Highly Specialist Physiotherapist | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - ref. u89516015
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.
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 ;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
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
This advert closes on Sunday 3 Nov 2024