Occupational Therapist Or Physiotherapist

Overview

Job summary At Birmingham Hospice, every patient you support is someone's parent, partner, friend, or neighbour. Through expert rehabilitation, symptom management and compassionate care, you will help people maximise their independence, achieve what matters most to them, and improve their quality of life. As part of our multidisciplinary team, you will work across hospice inpatient, outpatient and community services, supporting patients and families with complex needs and delivering holistic rehabilitation focused on what matters most to them.

Why Choose Birmingham Hospice?

Impact Beyond Measure Every assessment, intervention and conversation you have can make a meaningful difference to patients and those important to them.

Time to Care Deliver truly personalised care with the opportunity to build therapeutic relationships and focus on patient goals.

Develop Specialist Skills Gain valuable experience in palliative rehabilitation, symptom management, fatigue, breathlessness, functional assessment and adaptive approaches to care.

A Supportive Community Work alongside a skilled, compassionate multidisciplinary team that values collaboration, innovation and professional development.

What You will Do

• Deliver specialist Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy assessment and intervention for patients with life-limiting illnesses.
• Support patients across hospice, outpatient, community and home settings.

Main duties of the job

• Promote independence, function, wellbeing and quality of life through personalised rehabilitation.
• Support symptom management for fatigue, breathlessness, mobility and functional challenges.
• Work collaboratively with patients, families, carers and the multidisciplinary team.
• Maintain HCPC and professional body standards.

What We re Looking For

• Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy.
• Current HCPC registration.
• Membership of RCOT or CSP, as appropriate.
• Minimum Band 5 post-registration clinical experience, or equivalent.
• Excellent communication, assessment and clinical reasoning skills.
• Able to work independently and within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in rehabilitation, community, long-term conditions, neurology, respiratory, older people s or palliative care is advantageous.
• A positive attitude, adaptability and willingness to learn.
• Full UK driving licence and business-use vehicle access.

What We Offer

• A rewarding role where your expertise makes a difference daily.
• Specialist experience in palliative and end-of-life care.
• Supportive supervision and development opportunities.
• Recognition of relevant NHS and hospice service for annual leave and pension.
• An inclusive, welcoming culture.
• Work for a respected local charity supporting Birmingham communities.

About us

Birmingham Hospice provides expert palliative and end of life care for people and their families living with life-limiting illnesses. We believe that all people in Birmingham should have access to the best specialist care and support - when, where and how they need it. Our vision is a future where everyone with a life-limiting illness will live and die with dignity and in comfort.

Our mission is to enable more people from all communities to access the care of their choice at the end of life. During a recent CQC inspection our sites have been rated outstanding, with independent health care regulators highlighting that colleagues and services are caring, responsive and well-led. Our outstanding teams are passionate about providing the very best care, and patients and their loved ones are at the heart of everything we do.

Our values of kindness, respect, innovation, togetherness, positivity and openness are at the centre of who we are, what we do and how we behave. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive, welcoming, caring and supportive team. We are offering a competitive salary, with generous holiday allowance, a contribution pension scheme, and a commitment to investing in our people through employee benefits and ongoing professional development.

Job responsibilities

Happy to talk about flexible working

Job title: Band 6 Occupational Therapist / Physiotherapist

Department: AHP

Hospice band: 6

Reports to: Therapies Lead

Responsible for: n/a

DBS required: Enhanced

Job purpose

The main purpose of this post is to provide Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy input, as part of a Specialist Multi-disciplinary Team, to patients referred for specialist palliative and end-of-life care. The post holder will work within their professional scope of practice to complete assessment and deliver symptom management and person-centred interventions. With a focus on maximising independence, function, quality of life and participation in meaningful activities.

This role is across our inpatient unit, Living Well Centre and Community settings.

Main duties and responsibilities

CLINICAL PATIENT SERVICES

• To provide responsive, specialist Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy services to patients under the care of the Hospice in accordance with priorities set by the…