To be responsible for carrying out in-depth, evidence based assessment, intervention and evaluation of occupational performance needs.
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and work alone as a highly skilled clinician providing guidance within their specialist field.
To be professionally and legally accountable for a designated patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related, service and professional demands.
To treat referrals in a timely and appropriate manner prioritising and triaging as required.
To document interventions on S1 IT systems as required by the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
To complete therapy and close referrals within appropriate timescales.
When necessary, to make internal or external referrals to the appropriate team or service.
To work as an autonomous practitioner to manage a caseload of clients with various levels of need i.e. rheumatology, medical, neurological conditions and/or psychosocial needs, often in an acute phase of illness/injury, providing therapy intervention to enable optimum occupational performance while maintaining and/or developing their current roles e.g. employment.
To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload, carrying out risk assessments and risk management independently.
To assess patients' capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent, 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 expert investigative analytical and enhanced clinical reasoning skills.
To design therapy/rehabilitation plans in collaboration with the Service User and/or carer using a range of rehabilitation approaches to achieve occupational performance goals.
To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training, advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the physical, psychological and social environment to meet the occupational performance needs of the client.
To provide the assessment, design, and manufacture of splints as appropriate to the Service User needs, to enable maximum safety and independence in ADL.
To provide professional supervision to junior members of the team and take on the responsibility of practice educator for hand therapy students' placements as required.
To contribute to the day to day management of the Hand Therapy Service as delegated by the Clinical Lead Hand Therapist.
To use effectively and efficiently all IT systems as required by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
To maintain relevant data, statistics, workload, and manpower information for yourself and your team.
To support monitoring and performance management of the team.
To ensure all health and safety legislation and departmental policies are implemented to promote a safe working environment.
Attendance at appropriate committees/forums/meetings to develop and maintain services as delegated by a senior member of the team.
To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching, and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines, and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy for each individual patient and to ensure continuation of the individualised treatment programme, including manual handling advice.
To understand and apply relevant national clinical guidelines and relevant national standards to which quality and effective practice should be monitored.
Please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for full information regarding this post and its requirements.
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