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.

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.

We encourage enquiries for an informal discussion please contact Siobhan Macquillan on [email protected]  

Working for our organisation

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 collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.