Specialist Children’s Physiotherapy Practitioner

at  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

To act as a specialist clinician for the Childrens Therapy Service, supporting the clinical leads with developing and embedding best practice into the service whilst managing own specialist caseload and records.To undertake a defined range of high standard professional duties, within the Childrens Therapy Team, working within a range of settings such as clinics, nurseries, schools and the home. To carry out specialist assessments of babies and children with a range of neuro-developmental, neuro-muscular and neurological disabilities to develop an individualised treatment programme. To carry out specialist physiotherapeutic interventions to babies and children underpinned by the best available evidence and to educate and advise parents/carers to actively participate in the management of long term conditions. To share supervision with a more experienced practitioner and assess the performance of assistant practitioners, unqualified staff, peers and colleagues of junior rank or less experience, and physiotherapy students.
To hold responsibility for own case load working without direct supervision and within clearly defined operational policies and procedures. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, working within the ethical framework provided by the rules of professional conduct To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and teams clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical lead for changes to practice by the team. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols

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