Senior Therapist

1 month ago

Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work including management of patient caseloads. Formulate and develop individual treatment programmes underpinned by sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and using a range of treatment options. Use clinical reasoning skills and evaluate outcomes of treatments to continually reassess and develop treatment programmes. Establish an accurate prognosis and recommend best course of treatments in addition to developing comprehensive treatment and discharge plans.

Use a large range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate with patients to progress and gain participation with rehabilitation treatment programmes. This will include patients who have difficulties in understanding and communicating. To be responsible for management of clinical risk of your own caseload. To work within Trust and Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT) guidelines, or Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP) and have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and other working practices in liaison with Senior Therapists To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all equipment.

To be responsible for maintaining own competencies through CPD activities. To be responsible for teaching student therapists to graduate level on knowledge and skills within your department. To provide support, guidance and training to junior staff and assistants and contribute to their performance assessment and appraisal. To participate in staff appraisal scheme as an appraisee and be responsible for complying with agreed personal development plan to meet objectives and competencies.

To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence-based practice in the area of Hand Therapy, developing specialist knowledge of related conditions. To participate in audit/evidence-based projects/research to help develop improvements to service delivery and clinical practice, under guidance of senior staff. Be an active member of the departments In-Service Training Programme To be responsible for organisation and planning of own caseload to meet service and patient priorities. Re-adjusting plans as situations change, arise and interruptions change priorities.

To comply with all relevant Trust policies procedures, Professional standards and guidelines RCOT and /or CSP and the relevant Code of Conduct (HCPC). This will including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and attend all mandatory training. This job description should be regarded as a guideline to the duties to be undertaken and not intended to be definitive or restrictive in any way. The content of this job description will be regularly reviewed and may be revised in light of changing circumstances following consultation with the post holder.

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