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Specialist Physiotherapist
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JOB TITLE: Specialised Physiotherapist
SALARY: £18,669 – £22,481 plus HCA (£37,338 – £44,962 FTE plus HCA )
HOURS: 18.75 Hours per week (0.5 WTE), 1-year fixed term contract to cover Maternity leave
We are looking for an ambitious, motivated and experienced Physiotherapist to join our dynamic and forward-thinking rehabilitation team at St Christopher’s.
Your rolewill be responsible for providing and delivering person-centred, holistic rehabilitation to palliative care patients including those with cancer, long term neurological and other progressive life-limiting conditions other than cancer such as COPD and heart failure. You will be responsible for providing expert and skilled rehabilitation by undertaking holistic, specialist assessments of people’s goals and needs, and developing dynamic treatment plans. You will implement and deliver excellent treatments including both group and individual sessions to patients focusing on maximising function and engagement with their lives. This role will have opportunities to work in a number of settings including out-patients at both our sites including our gyms, our in-patient unit and in patients own homes.
To succeed in this role you will be a person-centred therapist with sound clinical reasoning skills and the ability to deliver therapeutic, rehabilitation interventions across a complex patient caseload. You will have experience across core areas of clinical practice and have advanced communication skills.
What you will get in return is a stimulating and rewarding career with an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives and experiences of people living with life limiting and terminal illness. In addition, you will benefit from access to some excellent training and development opportunities, a number of staff health and wellbeing schemes, a competitive contributory pension scheme and Life Assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan.
Closing date: 16th March 2025
Interview date: 25th March 2025
