Highly Specialist Physiotherapist - Palliative Care

Job overview

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 Palliative Care Centre is a NHS hospice, providing specialist palliative care to adult residents of a diverse central London area at home, as out-patients, and 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, have strong leadership skills, and 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.

Informal visits are welcome and encouraged.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to:

• To take a leadership role in the effective provision of rehabilitation within Pembridge Palliative Care Centre as a senior member of the multidisciplinary team.
• To undertake highly specialised physiotherapy assessments of adult patients with specialist palliative care needs who may have a highly complex presentation and to produce specialist individual treatment plans.
• To be instrumental in developing the organisation’s rehabilitative approach to palliative care.
• To provide highly specialised advice to Hospice and other staff to facilitate the management of patients in on-site and community services.
• To work effectively with all disciplines, agencies and relatives involved with the patient. To communicate with these agencies, relatives and carers in an appropriate and sensitive manner.
• Prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision.
• Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.
• Be responsible for the supervision of therapy assistants and students on placement.
• Support self and service development through active participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by participating in any audit or research being undertaken by the service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**  Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.