Please see JD for full description of job role and responsibilities To take a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurological deficits. These patients may have an acute, sub-acute or chronic presentation and may have a range of routine to highly complex problems. To provide an effective high quality service to patients. Take a lead role in supervision and teaching of physiotherapists within this specialty by encouraging evidence based practice and CPD. To promote the role of physiotherapy with other disciplines, acting as a specialist for advice. To demonstrate leadership skills, contributing to service development by identifying areas for development and holding responsibility for defined projects. To set and monitor standards of practice. To undertake evidence based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in departmental and service evaluation/research. To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload and merge a case load of patients with a range of routine and highly complex needs. To act as keyworker for agreed patients. To assess and recommend most appropriate neurorehabilitation pathway for individual patients, including tertiary centres, in acute and community settings. To provide ongoing advice and monitoring of patients throughout neurorehabilitation pathway, including active involvement in goal planning and discharge with tertiary centres to facilitate effective discharge and smooth transition between services. To provide expert clinical advice for the most appropriate timing and extent of neurorehabilitation required by individual patients, especially with regard to use of tertiary services. To be a member of the neurorehabilitation pathways team actively developing Community Neurorehabilitation Services.