Job summary
The Family Care Team brings together rehabilitation, reablement, discharge planning, family support and bereavement services within an integrated multidisciplinary model. Physiotherapy contributes across Care Services, supporting patients in inpatient, Wellbeing and community settings according to assessed need and service priorities.

Job Purpose
To provide specialist physiotherapy assessment, intervention and rehabilitation for people with progressive and life-limiting illness across inpatient, Wellbeing and community settings. Working collaboratively within professional scope, the postholder will use specialist clinical reasoning and a rehabilitative palliative-care approach to maximise function, independence, comfort, confidence and quality of life according to what matters to the patient.

Working alongside Occupational Therapy, the Therapy Assistant and the wider multidisciplinary team, the postholder will support rehabilitation, symptom management and timely discharge, while contributing to service development, outcome measurement, education, audit and continuous quality improvement.

Main duties of the job
Provides specialist physiotherapy assessment, rehabilitation and enablement for patients with complex palliative, long-term and life-limiting conditions. Manages a specialist caseload using advanced clinical reasoning to undertake holistic assessment, formulate personalised rehabilitation plans and establish meaningful, patient-centred goals. Delivers evidence-based interventions to address mobility, balance, strength, deconditioning, functional decline, breathlessness, fatigue and reduced exercise tolerance, promoting independence, self-management and quality of life. Assesses and manages falls risk, contributes to fall prevention strategies, and advises on mobility aids, rehabilitation equipment, positioning, transfers and moving and handling to ensure safe and effective care.

Works collaboratively across inpatient, wellbeing and community settings, contributing to discharge planning and supporting safe transitions through home assessments, community interventions and close liaison with multidisciplinary teams, community services, primary care, social care and equipment providers. Supports the development of out-of-hospice pathways and integrated models of care, ensuring coordinated rehabilitation and avoiding duplication of interventions. Uses professional judgement to delegate appropriate activities to Therapy Assistants while maintaining clinical oversight, supervision and patient safety.

About us
Wakefield Hospice, is committed to providing the highest level of symptom management and care for people who have advanced active, progressive and life threatening illness.

Wakefield Hospice is a purpose-built specialist palliative care unit that opened in April 1990 providing 16 registered beds, a day therapy unit, bereavement support and education. Over the years the day care unit developed initially into a day therapy unit and ultimately into a drop-In centre providing therapies, information and care for patients, carers and bereaved families.

Details
Date posted: 20 October 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: Depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: B0314-26-0010
Job locations: Wakefield Hospice, Aberford Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4TS, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Working in close liaison with the multi-disciplinary team, to provide individualised physiotherapy interventions and advice for inpatients and wellbeing service users, who fall into those services criteria. To focus on specialist palliative care symptom management, enablement or end of life care. To also provide advice on issues relating to moving and handling

Person Specification
Experience

• Essential: Is able to provide an evidence-based physiotherapy service to palliative care patients in a variety of settings, focusing on adaptation and rehabilitation.
• Essential: Able to work autonomously with the hospice team, to contribute to exemplary care for patients and their families.

Qualifications

• Essential: Graduate degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy

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.

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Deputy Director of Care Services, Ruth Hall, ruth.hall@wakefieldhospice.co.uk, 01924331400

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