Macmillan Specialist Oncology Physiotherapist

Macmillan Specialist Oncology Physiotherapist

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Chartered Physiotherapist to join our dynamic Therapies team to work across our in-patient services at the Velindre Cancer Centre. We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Physiotherapist with highly developed communication skills, good organisational and time management skills, and appropriate post graduate experience. The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate CPD in rehabilitation to take on this challenging role of specialised assessment and rehabilitation interventions to enable cancer and palliative care patients to live well with the impact of cancer.

You will work with a supportive MDT in cancer services to provide a flexible approach to service delivery, contributing to the in-patient services. The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team serving our acute oncology assessment unit, ambulatory care and inpatient services. There will also be an opportunity for the post holder to become involved in research and service development.

In addition, you will be involved in working flexibly across the 7 day service provided to our oncology inpatients.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post;
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and ouraward-winning Welsh Blood Service
, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.

Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being;

accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.

If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.

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• Degree in Physiotherapy
• Professional registration HCPC
• Registration with CSP
• Evidence of recent study

• Has experience in at least 2 discrete service areas
• Inter-professional and multiagency team working
• Direct involvement with carers and families to facilitate return to function
• Experience of Oncology and Palliative Care

• Autonomous practitioner with self management skills
• Sound clinical reasoning skills within clinical area
• Mechanisms of audit and research methodology
• Ability to speak welsh

• Adaptive skills that embrace change and new developments
• Ability to cope well under pressure.

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.