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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our established Complementary Therapy Team within the Nightingale Macmillan Unit. We are a 21 bedded specialist palliative medicine ward offering complex symptom management.
This rewarding role offers the opportunity to provide holistic, person-centred complementary therapies to palliative care patients, their relatives and carers.
Working alongside the wider multidisciplinary team, you will provide a range of therapies to promote relaxation and comfort and help support symptoms such as pain, anxiety and sleep disturbance.
Therapies may include Aromatherapy, Massage, Reflexology, Reiki, Relaxation and visualisation techniques and Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD).
Main duties of the job
- Deliver complementary therapy interventions tailored to the individual needs of patients, families and carers.
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate therapy programmes within a professional framework.
- Work collaboratively with specialist nursing, medical and community colleagues to provide holistic care.
- Prioritise referrals and manage your own caseload effectively.
- Support patients and their loved ones through what can often be challenging and emotional circumstances.
- Help develop and promote complementary therapies as an integral part of palliative care services.
Closing date of applications: 4 November 2026
Interview date: 18 November 2026
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
- On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
- We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
- An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
- Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
- Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
- We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
- We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
- UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Details
Date posted
27 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£28,392 to £31,157 a year Pro rata
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
2 years
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
320-CDCS-4416
Job locations
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3NE
United Kingdom
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