# Highly Specialist Physiotherapist Breast Cancer Service > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-physiotherapist-breast-cancer-service/2a2cf6a4-29a5-4df1-afd5-5897630aaec8 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-physiotherapist-breast-cancer-service/2a2cf6a4-29a5-4df1-afd5-5897630aaec8.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cardiff and Vale University Health Board - **Town:** Cardiff - **Region:** Cardiff - **Country:** Wales - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £50,129 - £57,365 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-18T09:21:43.422Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cardiff/Cardiff/Cardiff_Vale_University_Health_Board/Physiotherapy/Physiotherapy-v8053571 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8053571?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://cavuhb.nhs.wales ## Job Content ### Job overview We have a rare and exciting exciting opportunity for an experienced  and passionate physiotherapist to join our specialist team within the breast cancer centre. This post will work closely with the breast cancer nurses, consultants and wider MDT's to support and empower patients during their breast cancer journey while encouraging rehabilitation and exercise as part of their treatment. The role will have an outpatient caseload and will be working closely with our principal Lymphoedma therapist and MSK colleagues. There will be signifcant oppourtunties for service improvement and pathway development. You will work very closely with a Physiotherapy Technition in the delivery of group interventions at a teir 1 & 2 level. Successful candidates will join a progressive team with a clear vision to deliver high quality care for the people of Cardiff and Vale, in alignment with our one team therapies, clinical rehabilitation model. You will contribute to shaping and implementing our strategy as we build and grow our integrated, multidisciplinary, person-centred service to meet the needs of our population. You will contribute to our growing movement which is turning rhetoric to reality in delivering co-produced, value based and person-centred care. ### Main duties of the job Support is integral to our model, including from our large team of clinical colleagues within Physiotherapy, lymphedema and the MSK multidisciplinary team (podiatry, hand therapy, dietetics, psychology, orthopaedics, rheumatology and radiology) and from innovation and improvement, value-based healthcare and R&D teams. Our training and development framework and existing values-based appraisal’s will align to the enhanced, advanced and consultant framework, enabling opportunities for everyone to progress across all 4 pillars of advanced and 5 pillars of consultant practice at a pace that suits them. Successful post holders will be based in the breast centre at Llandough but will have close links with the lymphedema team at CRI, providing clinical leadership and delivery in an integrated model of care that aims to deliver seamless care across the whole pathway. They will work with the team to deliver timely and accurate diagnosis, secondary prevention and supportive treatments, whilst transferring care to other specialities and MDT services appropriately. Although this role will be based at the breast centre as the only physiotherapist, our integrated model gives a unique opportunity for practice-based learning and quality improvement within a team environment. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac. ## Job Details We have a rare and exciting exciting opportunity for an experienced and passionate physiotherapist to join our specialist team within the breast cancer centre. This post will work closely with the breast cancer nurses, consultants and wider MDT's to support and empower patients during their breast cancer journey while encouraging rehabilitation and exercise as part of their treatment. The role will have an outpatient caseload and will be working closely with our principal Lymphoedma therapist and MSK colleagues. There will be signifcant oppourtunties for service improvement and pathway development. You will work very closely with a Physiotherapy Technition in the delivery of group interventions at a teir 1 & 2 level. Successful candidates will join a progressive team with a clear vision to deliver high quality care for the people of Cardiff and Vale, in alignment with our one team therapies, clinical rehabilitation model. You will contribute to shaping and implementing our strategy as we build and grow our integrated, multidisciplinary, person-centred service to meet the needs of our population. You will contribute to our growing movement which is turning rhetoric to reality in delivering co-produced, value based and person-centred care. ## Job Description Support is integral to our model, including from our large team of clinical colleagues within Physiotherapy, lymphedema and the MSK multidisciplinary team (podiatry, hand therapy, dietetics, psychology, orthopaedics, rheumatology and radiology) and from innovation and improvement, value-based healthcare and R&D teams. Our training and development framework and existing values-based appraisal’s will align to the enhanced, advanced and consultant framework, enabling opportunities for everyone to progress across all 4 pillars of advanced and 5 pillars of consultant practice at a pace that suits them. Successful post holders will be based in the breast centre at Llandough but will have close links with the lymphedema team at CRI, providing clinical leadership and delivery in an integrated model of care that aims to deliver seamless care across the whole pathway. They will work with the team to deliver timely and accurate diagnosis, secondary prevention and supportive treatments, whilst transferring care to other specialities and MDT services appropriately. Although this role will be based at the breast centre as the only physiotherapist, our integrated model gives a unique opportunity for practice-based learning and quality improvement within a team environment. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply. ## Responsibilities You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Skills - demonstrate specialist skills within the field of MSK outpatients **Desirable** - Skills - Evidence of involvement in audit and research ### Experience **Essential** - Experience - post registration specialist experience in a physiotherapy **Desirable** - Experience - Experience of providing clinical supervision ### Qualifications **Essential** - Qualifications - Physiotherapy Degree **Desirable** - Qualifications - Working towards/ have a relevant higher level qualification ### Special Knowledge **Essential** - Special Knowledge - Evidence of relevant C.P.D ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Personal Qualities **Desirable** - Personal Qualities ## Documents - [jdps - english (pdf, 808.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10343251) - [oh form - ig ffurflen (docx, 102.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10343252) - [guidance notes for applicants nov25 (pdf, 322.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2843) - [nwssp recruitment services privacy notice (pdf, 404.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1630) - [croeso i fwrdd iechyd prifysgol caerdydd a’r fro (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2422) - [welcome to cardiff and vale university health board (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2421) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.