About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced physiotherapist to join our specialist palliative care team.
You will be working as a lone physiotherapist in a multidisciplinary team, promoting a high quality rehabilitative palliative care service that integrates rehabilitation, enablement, self-management and self-care into the holistic model of palliative care.
Pembridge Palliative Care Centre is a NHS hospice, providing specialist palliative care to adult residents of a diverse central London area at home, as out-patients, and virtually.
We support people with progressive, life-limiting conditions such as cancer, heart failure and neurological disease, not just at the end-of-life phase but throughout their palliative journey.
If you can provide a flexible and holistic approach to palliative rehabilitation, have strong leadership skills, and ambition to develop the service, this post offers great opportunities. Please describe in your supporting statement how your skills and experience meet the person specification.
External supervision will be provided. Access to external courses and in house in-service training is also available.
Informal visits are welcome and encouraged.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to:
To take a leadership role in the effective provision of rehabilitation within Pembridge Palliative Care Centre as a senior member of the multidisciplinary team. To undertake highly specialised physiotherapy assessments of adult patients with specialist palliative care needs who may have a highly complex presentation and to produce specialist individual treatment plans. To be instrumental in developing the organisation's rehabilitative approach to palliative care. To provide highly specialised advice to Hospice and other staff to facilitate the management of patients in on-site and community services. To work effectively with all disciplines, agencies and relatives involved with the patient. To communicate with these agencies, relatives and carers in an appropriate and sensitive manner. Prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision. Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation. Be responsible for the supervision of therapy assistants and students on placement. Support self and service development through active participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by participating in any audit or research being undertaken by the service.
About us
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life's most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Job description Job responsibilities
** Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trusts values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
BSc in Physiotherapy Health Professions Council registered Evidence of post registration study Continuing Professional Development portfolio Desire to attain advanced skills
Desirable
Additional training in palliative care or oncology Training in communication skills Registered with Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Experience Essential
At least 5 years post qualifying physiotherapist experience in a multi-disciplinary health setting including working with palliative and end of life patients Evidence of post graduate study/relevant CPD activities Supervision and training of junior staff, assistants and students Complex caseload management Participated in audit/research project Experience of working within ethnically and culturally diverse communities.
Desirable
Experience of lone working Experience of teaching. Experience of supervising staff
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Central London Community Health Trust
Address Pembridge Palliative Care Centre
St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing
London
W10 6DZ
Employer's website https://clch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)