Job summary
We are recruiting a full time Physiotherapist to the the Specialist Palliative Care Team in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. Within this role you will be working in a multi-professional team across in-patient, community and out-patient settings. You will autonomously manage a complex patient caseload with specialist palliative care needs, demonstrating high level clinical reasoning and communication skills, providing palliative rehabilitation, symptom control, enabling independence, self-management strategies and optimising quality of life.
The successful candidate will be innovative and forward thinking, and be professionally confident with experience across a variety of NHS in-patient/community settings. You will need to have a high level of emotional intelligence and empathy, excellent communication skills, be able to work well within a multi-disciplinary team, be proactive in audit and quality improvement and have excellent organisational and time management skills.
Working within the Specialist Palliative Care Team is highly rewarding, and provides opportunity to develop an array of broad clinical and non-clinical skills. You will be working with colleagues who are passionate about service improvement to provide excellent patient care.
Applications from experienced Band 6 Physiotherapists welcome. We would support your development with training to achieve the required competence.
Main duties of the job
The clinical lead Physiotherapy role in Specialist Palliative care requires a dynamic and professionally confident physiotherapist with suitable experience to:
- To manage a defined caseload of clients with complex needs within in-patient, out-patient, Day Centre and community settings, using evidence based /client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
- To independently manage their own daily complex caseload as part of a multidisciplinary team, and to refer appropriate patients for further assessments/interventions.
- To use highly specialised, advanced clinical reasoning skills to determine a differential diagnosis.
- To undertake relevant research/audit within the Specialist Palliative care service, developing an advanced practice portfolio and implementing best practice in line with National Guidelines.
- To provide leadership for less experienced staff, through supervision and appraisal as delegated by supervisor
- To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Health Board Physiotherapy Service.
- To regularly supervise Physiotherapy students on practice placements, and other students e.g. Work Experience.
- To take a lead role in the post-graduate education of physiotherapy colleagues and other professions.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy.
- HCPC Registration.
- Evidence of relevant, specialised post graduate courses/CPD to Msc Level.
Desirable
- Experience of leadership training
- Member of relevant special interest group
Experience
Essential
- Broad range of experience with specialist experience in Orthopaedic/ Neurological/ Respiratory medicine/ Community/ inpatient rehabilitation/ Palliative care physiotherapy
- Substantial experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and/or multi disciplinary team
- Experience of working within healthcare systems.
- Experience of audit/research (clinical and organisational).
- Experience of formal and informal teaching.
Aptitude, Abilities & Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills (verbal, nonverbal and written).
- Ability to use highly specialised clinical reasoning skills to determine differential diagnosis, independent of other Practitioners, in an expert area of practice.
- Advanced assessment skills.
- The physical ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling, equipment and advanced manual treatment techniques.
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively within a team environment.
- Coaching/mentoring Skills
- Good IT skills
Desirable
- The ability to speak or learn Welsh to a satisfactory level
Personal Qualities & Circumstances
Essential
- Self motivated and capable of motivating others
- Able to set priorities and deliver against targets
- Ability to carry out full range of duties (including travel between the various hospital and community sites and domiciliary settings) in a timely manner.
- Ability to work flexibly to meet service demands.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy.
- HCPC Registration.
- Evidence of relevant, specialised post graduate courses/CPD to Msc Level.
Desirable
- Experience of leadership training
- Member of relevant special interest group
Experience
Essential
- Broad range of experience with specialist experience in Orthopaedic/ Neurological/ Respiratory medicine/ Community/ inpatient rehabilitation/ Palliative care physiotherapy
- Substantial experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and/or multi disciplinary team
- Experience of working within healthcare systems.
- Experience of audit/research (clinical and organisational).
- Experience of formal and informal teaching.
Aptitude, Abilities & Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills (verbal, nonverbal and written).
- Ability to use highly specialised clinical reasoning skills to determine differential diagnosis, independent of other Practitioners, in an expert area of practice.
- Advanced assessment skills.
- The physical ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling, equipment and advanced manual treatment techniques.
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively within a team environment.
- Coaching/mentoring Skills
- Good IT skills
Desirable
- The ability to speak or learn Welsh to a satisfactory level
Personal Qualities & Circumstances
Essential
- Self motivated and capable of motivating others
- Able to set priorities and deliver against targets
- Ability to carry out full range of duties (including travel between the various hospital and community sites and domiciliary settings) in a timely manner.
- Ability to work flexibly to meet service demands.
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
