Clinical AHP Specialist (Physiotherapist) in Palliative Care

Job overview

We are looking for a for a compassionate and highly skilled Physiotherapist to join our Community Specialist  Palliative Care Team. This is an exciting opportunity to use your advanced clinical expertise to make a real difference to people living with life limiting illness, supporting them and their families to live with dignity, comfort and choice.

You'll be an autonomous practitioner who thrives in complex situations, values collaborative working and demonstrates leadership rooted in evidence-based, person centred care. If you would like to join a service that is committed to delivering excellent care at the heart of the community, we'd love to hear from you.

Please know that this role is indictive.

Please note interviews will be held on 27th May.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will:

*       Provide expert assessment, advice and intervention for patients with            complex palliative and end‑of‑life care needs.

• Lead on caseload management for your locality and contributing to high‑quality multidisciplinary care.
• Use advanced clinical reasoning to support patients and families through complex emotional, physical, and psychosocial situations.
• Communicate sensitively, often delivering difficult information with professionalism, empathy, and reassurance.
• Develop productive working relationships with internal teams, primary care partners, hospices and community services.
• Contribute to service development, innovation, and clinical governance.
• Deliver and support palliative care education, supervision, research, and audit.
• Promote equitable, inclusive, dignified care for all patients and carers.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in autonomous, community‑based work, enjoys working across professions, and is passionate about improving palliative care provision.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our Trust and leadership teams are committed to supporting your work/life balance via flexible working and tailored support to help you advance your clinical practice and leadership skills in style that suits you, your health and wellbeing and your future career aspirations. This is an ideal opportunity to bring your skills and develop them in a flexible, supportive, and positive community service.

You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence due to the geographic area covered by the team.

Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.