Senior Community Macmillan Specialist Physiotherapist - #1631569

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.

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.

Advanced clinical reasoning and activity analysis 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 Macmillan multidisciplinary team.

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.

• Qualified to practice as a physiotherapist within the NHS.


• Postgraduate qualifications and experience to Master's level.


• Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council.


• Relevant postgraduate 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 specialty.


• Evidence of managing a clinical caseload 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.


• Excellent communication skills.


• 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.


• Masters qualification.


• Specialist training in relevant area.


• Experience of undertaking clinical audit and standard setting.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Cornerstone Centre

3 Graham Street

Manchester

M11 3AA

https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/

£46,148 to £52,809 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata)