# Senior Physiotherapist - St Michael's Hospice > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Wye Valley NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-physiotherapist-st-michaels-hospice/c40dec7c-ced8-4687-9444-4be79cce0456 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-physiotherapist-st-michaels-hospice/c40dec7c-ced8-4687-9444-4be79cce0456.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Wye Valley NHS Trust - **Location:** The County Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-08T08:15:11.405Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Herefordshire/Hereford/Wye_Valley_NHS_Trust/Physiotherapy/Physiotherapy-v8348605 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8348605?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services - Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment **Desirable** - Postgraduate experience working in Hospice or equivalent setting ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy - HCPC registered - Post Graduate specialist qualification/significant post graduate experience ### Skills, Knowledge & Abilities **Essential** - Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions - Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills - Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area - Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping ## Documents - [wvt benefits (pdf, 621.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1985) - [229-ic-7474909 jdps (pdf, 320.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10673752) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.