Complementary Therapist inCheadle inCheadle PUBLISHED THU 10 OCT 2024

Have you got what it takes?

• Are you an experienced Complementary Therapist with interest or skills in Palliative Care?
• Can you demonstrate the ability to work as an effective team member, managing competing priorities?
• You must be passionate about our patients and a collaborative colleague
• Most importantly, you must be wholeheartedly committed to and motived by the purpose and values of St Ann's Hospice.

It feels like a privilege to add value and quality to life when someone's days are short in the palliative phase of their illness.

Bobby Magee, Advanced Physiotherapist

As a Complementary Therapist, you will:

• Assess and Advise: Evaluate patients with complex needs, provide expert advice and develop personalised therapy plans.
• Tailor Treatments: Adapt therapies to meet individual patient needs
• Collaborate: Work collaboratively with our multidisciplinary team to ensure patients needs are met.
• Manage Referrals: Oversee the referral process to the complementary therapy service, ensuring appropriate allocation in conjunction with colleagues.
• Handle Caseloads: Manage the complementary therapy caseload with colleagues, ensuring timely patient reviews and treatments.
• Train and Educate: Organise, deliver, and evaluate training related to complementary therapy at the hospice to internal and external colleagues.
• Supervise Volunteers: Provide support and supervision to volunteer therapists, ensuring safe and effective patient care.

About us

The Complementary Therapist will:

• Assess patients with complex needs and provide advice, developing therapy plans and recording clinical notes accurately.
• Adapt therapies as appropriate to patient needs and be accountable for their own practice.
• Work as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide complimentary therapy advice and to ensure patients needs are met.
• Be responsible for managing the referrals to the complementary therapy service and appropriate allocation of these in conjunction with their peers.
• Manage the complementary therapy caseload with peers, ensuring patients are seen and reviewed in a timely manner.
• Organise, deliver and evaluate training in relation to complementary therapy at the hospice.
• Provide support and mentorship to volunteer therapists to ensure the needs of patients and their carers are met safely and effectively.
• Manage safe storage and stock levels of complementary therapy resources
• Act in accordance with hospice policies and guidelines.
• Actively participate in continued professional development and the hospice performance and development review programme.