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1. To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
   2. To be able to perform a competent assessment of patients, including those with multiple pathologies, using clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to formulate a diagnosis based on the clinical findings of their condition. Working with access to direct supervision from a more senior physiotherapist.
   3. To comply with the organisation and departmental guidelines, protocols and policies, whilst adhering to Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) guidelines and Health Professions Council (HPC) requirements.
   4. Assess patient understanding of suggested physiotherapy management/rehabilitation programme, gain valid informed consent and to have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who are unable to consent to treatment.
2. 5. Use outcome measures and evidence based practice as part of clinical approach.
   6. Through experiential knowledge and clinical reasoning, be able to identify patient needs and help the patient to form goals and plans for interventions using evidence based practise.
   7. Complete a wide range of interventions including giving advice and support, home activity or clinic based programmes, rehabilitation, treatment, and equipment provision.
   8. Continuing evaluation and reassessment of patient progress and the altering of treatment programmes if required.
   9. To maintain a dynamic caseload with effective discharge planning and onward referral to other services if required.
   10. To be responsible for maintaining accurate and evaluative / comprehensive patient records in accordance with the Service / organisation standards on record keeping, and in line with CSP standards of practice.
   11. To assist in the guidance and training of student Physiotherapists to adhere to best practice and to support students from other professional groups who may be visiting the service.
   12. Ensure own clinical credibility through professional accountability and maintain clinical skills
   
   13. To maintain clinical Governance Standards through audit, research and evidence gathering.
   14. To work in line with the RCP National Stroke Guidelines, Stroke Strategy, NHS Improvement Plan, NSF for People with Long term Conditions and appropriate NICE guidance.
3. 1. To communicate in an appropriate, professional and sensitive manner with service users, their relatives and carers, as well as communicating effectively with colleagues, peers, senior managers and clinical leads within the Trust.
   2. To be able to communicate information of a complex, sensitive or contentious nature, or information that may be perceived as unwelcome to a patient and their family/representative regarding; their mobility, expectations of rehabilitation or the degenerative nature of the patient’s condition.
   3. To anticipate barriers to communications and resistance to change and to be able to manager these effectively, liaising and seeking appropriate support as required.
   4. To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care, including negotiation skills, persuasion and diplomacy.
   5. Networking with other multi-disciplinary, statutory, private and voluntary organisations, users, carers and assisting in managing the interfaces between them.

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium.  Please visit; https://www.capitalnurselondon.co.uk/how-to-apply/. Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly.  You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for some job roles, and this will be identified through filtering questions at the start of any job application on the Trac recruitment system.