Overview
Support and assist the well-being of individuals and groups to assure their protection, security and development.
Responsibilities
* Safeguarding, protection and care
* Community, residential, day or field settings
* Ongoing risk/needs assessment of and advice for individuals/groups
* Specification of any non-council provision
* Individual or small group emphasis
* May involve personal care activities
* Likely to involve immediate response to client
* The overall responsibilities of the service/function are: As a physiotherapist, you\'ll focus on identifying and maximising movement to improve the health and wellbeing of your patients. Your role is vital in working with a variety of conditions such as:
* neurological (stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson\'s).
* neuromusculoskeletal (back pain, fractures, arthritis).
* Post hospital discharge recuperation collaboratively with Reablement support team.
* Proactively working to encourage transfers and mobility, provide comprehensive assessment, treatment, management, onward referral, and discharge for a diverse range of customers referred to the service, ensuring each receives appropriate advice and/or signposting for onward support.
* Prioritise workload while managing the demands of customer needs, families, other professional staff, and agencies, adapting to an increasing caseload complexity and delivering the service in a way that suits the customers preferred communication method.
* Maintain professional record-keeping standards, ensuring records are accurate, current, and aligned with professional codes as detailed by HCPC and Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP), service standards, and organisational requirements.
* Plan and implement treatment support plans based on assessment results, applying clinical reasoning skills, and adjust these plans as needed based on customer progress.
* Ensure informed consent for assessments and treatments, providing customers with a clear understanding of their condition and rehabilitation potential, and assess their capacity to consent to treatment, with due consideration to insight where capacity is questioned or potentially affected as result of cognitive or other impairment.
* Monitor and review customer progress, adjusting support plans and treatment goals as needed based on review outcomes to ensure the most effective approach is being utilised.
Notes
The original governance and council-related content has been removed as it is not relevant to the clinical role description.
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