Physiotherapy Professional Lead, Learning Disabilities Service.
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Pay
£53,755 - £60,504 a year
Job Type
Permanent
Location
Sheffield S4 7BW
Full Job Description
To be responsible for specialist Physiotherapy professional leadership in the planning and delivery of Physiotherapy within Learning Disabilities prioritising clinical needs to provide an effective service. Responsibilities include:
1. Planning and delivering care pathways as required by the learning disabilities service.
2. Accepting clinical responsibility for a designated caseload with complex presentations, prioritising need and taking on a co-ordinating role within the team.
3. Undertaking comprehensive Physiotherapy assessments of clients using investigative and analytical skills to formulate individualised treatment plans.
4. Planning and implementing client-centred individual and/or group interventions using clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment methods to achieve therapeutic goals.
5. Monitoring, evaluating and modifying treatment for clients with multiple needs to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
6. Assessing capacity, gaining valid informed consent, and working within a legal framework with clients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
7. Working with clients, carers and relatives who may have distressing social/clinical circumstances.
8. Supporting Physiotherapy staff in the Learning Disabilities service in the development and implementation of evidence-based practice in Physiotherapy.
9. Providing specialist professional advice to junior Physiotherapy staff and MDT locally and across organisations.
10. Developing and implementing highly specialist programmes of care to adults accessing Learning Disability services.
11. Offering highly specialist expert opinions and therapeutic interventions where often opinions differ or little information is available.
12. Ensuring that the range of equipment is suited to a range of needs and is updated in accordance with the changing needs of the service and with technological advances.
13. Contributing to the Trust or Learning Disability Service on call rota as required.
14. Demonstrating skills in communicating complex sensitive and contentious information to clients and carers as appropriate.
15. Promoting awareness of the role of Physiotherapy within the team, locally and nationally, negotiating priorities where appropriate.
16. Providing clinical leadership and management to a designated staff group as required by the service including recruitment, supervision, and development of these staff within the multidisciplinary context.
17. Contributing to the development of the strategic direction of Physiotherapy provision within Community Learning Disabilities.
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