Macmillan Assistant Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has now arisen within the Manchester Macmillan Palliative Support Service for an Assistant Practitioner.

Working within the Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care Team, contributing to the provision of a co-ordinated and comprehensive service for patients receiving specialist palliative care including patients resident in care homes in Central Manchester.

The post holder will work as part of the Macmillan Specialist Team multi-disciplinary team comprising of Medics, Dietician, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist, Specialist Nurses and Speech and Language Therapist. The team aims to provide effective support, rehabilitation and palliative care to patients with a diagnosis of cancer or life limiting illness.

The post holder will work as part of the Macmillan Specialist multi-disciplinary team comprising of the Consultants, Specialist Nurses, Dietician, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist and Speech and Language Therapist. The team aims to provide effective support rehabilitation and/or palliative care to patients with a life limiting condition requiring palliative intervention.

The post holder will assist other professionals in the implementation, delivery and evaluation of rehabilitation and education programmes to promote independence and encourage improved health, functional capabilities and quality of life.

The post holder will hold a small caseload under the supervision of the responsible clinician, supporting patients with life limiting illness to maximise their health and enable them to be cared for in their preferred place.

You'll also need to demonstrate how you will meet the ability to be mobile within community.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

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