Hand Therapist ( Occupational therapist/Physiotherapist)

at  Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

1. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of the practitioners professional duties. 2. To provide comprehensive and ongoing assessment for each patient in areas including movement, function, dexterity, oedema, pain and sensation.
2. To maintain accurate, up to date and comprehensive patient treatment records detailing individual assessment and treatment plans and progress using the standard hand therapy documentation protocol. 4. To ensure the patient, their family and carers are involved in the planning and delivery of their own care.
3. To plan and implement appropriate treatment regimes using hand therapy treatment media (using modalities from both physiotherapy and occupational therapy). 6. To evaluate clinical outcomes.
4. To provide a theoretical background for each patient about their injury/disease and, where appropriate, to advise the patients for future management. 8. To accompany patients to their consultant appointments when appropriate and liaise with the consultants regarding the progress of their patients.
5. To provide timely and accurate reports, with the patients consent, to external organisations e.g. factual reports for legal purposes regarding the patients medical condition. 10.
   To maintain accurate and up-to-date records on patient treatment in accordance with the HCPC guidelines and standards for record keeping and to ensure that more junior and unqualified staff do likewise. 11. To set and maintain a high personal standard of work and ensure more junior and unqualified staff do the same, in order to teach them to monitor their standards. 12.
   To communicate appropriate complex information effectively to patients and/or carers, from a multicultural and ethnically diverse population, where there may also be medical barriers to their understanding (this may involve the use of interpreters and/or non-verbal communication aids). To inform them of the benefits and risks of suggested treatment options and to gain valid informed consen

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