Highly Specialised Physiotherapist - CR-STAT

Undertake highly skilled/developed physiotherapy assessments to determine, develop and implement individual care/treatment plans for patients some of whom may have complex needs, which may require advanced skills. To maintain up-to-date clinical written records using computerised database in accordance with local and professional standards; and also writing comprehensive discharge and progress reports to medical referrers. To utilise developed communication and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multicultural population in a range of disease specific physiotherapeutic techniques, principals and guidelines To provide highly specialist training and education programmes for medical colleagues allied health care professionals, rehabilitation assistants, and health care assistants, in the form of lectures, tutorials and presentations To maintain continuing professional development by participating in regular in service training, supervision, reflective practice and attending study days and training, giving feedback to the team where appropriate to disseminate learning To provide caseload supervision and allocation to the rehabilitation assistants, band 5 and 6 physiotherapists, undergraduate and graduate physiotherapy students in conjunction with colleagues. To actively participate in the induction and development of new members of the CAR team. To attend statutory training annually To maintain competency and proficiency in manually handling people and therapeutic manual handling To flexibly plan and organise own time To achieve the effective daily management of a caseload of clients, including prioritising clinical work and balancing other client related and professional duties To provide statistical information as required in a timely manner To keep up-to-date statistics in accordance with service requirements To be responsible for any organisational tasks related to the post To be flexible in the undertaking of any other duties as requested by line managers to meet the changing needs of the service To attend service and trust meetings and case conferences as required For full details of job description & responsibilities please see attached document