :
- Qualified Physiotherapist and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Self-awareness - Can demonstrate a clear understanding of palliative care and the needs of patients and families.
- Working with others - Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to liaise effectively with patients, the multidisciplinary team and across organisations and individuals at a range of levels.
- Outcomes and results - Can demonstrate sound clinical decision making in the assessment of patients and the implementation and evaluation of treatment plans plus patient centred short and long-term goals.
- Leading in your area - In-depth postgraduate experience or study of a range of relevant topics at post-graduate diploma level or equivalent.
Access to own transport is required to travel with equipment across the locality during a normal working day.
The position is suitable for someone with existing palliative care experience or a willingness to take on a developmental role with the opportunity for progression.
Further details on our competencies are included on the job pack attached to the advert.
We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact us for a chat if theres anything you want to talk about before you apply.
What can we offer you?
- Holiday entitlement
- 33 days holiday, including bank holidays, rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
- Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
- Pension Scheme
- NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme*
- Non-NHS employees will receive 5% employer and 5% employee contributions
- Life assurance cover 2x salary
- Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering:
- Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
- Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management
- Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
- Counselling and support
- Legal, financial, and medical information and advice
- Blue Light Card Discounts on retailers and restaurants saving up to 35%
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave*
- Excellent learning and development opportunities
- Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
- Volunteering and fundraising opportunities
*Eligibility criteria applies
If you want to get to know our team or have a chat before applying, wed love to hear from you. Just reach out to us at Karen Kidsley (Therapy and Day Service Lead West) on 01823 333822 or via email karen.kidsley@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk
For any questions about our recruitment process, please contact Recruitment@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk
If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We cant wait to hear from you!
Closing date: Sunday 14th Janaury 2024
Job description
Job responsibilities
St Margarets Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Specialist Physiotherapist to join our team. This role is based in Taunton. You will join us on a permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £35,294 - £38,941 per annum. Although this is a full-time role, we understand that different ways of working suit different people which is why we are open to a part time working pattern, if that works better for you.
You wont just be joining a fantastic team you'll be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you're looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.
What can you expect to be doing?
Based in based in our multi-disciplinary Therapy Team, you will support patients in a variety of settings, including in-patient, outpatient, Day Centre or in their own homes. The service is for palliative patients at all stages of their journey, from diagnosis to end stage disease, offering preventative, restorative, supportive and palliative rehabilitation and intervention.
With ongoing investment in your professional and personal development, well help you to develop and enhance your existing skills, knowledge and experience. You will also have full access to in-service training and courses on and off site to support your CPD.
This is a hugely rewarding role. As well as the opportunity to develop new skills, you will be working in stimulating and positive working environment, with the satisfaction of supporting the St. Margarets team to help make each day count for individuals and families in Somerset.
Your day-to-day work will involve:
- Undertaking holistic assessments, planning and delivery of specialist palliative and supportive care to a consistently high standard.
- Contributing to the evaluation and development of services
- Autonomously managing a complex, clinical caseload.
- Assisting with the training and development of more junior and support staff.
We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be. To help your application, we will be looking for the following Core Competencies and how you will use these help us put our values into practice.
Our Core Competencies for our Specialist Physiotherapist :
- Qualified Physiotherapist and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Self-awareness - Can demonstrate a clear understanding of palliative care and the needs of patients and families.
- Working with others - Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to liaise effectively with patients, the multidisciplinary team and across organisations and individuals at a range of levels.
- Outcomes and results - Can demonstrate sound clinical decision making in the assessment of patients and the implementation and evaluation of treatment plans plus patient centred short and long-term goals.
- Leading in your area - In-depth postgraduate experience or study of a range of relevant topics at post-graduate diploma level or equivalent.
Access to own transport is required to travel with equipment across the locality during a normal working day.
The position is suitable for someone with existing palliative care experience or a willingness to take on a developmental role with the opportunity for progression.
Further details on our competencies are included on the job pack attached to the advert.
