Multidisciplinary Team Assistant

Are you a Healthcare Assistant, Occupational Therapy, or Physio Assistant looking for a role within the community?

St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Multi-Disciplinary Team Assistant (MDTA) to join their team.

Our MDTAs support with providing person-centered support, care and treatment to patients, their families and carers across the community who have palliative and end of life care needs.

Role Details

• Salary: £28461.48 per annum
• Contract: Full time (37.5 hours), Permanent
• Location: Yeovil

We offer a pay progression pathway which aligns with increasing knowledge, skill and leadership. You will also receive the following unsocial hours payments:

• 30% for all time on a Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any weekday after 8pm and before 6am.
• 60% for all time on a Sunday and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight).

What can you expect to be doing? 

Working within the community, your day to day work will include: 

• Assessing non-complex symptoms which may include pain, shortness of breath, mobility, pressure risk, continence and psychological factors. 
• Analysing this information and carrying out non-complex interventions within own scope of practice or refering on to specialists as needed.
• Supporting the work of qualified practitioners (including Registered Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Clinical Nurse Specialists). 

What will you be good at? 

You will:

• Have experience as a health care assistant or physiotherapy/occupational therapy assistant, within a clinical environment.
• Be confident in contributing to the multi- disciplinary plan of care for patients, families, and carers for whom the post holder has delegated responsibility.

The role will require travelling across Somerset including into rural communities and working unsocial hours, evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.

What can we offer you?

You won’t just be joining a fantastic team – you’ll be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families.

If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you’re looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.

Holiday entitlement

• 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Pension scheme

• NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme*
• Non-NHS employees will receive 6% employer and 5% employee contribution.

Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering:

• Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
• Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management
• Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
• Counselling and support
• Legal, financial, and medical information and advice 

And more…

• Life assurance cover – 2x salary
• Health Cash Plans - help with covering the cost of healthcare needs by providing cashback on a range of health benefits
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Enhanced maternity leave*
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
• Volunteering and fundraising opportunities

*Eligibility criteria applies

If you want to get to know our team or have a chat before applying, we'd love to hear from you. Just reach out to Colleen Gagg – Countywide Team Lead on Colleen.gagg@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk

We are currently managing the recruitment process in-house and kindly ask that recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us with candidates for this role.

For any questions about our recruitment process, please contact Recruitment@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk. 

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact us for a chat if there's anything you want to talk about before you apply.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time. 

If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We can't wait to hear from you!

Closing date: 19th May 2026

DBS Information

This role requires a criminal background check via the disclosure procedure.

The Disclosure and Barring Service offers a confidential checking service for transgender applicants. This route gives applicants the choice not to have any gender or name information disclosed on their DBS certificate and is available for all levels of DBS check.