Complementary Therapist in palliative care

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Complementary team at Hayward House. We are a small team of therapists who work closely within a highly committed specialist palliative care team., You will be responsible for your own caseload and supporting the wider MDT across both inpatient and outpatient services, this will include working in small groups and day therapy and contributing to ongoing development & evaluation of the services provided,

• To work with individuals to improve their quality of life in agreement with them, their families and carers.
• To provide complementary therapies to improve management of symptoms that may have a physical, social, spiritual or psychological cause.
• To provide complementary for families and carers.
• To liaise closely with the primary health care team and other agencies to ensure that the individual's family and carers needs are met and to promote continuity of care.
  
  Hayward house is a specialist palliative care unit based in the city hospital campus. We are looking to recruit an experienced Complementary therapist to join our existing team in our purpose built complementary therapy unit. You will be passionate about patient centred care and be able to respond sensitively to patient and carers needs., Work within unpleasant clinical working conditions (for example exposure to body fluids).
Concentrate in an intense and sometimes noisy environment. Cope with potentially violent and threatening situations Fulfil Trust health and Safety policies and procedures when performing risk associated procedures including dealing with hazardous substances