Senior Community Macmillan Specialist Physiotherapist

Transformationunitgm; Manchester; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job description

Main area: Highly Specialist Physiotherapist – Community Palliative Care Team Grade NHS AfC: Band 7

• Contract: Permanent
• Hours: Part time
• Job share

18.75 hours per week

Job ref: 349-LCO-7015875

Employer: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Cornerstone Centre

Town: 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

Permanent - Job Share/Part Time 18.75 Hours per week

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.

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, taking into account risk, safety, choice, and independence.

Advanced clinical reasoning and activity analysis skills will be used to grade interventions to achieve therapeutic goals to meet people’s broader therapy needs, e.g. facilitating maintenance of participation in leisure activities.

To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions in order to measure progress and outcomes to ensure effectiveness of intervention.

Provide palliative care to enhance the quality of life for patients and carers with any life limiting illness requiring palliative care, including complex physical, psychological and emotional needs. This includes education of other health care professionals, training, support and advice for the multidisciplinary team.

Complete Holistic Needs Assessments as part of patient assessments.

The therapist will be expected to triage all referrals.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re 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 set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

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. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

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 and Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. 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. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Essential and Desirable

• Qualified to practice as a physiotherapist within the NHS.
• Post graduate qualifications and experience to Master's level.
• Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council.
• Relevant post graduate training required to underpin clinical practice in the required area that the Senior Practitioner will be required to work.
• Significant experience at a senior level of clinical practice in the speciality.
• Evidence of managing a clinical of patients with complex clinical needs.
• Able to demonstrate clinical practice at a senior level.
• Experience of managing / leading a team.
• Proven clinical leadership.
• Evidence of post registration development relevant to the post.
• Awareness of recent government policies and directives and the implications for community service delivery both health and social care.
• Knowledge of other non-statutory agencies working in the community.
• Knowledge of relevant governance systems and their influence on current practice.
• Ability to manage own caseload and resources effectively.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to interpret complex clinical facts and situations.
• Ability to prioritise workload for self and team.
• Evidence of development of own skills within the scope of professional practice.
• Evidence of innovative thoughts and actions.
• Ability to maintain accurate and contemporaneous records on all systems.
• Excellent IT skills with knowledge of and able to utilise: Word, Outlook, Excel, and organisational information systems i.e. EMIS and Liquid logic.
• Postgraduate Qualifications relevant to the clinical area of expertise.
• Management / Leadership Qualification.
• Specialist training in relevant area.
• Experience of undertaking Clinical Audit and Standard setting.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.