Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Tuesday, Friday, remaining hours to be agreed)
- Job ref
- 249-6526789
- Employer
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Western Hospital
- Town
- Swindon
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Cancer Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Job overview
Part time - 18.75 hours per week.
We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic physiotherapist to join an innovative, new Macmillan Therapy Team at Great Western Hospital Trust. You should have relevant experience working in physiotherapy with an interest in specialising within cancer to deliver health and wellbeing, and prehabilitation and rehabilitation to all cancer patients.
This new Band 6 Cancer Physiotherapist post is a part-time post and will be supported by a Band 7 Physiotherapist through a supervision and appraisal process.
We will offer training and support to develop your existing experience to deliver both group-based rehabilitation, prehabilitation and 1:1 clinics, as well as supporting health and wellbeing events for cancer patients.
There are also opportunities for paid study leave and/or course funding both internally/externally.
If you are suitably experienced, then why not apply?
Main duties of the job
You will be working as part of a small, friendly multidisciplinary team to deliver group-based exercise rehabilitation and health and wellbeing education for patients who are living with and beyond cancer. You will be able to work flexibly with the ability to drive to venues within Swindon and the surrounding areas, as well as office and home working.
As part of this pioneering team, you will also be supporting health and wellbeing workshops both virtual and face to face and collaborating with the team to look at new proactive ways to improve wellbeing and access to rehabilitation to those affected by cancer.
You will also lead group based Targeted Cancer Prehabilitation sessions to help prepare patients for their cancer treatments and assist in symptom management and post treatment rehabilitation either in 1:1 clinics, group settings or via telephone/video consultation.
Finally, you will be an integral part of this developmental team to showcase the benefits of health and wellbeing and rehabilitation as part of the Cancer Patient Pathway in improving quality of life, physical outcomes and empowering patients to self-manage and live active, healthy lives.
Working for our organisation
Our Values
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Purpose of the Job
As part of the Macmillan Personalised care team you will be expected to provide cancer prehabilitation and rehabilitation. The ambitions of the team are to holistically support and empower people affected by cancer to take an active role in their health and care.
The post holder will provide high quality, specialist physiotherapy care, supporting and treating patients diagnosed with cancer.
The post holder will provide professional clinical supervision and advice to the team and wider health care professionals working alongside people living with and beyond cancer.
The post holder will contribute to service development and implementation of policy to support the expansion of Macmillan Personalised care team.
This service provision delivery allows people with a diagnosis of cancer to interface with the type of bespoke support they require whilst filling a gap in current services which will allow an MDT focused service and provision of bespoke individualised self-management and interventions.
Patient Care
Clinical
1. Work within 1:1 clinics as well as offering group work within the Trust or in the community providing cancer specialist physiotherapy input and support to people living with and beyond cancer to promote on-going recovery with prehab and rehab needs.
2. Triage and deliver cancer prehabilitation and rehabilitation, either as specialist 1:1 clinics, targeted groups or sign posting to universal services within the community. To teach and provide education on health and wellbeing and symptom management.
3. To support in the planning and delivery of health and wellbeing workshops on topics such as cancer related fatigue, and cancer site specific workshops.
4. Undertake diagnosis, assessment and treatment of people living with or beyond cancer, to assist people to adapt and cope with living with the long-term physical consequences of cancer treatment including breathlessness, fatigue, axillary web syndrome etc.
5. Update all patient records in line with professional code of conduct, clinical governance and risk management at each contact and instigate appropriate and timely communication of information to the patients primary and secondary care teams.
6. Activity and exercise management advice for low-risk patients on self-managed follow-up pathways including supporting health and wellbeing events.
7. Advise and educate patients and their families /carers on the management of individual problems.
8. To provide highly specialist advice to other physiotherapist colleagues within the Trust and Primary care.
9. To continually evaluate physiotherapist interventions to ensure up to date evidence-based practice is delivered across cancer services, in line with professional clinical standards and guidelines.
10. Communicate sensitive, complex and contentious information, to enable positive self-management using approaches such as motivational interviewing.
