Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 241-485-IC-24
- Employer
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community based at Bolton Hospice
- Town
- Bolton
- Closing
- 03/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Specialist Palliative Care Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic, experienced physiotherapist to join the Palliative Care Therapy Team in Bolton. You will be part of a team consisting of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and a technical instructor. Therapy input is provided to people with malignant or non-malignant conditions who have a limited life expectancy.
The job will involve providing Palliative Physiotherapy to Bolton residents in their home and/or when they attend Bolton Hospice as an out-patient, in-patient or attend well being services.
Main duties of the job
You will work closely alongside the wider palliative care team with a patient centred focus to ensure that the palliative rehab needs of the Bolton population are met.
Duties will involve:
To work as an autonomous practitioner within the palliative care service supported by highly specialist therapists
To perform therapeutic assessment of patients with palliative and end of life care with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, to provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver individualised treatment programmes.
To provide specialist knowledge, skills and advice to clients, and be a source of expertise for therapy staff, other members of the MDT and other agencies
To supervise, educate and assess students and junior staff performance
To participate in service development activities as need identified.
To contribute to service research and audit activities.
Working for our organisation
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust provide services across the north west side of the Greater Manchester area ranging from hospital services in Bolton to community services across Bolton, Salford, Ashton, Leigh and Wigan. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 5,700 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
In return for your commitment, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust can offer you a fantastic place to work, within a high-performing, very stable Trust, alongside amazing colleagues across multi-disciplinary teams with one goal ‘to provide the best care for our patients’. This isn’t an idle boast as we can demonstrate from our last two CQC inspections (rated ‘Good’ both times), annual reports and our excellent clinical and financial performance. Our most recent Staff Survey results show us that our staff agree that Bolton is an amazing place to work. You will be joining a high performing integrated care Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description. If you have any further questions regarding this role please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below.
Person specification
person spec
Essential criteria
- physiotherapy degree
HCPC registration
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Richards
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01204 663073
- Additional information
Kim Barlow - highly specialist physiotherapist 01204 663074
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