Please see attached full job description.*To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care.*To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise.*To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations.*To use clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition and agree patient centred goals with patients and carers.*Formulate and deliver an individual physiotherapy treatment programme where appropriate. Use of Care plans based on evidence based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and a broad knowledge and understanding of treatment.*To accept responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.*To carry out assessment and treatments of a range of conditions with moderate physical effort on a daily basis.*To clarify and explain the patient's condition to them and/or their families to enable the formulation of realistic agreed treatment goals and plans. This may sometimes involve the breaking of unwelcome news to the patient and/or their carers.*To deal sensitively with patients, carers and families who may have high levels of anxiety as part of their complex presentation.*To comply with the Trust's Manual Handling policy and local therapeutic handling guidance at all times.*To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records in line with Trust procedures and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) standards of practice.*To write concise, informative reports detailing treatment outcomes and levels of disability for medical staff, employers, solicitors and Education Health Plans*To train, supervise and performance manage more junior staff including technical instructors and therapy support practitioners.*To communicate effectively with patients and their parents, guardians or carers, to maximise recovery potential, and to ensure understanding of both conditions and treatment.*Communication skills of persuasion, motivation and explanation to encourage patients to undertake their treatment programme.*To ensure that your own actions, and those of the staff you supervise, support equality, diversity and rights of our patients and their families.*To assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.*To maintain accurate record of patients' attendances and treatments using the ICS system.