11. Sign-posting to approved local educational programmes and support groups and managed referrals for more significant support requirements e.g. health psychology in secondary care.
Communication:
1.Communicate complex information and enabling positive self-management using approaches such as motivational interviewing.
2.Communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and ensure understanding of the condition. Advanced communication skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation, empathy and gaining informed consent will be used with a wide variety of patients.
3.Communicates specialist information on a range of service development issues within the organisation and across other providers.
4.Maintain networks to provide resources of clinical knowledge and research for the service.
5.Be able to use a range of presentation skills to suit the audience that may be patients, carers, peers and managers.
6. To deliver training to patients and staff on cancer prehabilitation and rehabilitation and promote the physiotherapy profession in cancer services to the multidisciplinary team.
Professional
1. Delivery of an evidence-based physiotherapy and physical activity education programme to people affected by cancer, health and social care colleagues and fitness professionals.
2. Support the development and implementation of a training needs analysis and identify learning needs of health and social care colleagues and fitness professionals.
3. Deliver colleagues learning and development (L&D) programme to increase health and social care professional’s confidence, communication and awareness of the rehabilitation and support needs of people.
Leadership
1.Contribute to service delivery evaluation and development.
2. Line management of other allied health professionals in arranging supervisions, appraisals and in service training.
3. Responsibility for ‘Risk Assessment’ for all aspects relating to the physiotherapy and physical activity within the Personalised care team.
4. Lead on the delivery of the community exercise programme based in gyms and community centres, provided for people affected by cancer.
Financial Responsibilities
Not applicable – this is not a budget-holder post
Responsibilities for People or Training
1. Provide patients, families and carers with advice and support.
2. Evaluate the impact of these training programmes, for patients and carers, to ensure that they provide the necessary knowledge and skills to gain independence, safely manage changing circumstances and plan for unavoidable progression of conditions.
3. Be responsible for providing and maintaining a learning environment and maximise opportunities for education and development in the clinical area to enhance individual development and performance in the delivery of high standards of care.
4.Take part in the process of clinical supervision and participate in clinical supervision and mentorship of others.
5.Take responsibility for your own personal and professional development; maintain competence, knowledge and skills commensurate with role.
6. To be actively involved in clinical staff recruitment of other AHP within the team as necessary.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Degree in Physiotherapy
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Varied Experience across differernt areas of physiotherapy including core rotations of musculoskeletal, neurology and cardiorespiratory
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of further training or qualifications
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working with cancer patients either directly or indirectly relating to cancer specific side effects/symptoms e.g. when managing another aspect of their care or a comorbidity
- • Experience of complex case-management in long term conditions
- • Experience in managing people
- • Experience of developing educational programmes, teaching and presenting
- • Experience of multi-professional working
- • Knowledge of person-centred care, positive psychology, behaviour change and self-management
- • Experience in prescribing and/or delivering physiotherapy exercises or rehabilitation
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of Oncology and Palliative care
- • Awareness of local and National Cancer Directives
- • An understanding of health and wellbeing, diet and nutrition and psychology in the role in self-management.
- • Experience in delivering group exercise therapy classes
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • HCPC Registration and knowledge of code of conduct
- • Involvement in Appraisal process/Appraisal of others
- • Broad clinical diagnosis and treatment skills for a range of conditions
- • General knowledge of musculoskeletal, neurology and cardiorespiratory physiotherapy
- • Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
- • Enthusiasm, commitment , flexibility and self motivation
- • Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information to a range of staff
- • Ability to work under pressure with change and uncertainty.
Desirable criteria
- • Specialist knowledge of physiotherapy in oncology education
- • Knowledge of Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation in the management of long-term health conditions, including the role of diet and nutrition and psychology.
Other Job-Related Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Willing to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust-wide as and when required to do so.
- • Own a car and have a full UK driving licence.
- • Good level of IT skills, with experience of using Microsoft packages, e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook.
Desirable criteria
- • To be involved with moving and handling of event materials
- • Flexible working when required i.e. occasional evening and weekend work
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Sarah Neate
- Job title
- Macmillan Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01793 607819
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