Physiotherapist
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,414.00 to £40,888.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £32414.00 - £40888.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Taunton, TA1 5HA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0386-24-0019 |
Summary
The Specialist Physiotherapist at St. Margarets is a specialist practitioner with extensive knowledge, skills and competency to manage a complex caseload of patients with advanced, progressive life limiting disease. You 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. You will be based in the Therapy Team working as an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team in the Hospice and in the community. You 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. You will take responsibility for your 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. You will be instrumental in the training and development of more junior and support staff.