CYPS Community Respiratory Physiotherapist
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner To plan and organise own work load 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 and accurate respiratory assessment of children, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical and clinical reasoning skills To formulate individualised respiratory management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care for use in the community To undertake evaluation of patient progress, reassess and alter physiotherapy management programmes as required To provide spontaneous and planned advice, problem solving expertise, teaching and instruction to families, carers, other disciplines and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the respiratory management programme across all areas of the childs daily environment To participate in and where appropriate initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria To participate in the collection of data for audit purposes To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment/management outcomes To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence-based practice and research as appropriate To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice To participate in clinics appropriate to the childs physiotherapy respiratory management To work to Trust and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored To assist the Service lead with the prioritisation and management of the departmental patient caseload
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