Main area: Highly Specialist Physiotherapist – Community Palliative Care Team Grade NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 18.75 hours per week (Part time, Job share)
Job ref: 349-LCO-7015875
Employer: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Cornerstone Centre, Manchester
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/04/2025 23:59
Senior Community Macmillan Specialist Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The post holder will work within an established, supportive, and community consultant-led Palliative Care team to achieve the most appropriate outcomes for the patients on the caseload.
Main duties of the job
1. Assess the palliative care needs of patients with life-limiting illness approaching the end of their life, clinically reason problem lists and physiotherapy treatment plans in coordination with the patient and family.
2. Utilize advanced clinical reasoning and activity analysis to grade interventions to achieve therapeutic goals to meet broader therapy needs, e.g., facilitating maintenance of participation in leisure activities.
3. Monitor, evaluate, and modify interventions to measure progress and outcomes to ensure effectiveness.
4. Provide palliative care to enhance the quality of life for patients and carers with life-limiting illness, including complex physical, psychological, and emotional needs.
5. Educate other health care professionals and provide training, support, and advice for the Macmillan multidisciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford, and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We’ve created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and drive research and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.
At MFT, we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, while protecting your health and wellbeing.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. All individuals, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, are encouraged to apply for this post.
Person specification
Essential and Desirable
* Qualified to practice as a physiotherapist within the NHS.
* Postgraduate qualifications and experience to Master's level.
* Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council.
* Significant experience at a senior level of clinical practice in the specialty.
* Evidence of managing a clinical caseload of patients with complex clinical needs.
* Ability to manage own caseload and resources effectively.
* Excellent IT skills with knowledge of and able to utilize Word, Outlook, Excel, and organizational information systems.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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