Position Overview & Specifications

Mount Edgcumbe Hospice Porthpean Road St Austell PL26 6AB £36,640.50 pro rata per annum rising to £38,454.00 pro rata per annum after completion of probation 30 per week February 7th, 2023

Cornwall Hospice Care is looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Physiotherapist to be based at our hospice in St Austell. You will need to remain flexible to work between Hayle site and community Hubs.

Our purpose is to make every day the best day possible for our patients and their families in Cornwall.

You will use specialist skills to provide a holistic palliative Physiotherapy service for inpatients (and outpatients when required). The emphasis being on Function, frequently compromised by symptoms including breathlessness, fatigue, anxiety and pain; Rehabilitation and Enablement, empowering patients to have maximum choice and control over their own lives; Person Centred Goal Setting, identifying and addressing patient’s priorities and maintaining quality of life and independence within the specialist palliative care setting.

This post offers the opportunity to work with a highly specialist multi-disciplinary team providing care and support for people with cancer and other life limiting illnesses. Your hours can be flexible to accommodate a balance between work and personal life in beautiful Cornwall.

You will have the opportunity and be encouraged to innovate and to try new things. Our scope of work and our confident organisational vision creates opportunities for progress and development. We work together in an environment where people are caring, considerate, inclusive and welcoming. It can be hard some days, we won’t hide away from it, but you will see clearly the impact and the important work you do and feel recognised and part of something that really makes the difference.

You will have held your own caseload, have excellent communication and planning skills, with a diploma or degree in Physiotherapy and be MCSP/HCPC Registered.

Working for us

Our employees and volunteers are essential to the care we provide. In return, for joining a team of people having such a positive impact on others, we provide:

A chance to make a real difference
Supportive working environment
Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
Generous annual leave entitlement of 36 days including bank holidays (pro-rata), which increases with service and the option to buy or sell leave.
Contributory pension scheme
Life Assurance
Non-contributory medical cash plan, with the option to include your family members
Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced sick pay scheme
EarlyPay Scheme