Therapy Services Manager and Specialist Physiotherapist

Saint Michaels Hospice; Harrogate; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused healthcare provider is seeking a Therapy Services Manager and Specialist Physiotherapist to lead therapy services for patients living with terminal illness. This permanent position emphasizes compassionate care and requires a strong background in palliative care and multidisciplinary team management. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring high-quality, effective therapy services, integrating comprehensive care approaches. Flexible working hours and a community-based approach are key aspects of this rewarding role.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading a therapy team is essential.
• Strong understanding of palliative care for adults with complex conditions.
• Proficient in delivering high standards of clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead Therapy Services for patients with terminal illnesses in the community.
• Oversee performance, audit, and data management for service quality.
• Manage budgets and supervise staff, contributing to clinical governance.

Skills

Leadership

Physiotherapy

Palliative Care

Team Management

Compassionate Care

Education

Physiotherapy Degree

Job description

Therapy Services Manager and Specialist Physiotherapist

Therapy Services Manager and Specialist Physiotherapist

Permanent Contract

Location: Community-based: out in the community and in patient's homes

Hours: 30 hours per week (Monday Thursday but can be flexible)

Closing date: 15th February 2026 (the advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications)

Brand: Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire districts

About the role

This is a pivotal clinical leadership role, leading the delivery of Therapy Services for people living with a terminal illness across our community. Therapy Services are a core part of our specialist palliative care offer, providing personalised support that helps people manage symptoms and maintain the best possible quality of life. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team and reporting to the Director of Strategy and Development, youll combine hands-on clinical practice with service leadership, playing a key role in shaping, improving and expanding our therapy provision.

Main duties of the job

You'll lead and develop a skilled, compassionate Therapy Services team, including Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics and Complementary Therapies, as well as overseeing our Breathing Space breathlessness intervention clinic. Alongside delivering your own clinical caseload across inpatient, community and outpatient settings, you'll ensure services are high quality, responsive and well-integrated. You'll oversee performance reporting, audit and data collection, contribute to clinical governance, manage budgets, line manage paid and volunteer staff, and work with external partners under service-level agreements to ensure effective and sustainable delivery.

About you

Youll be an experienced Physiotherapist with a strong understanding of palliative care and caring for adults with complex, life-limiting conditions. With proven leadership and people-management skills, youll be confident guiding and supporting a multidisciplinary therapy team while maintaining high clinical standards. Compassionate, knowledgeable and well-organised, youll combine excellent clinical judgement with a collaborative approach, ensuring therapy services remain responsive, effective and person-centred.

About us

Our values:

• We put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do
• We are caring and compassionate
• We are personal and supportive in our approach
• We are responsive
• We are fair
• We are professional
• We work collaboratively
• We are accountable
• Living out our values

Our behaviour framework puts our values in the context of our everyday work. See what this includes at saintmichaelshospice.org/behaviour-framework

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our communities.

We believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Our safer recruitment and safeguarding processes help protect those accessing our services, please see our safeguarding statement on our website: https://saintmichaelshospice.org/safeguarding-statement/

If you require any support or adjustments to be able to apply for this role, please let us know by emailing [e-mail].

We will need to complete satisfactory pre-employment checks before appointing you. These include but are not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. We will cover the cost of these.

Job responsibilities

To provide physiotherapy assessment, treatment and on-going management using a person-centered rehabilitative approach to a wide range of patients with a palliative care diagnosis; working autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team across inpatient, outpatient and community hospice services. To be responsible for the leadership, management, and development of Therapy Services across North Yorkshire Hospice Care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• See job description and person specification
• See job description and person specification

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.