To ensure the provision of effective and efficient therapy management to the patients within the specialty.   

To utilise enhanced and extended scope skills and be professionally and legally accountable for a highly specialised caseload.  

Decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands. 

To ensure safe and legal medicine management, in line individual competence, trust patient group direction and non-medical prescribing policies 

To work to Trust, Professional Body and Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) professional, legal and regulatory standards.  

Maintain an up-to-date working knowledge of relevant national clinical and regulatory standards to which quality of practice should be monitored. 

To use appropriate assessment tools, monitor progress and measure the outcomes of treatment for individual patients within the service.  

To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a highly-specialised programme of care.  

To evaluate and modify treatment plans according to patient needs, discharging them when appropriate. Seek advice from others when necessary and work without direct supervision. 

To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis.  

To provide spontaneous and planned expert advice, teaching and instruction to patients, relatives, carers, other disciplines, and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. 

To be a lead member of the multidisciplinary team and to attend case conferences  and ensure accurate documentation of the outcome of these meetings within the physiotherapy records. 

Keep accurate and up to date records of treatment and interventions in line with legal and departmental policy.  

To work flexibly across the physiotherapy teams to assist in maintaining physiotherapy cover to ensure a continuation of service. 

To undertake mandatory training, in accordance with Trust Policy. 

Ensure the Health and Safety of patients, carers and staff during therapy, managing clinical risk by identifying any potential problems and resolving these prior to, during or after treatment. 

To fully participate in any pattern of working that is required to meet the needs of the service in the future.  

All Clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent in line with guidance from their professional bodies. 

To educate patients/relatives/carers regarding the nature of the condition, and the aims of physiotherapy interventions, as part of an overall management plan. 

To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through continuing professional development opportunities.  

To participate in peer review as appropriate. 

To take an active role in appropriate research initiatives. 

In collaboration with the Pathway Leads, initiate implementation of new working practices.  

In collaboration with the Pathway Leads, to prepare, co-ordinate, participate, and contribute to the delivery of a specific in-service training programmes for staff in the designated pathway 

To undertake supervision and performance assessment of physiotherapists, therapy support workers, and physiotherapy students.  

To participate in mandatory/statutory training as required by the Trust and national standards.  

It is desirable that the postholder has completed or is working towards the Non-Medical Prescribing qualification. 

To demonstrate experience of planning and managing own caseload and monitoring that of other members of the team to provide the most efficient use of physiotherapy resources. 

To be aware of and able to implement nationally and locally agreed policies, standards and guidelines set by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC),  Trust and other national bodies. 

To be able to demonstrate awareness of Health and Safety policies and ensure implementation within this area including the prompt reporting of accidents and incidents by self and staff within the team. 

To understand clinical risk management and be able to apply to this area.  

To demonstrate active participation in CPD (Continuous Professional Development) by attending and presenting in departmental in-service training and to be able to promote CPD within the department. 

To be able to work flexibly in order to be able to deal with a number of different tasks and situations simultaneously and interchange between tasks and situations quickly and frequently during the day e.g. treating patients, answering emails and telephone calls, talking to patients, staff and relatives and being a source of advice and information. 

To be able to facilitate and undertake audit and quality improvement activity within the team and to analyse the outcomes of audit and their implications for the team.  

To manage day to day workload and maintain level of service within the pathway at the local site and assist other members of the team to make appropriate prioritisation choices. 

To participate in ensuring clear and open channels of communication exist within the physiotherapy pathway team. To ensure the cascade of received information including corporate, strategic ideas to all pathway staff 

To be responsible for management of informal conflicts, disagreements and complaints in the local site pathway by using highly developed negotiation skills 

To ensure all incidents, accidents and complaints within the specialty are reported and documented in the appropriate timeframe and in line with Trust policy. To ensure senior physiotherapy managers are made aware of all incidents, accidents and complaints. 

 To monitor the quality of care provided in the designated pathway at the local site and promote a culture of evidence-based practice within the team. 

To participate in the interpretation of professional and national standards for the speciality, recommending and implementing changes in clinical practice where indicated. 

To take responsibility for the regular inspection and safe use of equipment. To advise appropriate personnel of the need to review availability of suitable resources for patient care. To comply with Health & Safety requirements and follow the policy for safe disposal of equipment. 

To be aware of the cost/benefit implications in the selection and ordering of appropriate equipment to be provided to the patient for long term use as an individual and by the pathway team. 

To maintain and provide accurate and timely activity information both as an individual and for the designated specialty to help inform service delivery and evaluation 

To undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as requested by senior physiotherapy managers. 

This post is based on the Southmead Hospital site but may require the post holder to deliver the service from an alternative location across Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire (BNSSG).  

To undertake supervision, performance and day to day management of pathway staff who report to the post holder. 

To participate in the Trust individual performance review process as both appraiser and appraisee. To be responsible for the appraisal and professional development of designated pathway physiotherapy staff in line with the requirements of the Trust ensuring all team members have a comprehensive development plan 

To ensure that staff are aware of and comply with Trust policies and procedures undertaking action as necessary under relevant policies e.g. sickness management 

To be responsible for the clinical standards of the physiotherapy staff reporting to the post holder. 

To facilitate effective team working within the pathway, leading, assisting and supporting other team members. 

To deputise for senior staff where appropriate 

To assist in recruitment, selection and retention procedures for the therapy service 

To contribute to the clinical induction of therapy staff 

All contracted hours can be considered across a seven-day period.