Highly Specialist Physiotherapist

Central London Community Health Trust

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced physiotherapist to join our specialist palliative care team. You will be working as a lone physiotherapist in a multidisciplinary team, promoting a high quality rehabilitative palliative care service that integrates rehabilitation, enablement, self-management and self-care into the holistic model of palliative care.

Pembridge is an NHS hospice, providing specialist palliative care to adult residents of a diverse central London area at home, as out-patients, and also virtually. We support people with progressive, life-limiting conditions such as cancer, heart failure and neurological disease, not just at the end-of-life phase but throughout their palliative journey.

If you can provide a flexible and holistic approach to palliative rehabilitation and have the ambition to develop the service, this post offers great opportunities. Please describe in your supporting statement how your skills and experience meet the person specification.

External supervision will be provided. Access to external courses and in house in-service training is also available.

This is a 16 month fixed-term maternity leave Band 7 post, effective from 11/11/24- 27/02/26.

If we do not find a suitable Band 7 candidate, we may reconsider this post to a Band 6, with support.

Main duties of the job

Undertake the comprehensive, specialist, physiotherapy assessment of adult patients with progressive and life-limiting diseases

Plan, implement and evaluate specialised individual physiotherapy management/treatment.

Provide holistic care with attention to patients' multifaceted needs including physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual

Be highly skilled in communicating with and supporting terminally ill patients, their families, formal and informal carers

Be a source of physiotherapy/rehabilitation expertise providing clinical leadership skills across the multidisciplinary team to encourage an organisation-wide rehabilitative approach to patient care

Provide a specialist physiotherapy service to optimise non-pharmacological management of symptoms including developing the service to include symptom-specific groups

Provide specialist advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other health and social care professionals both within the organisation and externally.

Assess for and organise the onward referral for specialist equipment for mobility/postural control to maximise independence and function, and instruct those working with the patient in the safe use of that equipment

About us

Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Date posted

24 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£54,320 to £60,981 a year per annum, inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

15 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

824-INNER-6735077

Job locations

Pembridge Palliative Care Centre

Exmoor Street

London

W10 6DZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc in Physiotherapy
Health Professions Council registered
Evidence of post registration study
Continuing Professional Development portfolio
Desire to attain advanced skills

Desirable

Additional training in palliative care or oncology
Training in communication skills
Registered with Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Experience

Essential

At least 5 years post qualifying physiotherapist experience in a multi-disciplinary health setting including working with palliative and end of life patients
Evidence of post graduate study/relevant CPD activities
Supervision and training of junior staff, assistants and students
Complex caseload management
Participated in audit/research project
Experience of working within ethnically and culturally diverse communities.

Desirable

Experience of lone working
Experience of teaching.
Experience of supervising staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc in Physiotherapy
Health Professions Council registered
Evidence of post registration study
Continuing Professional Development portfolio
Desire to attain advanced skills

Desirable

Additional training in palliative care or oncology
Training in communication skills
Registered with Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Experience

Essential

At least 5 years post qualifying physiotherapist experience in a multi-disciplinary health setting including working with palliative and end of life patients
Evidence of post graduate study/relevant CPD activities
Supervision and training of junior staff, assistants and students
Complex caseload management
Participated in audit/research project
Experience of working within ethnically and culturally diverse communities.

Desirable

Experience of lone working
Experience of teaching.
Experience of supervising staff.

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.