Physiotherapy Clinical Specialist - Acute Team

Provide highly specialised assessment and treatment for patients with complex needs. Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload and organise this efficiently with respect to clinical priorities and time management, ensuring a high standard of care for patients under your own and junior staffs management. Demonstrate advanced analytical, investigative, and manual therapy skills to assess, diagnose, and treat patients with acute, chronic, and highly complex presentations. Maintain accurate, comprehensive patient records in line with professional and Trust standards. Assess and manage clinical risk within your own patient caseload, ensuring safe, evidence-based practice always. Provide both spontaneous and planned advice, teaching, and instruction to patients, relatives, carers, and other professionals to promote understanding of physiotherapy aims and ensure a consistent approach to care. Liaise with Consultants and other members of the multi-disciplinary team to represent physiotherapy at meetings to ensure coordinated, evidence-based interventions. Work as part of the physiotherapy team providing weekend service as required, adhering to guidance. Communicate effectively across language and cultural barriers and produce complex patient-related documentation as needed. For more information please see the attached job description and person specification.