Senior Physiotherapist - St Michael's Hospice

Job 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?

Wye Valley NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to work at St Michaels Hospice Hereford Covering Maternity Leave from January 2027.

Based in the beautiful village of Bartestree, approximately 5 miles east of Hereford city, St Michael’s Hospice has been providing the highest quality care, to the local community for coming up to 40 years. Rehabilitative palliative care is at the heart of our work at St Michael’s.

Working within a dynamic experienced multi-disciplinary team, we are in search for a band 6 physiotherapist to join our therapy team. Although the post holder must have a variety of physiotherapy skills and knowledge, palliative care experience is desirable but not essential. The post holder will maintain a clinical caseload of patients, providing specialist assessment and treatment of patients as part of the multi-disciplinary team within St Michael’s hospice, demonstrating clinical autonomy. You will need to be approachable, forward thinking, innovative and have excellent communication and organisational skills. Ongoing CPD is supported, and the successful candidate will play an active part in training, teaching and supervision in order to support their own professional development and others.

Main duties of the job

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.

Within the scope of the role, the post holder will independently plan, complete specialist assessment and deliver interventions. They will be responsible for independently managing their own patient caseload, demonstrating clinical autonomy, specialist clinical reasoning, prioritisation and manage competing demands. Supervision is clear and direct from senior therapy staff and includes formal training, supervised sessions, advice and support.

The post holder will initiate and contribute to service development, demonstrate self-development and will be responsible for supervision of others and delegate appropriate tasks to registered and non-registered staff. The band 6 senior therapist will be required to participate in 7 day working and for physiotherapists to join the on call rota once competencies have been achieved.

These posts will require you to have access to a car for work purposes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.