Specialist Palliative Care Physiotherapist

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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence