The closing date is 1st Jul 2026
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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.
For further information, please contact the Operational Team Lead, Kerry Worsfold,
[email protected] or on 02382 311770.
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
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.
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About us
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
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Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
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
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Desirable
Experience at delivering education
Post graduate training or equivalent experience with deteriorating, life-limiting conditions
Member of Charted Society of Physiotherapy
Advanced Communication Qualification
Level 5 Leadership Courses
Level 6 History Taking and Physical Assessment Qualification
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Experience
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Essential
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.
Celebrates success.
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Desirable
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
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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.
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UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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For help with your application, contact:
Kerry Worsfold
[email protected]
02382311770
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 6
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Salary
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£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
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Contract
Permanent
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Working pattern
Part-Time, Full-Time, Flexible Working
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Reference number
348-PSE-11639
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Job locations
The Rowans Hospice
Purbrook Heath Road, Purbrook
Waterlooville
Hampshire
PO7 5RU
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Attachments
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Job Description
Specialist Palliative Care Physiotherapist JDPS.pdf – 295KB Opens in a new window
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Additional document 1
EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf – 1001KB Opens in a new window
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