Complementary Therapist - Slough, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Slough, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To develop and provide a complementary therapy service that offers holistic and individually tailored care to Patient's and carers in the cancer setting (inpatients and outpatients) working primarily on Eden.

You will be responsible for the day to day organization of this service, working flexibly.

As the specialist provide advice and guidance to the Trust on the suitability and appropriateness of each type of complementary therapy in line with Thames Valley Cancer Network guidance on complementary and creative therapy.
As a practicing therapist, provide one or more therapies for patients and carers.
Undertake a formal assessment of referred patients/clients in accordance with previously agreed policies/protocols and throughout their care continuum to ensure the appropriate complementary care is provided according to need or change in condition.
Prioritise and manage complementary therapy referrals and coordinate the workload
Ensure a robust referral, assessment, review and discharge process is in place in order to effectively manage the service and patient outcomes including patient
Build relationships across the MDT's and work collaboratively across all areas to promote and develop the integration of
Work collaboratively with oncology and haematology teams to ensure that patients and their families/carers receive timely and appropriate complementary care in order to facilitate health, recovery, rehabilitation and/or a dignified death in any clinical facility within the hospital.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnelworkingalongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of this role.