Physiotherapist

We have an exciting opportunity for a Physiotherapist in our Therapies Team at St Joseph's Hospice.

The Therapies Team consists of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Dietetics. You will work collaboratively with the team in seeing people as outpatients and in-patients, delivering specialist palliative rehabilitation and non-pharmacological symptom control interventions. You will also support the Empowered Living Team, a physiotherapy led, volunteer enabled service supporting patients in their own home.

Main duties of the job

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience of undertaking physiotherapy assessments
• Clinical reasoning skills necessary to tailor and adapt therapeutic interventions across a complex patient caseload
• Excellent team work skills and the ability to work collaboratively
• To be committed to patient centred, holistic, care with a focus on what matters most to the patient

Job responsibilities

• Undertake holistic physiotherapy assessments and interventions for patients with progressive and life limiting illness as an autonomous practitioner.
• Develop goal orientated rehabilitation programmes to support what matters most to the patient.
• Provide high-quality physiotherapy input to optimise non-pharmacological management of symptoms.
• Support and lead the Moving Forwards Rehabilitation Gym group, providing co-ordination and delivery of group exercise and gym activities.
• Conduct Empowered Living Team (ELT) assessments for outpatients.
• Assess on-going physiotherapy needs of patients, adapting therapy input as their condition changes.
• Be a source of physiotherapy expertise and champion palliative rehabilitation.
• Be responsible for managing own case load across inpatient, outpatient and day hospice settings, demonstrating flexibility to meet service and patient priorities.
• Maintain accurate and up to date clinical and non-clinical documentation, consistent with department documentation and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy standards.

Benefits

• 27 days holiday plus public holidays, increasing up to 33 days with service
• Subsidised cafe and early access to retail sale events
• Season ticket loans
• Continuation of NHS Pension Scheme or an excellent salary-exchange pension scheme
• Santander cycles discount and cycle to work scheme
• Health Cash Plan and access to the EAP services