To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records in line with the organizational standards of practice
Ensure that your own practice meets the required professional standards of practice
To be accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care and to ensure a high standard of clinical care supporting other staff to do likewise
Ensures safety at discharge and continuation of progress by providing, home exercise programs, family/caregiver instruction, recommendations for assistive equipment and recommendations for continued therapy in a less restrictive setting
Formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive discharge plans, liaising with doctors/ consultants as appropriate
To represent department / colleagues internally and externally regarding speech and swallowing services in their clinical field
Assessment principles to clinical practice
To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload
Good team working skills combined with understanding of and commitment to multidisciplinary working
Acts independently and continually reassesses patients making highly skilled evaluations and decisions regarding treatment options within group and individual work in order to progress treatments and management strategies effectively
Assesses the client’s functional abilities, including physical, emotional, cognitive and sensory components to evaluate the necessity of skilled occupational therapy inventions
To work as an independent clinical professional with knowledge and skills, problem solving and clinical reasoning in a specialist area
To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessments and manual treatment of patients
Applying interventions to maximize safety and performance in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)
Helps the client achieve goals set forth in the treatment plan by providing neuromuscular re-education, therapeutic activity, self-care/home management training, and sensory integration techniques, wheelchair management, and wound care
Constantly update knowledge & practical skills in the field of Physiotherapy, ergonomics and rehabilitation
Helping patients recover from accident, illness or injury
