Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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    To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and manage clinical risk.

·         To be professionally and legally accountable for a designated patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands.

·         To assess patients’ capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient.

• To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills.

·         Implementing specialist physiotherapy treatments/programmes.

·         To undertake physical treatment techniques utilising highly developed manual skills.

·         To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care.

·         To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme.

·         To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning.

·         To ensure accurate, comprehensive, and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Health Board guidance and professionally agreed criteria.

·         To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment outcomes.

·         To work to Health Board, Professional and National clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored.

·         To assist the associate Team Lead/Physiotherapy Manager(s) with the prioritisation and management of a designated departmental patient caseload.

Communicate effectively with patients, relative, colleagues and professionals. 

·         To deputise for senior staff where appropriate.

·         To participate in the Health Board individual performance review process as both appraiser and appraisee.

·         To assist in recruitment and selection procedures for the Physiotherapy Service.

·         To contribute to the induction of physiotherapy staff.

·         To participate in and if requested lead departmental meetings to ensure the effective exchange of information across the team and co-ordination of local service delivery.

·         To take responsibility for the safe use of equipment and to advise appropriate personnel of the need to review availability of suitable resources for patient care.

·         To adhere to the policies and procedures of the Health Board and Physiotherapy Directorate.

• To maintain state registration with the Health Professions Council (HPC) and to provide evidence of that registration.

  ·         To participate in the Health Board’s individual personal review process and to take responsibility for the adherence to an agreed personal development plan

  ·         To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through continuing professional development activities including reflective practice, review of relevant literature, participation in local in-service training programmes and peer review, maintenance of a personal portfolio, and the attendance of relevant training courses as identified within a personal development plan.

  ·         To be an active member and contribute to the organisation and delivery of the in-service training programme.

  ·         To take responsibility for the tuition of Specialist and General Rotational Band 6 and Band 5 physiotherapists and physiotherapy support workers other as identified through the personal review process.

  ·         To complete a clinical educator course and undertake the tuition, supervision and performance assessment of undergraduate physiotherapy students. This will include working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification.

  ·         If requested, provide teaching and instruction to other disciplines to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.

  ·         To participate in mandatory/statutory training as outlined by the Health Board