We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact us for a chat if theres anything you want to talk about before you apply.
What can we offer you?
- Holiday entitlement
- 33 days holiday, including bank holidays, rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
- Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
- Pension Scheme
- NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme*
- Non-NHS employees will receive 5% employer and 5% employee contributions
- Life assurance cover 2x salary
- Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering:
- Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
- Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management
- Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
- Counselling and support
- Legal, financial, and medical information and advice
- Blue Light Card Discounts on retailers and restaurants saving up to 35%
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave*
- Excellent learning and development opportunities
- Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
- Volunteering and fundraising opportunities
*Eligibility criteria applies
If you want to get to know our team or have a chat before applying, wed love to hear from you. Just reach out to us at Karen Kidsley (Therapy and Day Service Lead West) on 01823 333822 or via email karen.kidsley@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk
For any questions about our recruitment process, please contact Recruitment@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk
If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We cant wait to hear from you!
Closing date: Sunday 14th Janaury 2024
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy or equivalent qualification.
- HCPC registration.
- Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy or equivalent body.
- Access to a car in order to undertake community, outreach and domiciliary work.
Desirable
- Recognised teaching qualification/ relevant teaching experience.
Self Awareness
Essential
- Ability to adapt to changing or conflicting priorities.
- Can demonstrate a clear understanding of palliative care and the needs of patients and families.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the role.
- Can deal sensitively and compassionately with patients who are impacted by pain, dementia, limited mobility or life-limiting illness.
Desirable
- Able to communicate effectively with people about difficult or sensitive topics and/or in difficult situations.
Working with others
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to liaise effectively with patients, the multidisciplinary team and across organisations and individuals at a range of levels.
Desirable
- Able to supervise junior staff and facilitate their development.
Outcome and Results
Essential
- Able to demonstrate sound clinical decision making in the assessment of patients and the implementation and evaluation of treatment plans plus patient centred short and long-term goals.
- To be computer literate.
- Ability to demonstrate effective caseload and workload management
Desirable
Leading in your area
Essential
- In-depth postgraduate experience or study of a range of relevant topics at post-graduate diploma level or equivalent.
- Demonstrable rotational experience across a broad range of specialties.
- Significant experience of multidisciplinary/multi-agency working
Desirable
- Experience of working with Palliative Care patients.
- Experience of additional techniques e.g. Acupuncture / TENS. Knowledge and/or experience of the principles of Rehabilitative Palliative Care
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy or equivalent qualification.
- HCPC registration.
- Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy or equivalent body.
- Access to a car in order to undertake community, outreach and domiciliary work.
Desirable
- Recognised teaching qualification/ relevant teaching experience.
Self Awareness
Essential
- Ability to adapt to changing or conflicting priorities.
- Can demonstrate a clear understanding of palliative care and the needs of patients and families.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of the role.
- Can deal sensitively and compassionately with patients who are impacted by pain, dementia, limited mobility or life-limiting illness.
Desirable
- Able to communicate effectively with people about difficult or sensitive topics and/or in difficult situations.
Working with others
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to liaise effectively with patients, the multidisciplinary team and across organisations and individuals at a range of levels.
Desirable
- Able to supervise junior staff and facilitate their development.
Outcome and Results
Essential
- Able to demonstrate sound clinical decision making in the assessment of patients and the implementation and evaluation of treatment plans plus patient centred short and long-term goals.
- To be computer literate.
- Ability to demonstrate effective caseload and workload management
Desirable
Leading in your area
Essential
- In-depth postgraduate experience or study of a range of relevant topics at post-graduate diploma level or equivalent.
- Demonstrable rotational experience across a broad range of specialties.
- Significant experience of multidisciplinary/multi-agency working
Desirable
- Experience of working with Palliative Care patients.
- Experience of additional techniques e.g. Acupuncture / TENS. Knowledge and/or experience of the principles of Rehabilitative Palliative Care
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
