Job summary
Bank Physiotherapist
- Hours: Bank worker
- Location: Rennie Grove Peace Grove House, St Albans
- Salary: Rennie Grove Peace Band 6 (Bank) - £21.86 per hour
- Closing date: 13 February 2026 at 12 noon
- Interview date: TBC
This role will suit someone who
- Is passionate about providing high quality support for patients and families/carers through a palliative diagnosis.
- Fully understands the benefits and evidence base for a rehabilitative approach to palliative care.
- Interacts with patients and families/carers, with empathy and kindness.
- Can quickly build trusting, empathetic, and caring relationships with volunteers, customers, employees and head office teams, not forgetting local traders and the community.
- Is flexible and enjoys the variety of work in a fast-moving environment.
- Has good interpersonal skills
- Has strong organisational skills
Main duties of the job
- Ensure evidence-based practice and practice development across the patient pathway within the physiotherapy therapy service, the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and other partnership organisations.
- Provide specialised assessment and treatment for patients with complex needs and provide expert advice, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, carers and relatives and other non-professionals.
- Take a role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients.
- Provide support and advice to patients and their carers and professionals.
- Make appropriate referrals to the MDT, ensuring seamless service for patients.
- Provide specialist advice and education on all aspects of physiotherapy therapy management and rehabilitation for patients, relatives and health care professional.
About us
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, our unique care provides a lifeline of compassion and support to patients, carers, and families facing progressive life-limiting illness. We provide palliative and end of life care support, including bereavement services, within Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire and our patient services are available to adults, as well as patients transitioning into adult services (16 to 25 years.)
Bereavement support is offered for all ages to families of patients and those around them, as well as throughout the community, in schools and workplaces. We are proud to offer care in the place that best suits the individuals needs, whether that's at home, in a care home, in a short stay in our inpatient unit, out in the community, or in our purpose-built Living Well Centre facilities. As a hospice care charity, we have offered this support, free of charge, for over 40 years.
Our staff team of 340+ includes a wide range of patient-facing disciplines plus operational support based in Watford, Tring, St Albans, Chalfont St Giles and Berkhamsted. The Charity is now one of the larger UK hospice charities, reaching a GP population of 797,037 of whom 75% live in Hertfordshire and 25% in Buckinghamshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake comprehensive physiotherapy assessment and implementation of therapy intervention for patients with progressive and life-threatening diseases as an autonomous practitioner.
- This includes using analytical skills, clinical reasoning, and the use of appropriate outcome measures.
- Provide high quality physiotherapy input to optimise non-pharmacological management of symptoms including breathlessness and pain.
- Be a source of expertise, advocating non-pharmacological approaches to symptom control within the interdisciplinary team.
- Contribute to/lead and co-ordinate symptom specific group program such as the exercise groups and breathlessness and fatigue groups
Identify patients with complex clinical needs and draw upon support from the senior physiotherapist as indicated to ensure these are best managed.
- Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
- Be a source of physiotherapy expertise and champion rehabilitative palliative care practice across the interdisciplinary team providing advice on managing the patients functional ability and guide discharge planning.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake comprehensive physiotherapy assessment and implementation of therapy intervention for patients with progressive and life-threatening diseases as an autonomous practitioner.
- This includes using analytical skills, clinical reasoning, and the use of appropriate outcome measures.
- Provide high quality physiotherapy input to optimise non-pharmacological management of symptoms including breathlessness and pain.
- Be a source of expertise, advocating non-pharmacological approaches to symptom control within the interdisciplinary team.
- Contribute to/lead and co-ordinate symptom specific group program such as the exercise groups and breathlessness and fatigue groups
Identify patients with complex clinical needs and draw upon support from the senior physiotherapist as indicated to ensure these are best managed.
- Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
- Be a source of physiotherapy expertise and champion rehabilitative palliative care practice across the interdisciplinary team providing advice on managing the patients functional ability and guide discharge planning.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy, HCPC registration.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Advanced communication skills or willingness to work towards.
- Experience in a wide range of core clinical areas including Respiratory/Neurology/Medical/MSK/community.
- Evidence of CPD and reflective practice.
- Awareness of NSFs/ Local and National initiatives relating to palliative care.
- Critical appraisal skills
- A good understanding of technology with a working knowledge of Microsoft office packages ie Word, Excel and Outlook.
- To ensure that patient documentation is completed accurately using System One and paper records in accordance with professional standards, hospice policy and legal requirements.
- Commitment to the development and pursuit of palliative care knowledge.
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing and to build good working relationships.
- Good administrative and record keeping skills and able to work with good attention to detail.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Sensitivity and understanding to the needs of the volunteers and customers, many of whom may have experienced Rennie Grove Peace services or be bereaved themselves.
- Be a perfect match with our values.
Desirable
- Member of CSP or/and ACPOPC clinical interest group
- Previous experience and knowledge of working within the field of palliative care.
- Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.
- Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy, HCPC registration.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Advanced communication skills or willingness to work towards.
- Experience in a wide range of core clinical areas including Respiratory/Neurology/Medical/MSK/community.
- Evidence of CPD and reflective practice.
- Awareness of NSFs/ Local and National initiatives relating to palliative care.
- Critical appraisal skills
- A good understanding of technology with a working knowledge of Microsoft office packages ie Word, Excel and Outlook.
- To ensure that patient documentation is completed accurately using System One and paper records in accordance with professional standards, hospice policy and legal requirements.
- Commitment to the development and pursuit of palliative care knowledge.
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing and to build good working relationships.
- Good administrative and record keeping skills and able to work with good attention to detail.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Sensitivity and understanding to the needs of the volunteers and customers, many of whom may have experienced Rennie Grove Peace services or be bereaved themselves.
- Be a perfect match with our values.
Desirable
- Member of CSP or/and ACPOPC clinical interest group
- Previous experience and knowledge of working within the field of palliative care.
- Experience of leading and motivating teams of volunteers.
- Strong problem-solving skills and able to implement new initiatives.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
