Specialist Palliative Care Physiotherapist
The closing date is 21st Jul 2026
Job summary
Are you looking to develop your career within Specialist Palliative Care?
This will be the perfect opportunity for you!
We are currently recruiting within the Community Specialist Palliative Care Service for an experienced Physiotherapist. The post holder will have the opportunity to continue to develop and grow their career within an innovative, collaborative, and experienced multi professional Specialist Palliative Care Service.
The Specialist Palliative Care Service prides itself on supporting excellent symptom management and providing emotional support, enabling patients to be cared for according to their preferences. The team values close working relationships with clinicians in primary, secondary, and social care, as well as with the local hospice provider.
We have a strong commitment to personal and professional development across all professions. Continued professional development is central to retaining expertise within our speciality and to promoting and delivering quality and excellence in palliative and end of life care. To support this, we offer opportunities for professional development and further academic study.
Informal enquiries and visits are warmly welcomed and encouraged to help you fully understand the role and the service.
The post holder will develop advanced skills in the clinical assessment and management of palliative patients and will acquire the professional knowledge and maturity required to work towards autonomous patient assessment. This includes developing a rationale for initial treatment, and providing appropriate supportive management. The role will also require the ability to communicate complex and distressing information. The post holder will liaise and network across a broad multidisciplinary team to ensure a coordinated approach to providing specialist palliative care for patients and their families, with the ultimate goal of enabling patients to achieve the best possible quality of life.
At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Registered Physiotherapist with education to Degree level or equivalent.
- Current Health Care Professions Council registration as a Physiotherapist
- Advanced communications skills training or be prepared to work towards this.
- Evidence of Continuing Education
- Car driver with current licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
- Post graduate training or equivalent experience with deteriorating, life-limiting conditions
- Member of Charted Society of Physiotherapy
- Advanced Communication Qualification
- Level 6 History Taking and Physical Assessment Qualification
Experience
- Considerable post-registration experience working with patients with life limiting/deteriorating conditions.
- Proactively manage complex conditions supporting self-care, self-management and enabling independence.
- Community Physio experience.
- Experience of working at a Band 6 level or equivalent.
- Up to date knowledge of Physiotherapy in a relevant speciality
- Experience of clinical (informal) and formal education delivery.
- Exemplar communications skills both verbal and written.
- Ability to work autonomously but also as part of a multi-professional team.
- Basic IT competency with email, internet, Word and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge of person-centred assessment that encompasses the planning, delivering and evaluating programmes of care for the health and well-being of patients with complex symptom control.
- Knowledge of the pathology of disease and illness processes in malignant and non-malignant progressive conditions
- Experience of inter-agency working and discharge/transfer of care processes. Demonstrates an understanding of your role within that process.
- Ability to manage the emotional impact of working with the deteriorating patients.
- Ability to work autonomously but also as part of a multi-professional team and recognise when to seek advice
- Self-motivated, self-starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme
- Good communication skills with a willingness to attend Advanced Communication Skills Training
- Ability to keep accurate and concise patient notes
- Ability to present information, written & orally, in a clear and logical manner
- Self awareness with the ability to identify personal coping strategies.
- Recognition of own limitations.
- Able to secure the co-operation of colleagues at all levels.
- Facilitative and non-judgmental approach to patient care.
- Flexible and demonstrates the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the service.
- Relevant experience at Band 6 level working in palliative care.
- Experience part taking in clinical audit and outcome measurement
- Demonstrate and understand the Clinical Governance Framework and its implications for services.
- Experience of quality issues and audit
- Awareness of local and national agendas relating to Specialist/Palliative care.
- Presentation Skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Band
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-Time, Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
348-PSE-11855
Job locations
The Rowans HospicePurbrook Heath Road, PurbrookWaterloovilleHampshirePO7 5RU
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