To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and working 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 and professional demands To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to 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 use expert clinical reasoning skills frequently with no access to other colleagues To formulate individualised clinical management programmes utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care 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. This will include manual handling advice. To be competent in using System one for computerised patient records and ensure notes are written up in a timely manner For further information please see the attached job description for full details of the job role and personal specification