Physiotherapist
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work and to maintain overall accountability for delegated duties of treatment to junior staff for patients on your caseload. To use a wide variety of Physiotherapy assessment methods to identify clients who require Physiotherapy intervention.
To use clinical judgment in order to prioritise caseload in line with clinical guidelines and protocols. To ensure interventions take place in the most appropriate setting, e.g.Hospice or clients homes. To plan, prepare and undertake client assessments for a designated caseload in line with professional and national standards and guidelines.
To work with clients and/or carers to identify goals as part of an overall care plan in co-operation with the multi professional team using recognized goal setting documentation. To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions in collaboration with clients using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment for clients with multiple needs/pathology in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention. To justify own clinical judgments when differences of opinion occur To act as an advocate for patients needs when necessary.
To demonstrate effective communication skills with carers, team members, Physiotherapy colleagues and other agencies. Participate in MDT meetings and case conferences. To maintain good working relationships. To convey information in a sensitive and appropriate manner on diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plans in a range of verbal and non-verbal forms that clients/relatives can understand.
Use a variety of skills to gain consent and co-operation to treatment plans. To educate patients, relatives and carers in conditions and their effects in order to adapt to an appropriate lifestyle. To contribute to client related developments and activities within the multi-professional team.
To identify and implement service and practice development within own area of clinical specialism in conjunction with supervisor and/or manager
To use clinical judgment in order to prioritise caseload in line with clinical guidelines and protocols. To ensure interventions take place in the most appropriate setting, e.g.Hospice or clients homes. To plan, prepare and undertake client assessments for a designated caseload in line with professional and national standards and guidelines.
To work with clients and/or carers to identify goals as part of an overall care plan in co-operation with the multi professional team using recognized goal setting documentation. To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions in collaboration with clients using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment for clients with multiple needs/pathology in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention. To justify own clinical judgments when differences of opinion occur To act as an advocate for patients needs when necessary.
To demonstrate effective communication skills with carers, team members, Physiotherapy colleagues and other agencies. Participate in MDT meetings and case conferences. To maintain good working relationships. To convey information in a sensitive and appropriate manner on diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plans in a range of verbal and non-verbal forms that clients/relatives can understand.
Use a variety of skills to gain consent and co-operation to treatment plans. To educate patients, relatives and carers in conditions and their effects in order to adapt to an appropriate lifestyle. To contribute to client related developments and activities within the multi-professional team.
To identify and implement service and practice development within own area of clinical specialism in conjunction with supervisor and/or manager
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