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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY DUTIES

·       To work within Trust clinical guidelines, HCPC and Registrant Body guidelines and to have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practise against these.

·       To demonstrate as appropriate to role highly developed physical skills for assessment and treatment of patients e.g., dexterity, co-ordination, palpatory and other senses.

·       To deputise for senior staff in leading specific team.

 CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

·       To communicate complex patient and service-related information effectively to Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues and third sector agencies.

·       Use complex communication skills and knowledge when working with patients, their families and other provider agencies.

·       To involve the patient and the family/carers in all relevant discussions about their management and decisions that are made about treatment techniques and facilitating patient involvement in the planning, development, delivery, and evaluation of the service.

·       To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.

·       Delivering high level and complex triage, clinical assessment, diagnostics, treatment, and evaluation of the needs within the trust.

·       Providing leadership; promoting a learning culture for colleagues and other agencies; leading service innovations and demonstrating high level problem solving.

·       Ensuring excellence in service delivery through personal and service development, underpinned by evidence-based practice and research, embedded in the quality assurance agenda.

·       Driving innovation; managing the change process to ensure your service continues to be flexible and proactive to reflect the needs of the trust.

·       To triage patients with complex needs.

·       To undertake complex clinical assessments of patients/ service users within sphere of advanced practice.

·       To determine a clinical diagnosis and make high level decisions regarding appropriate treatment/ care plans.

·       Implement complex care/ interventions according to clinical need.

·       Evaluate complex care/ interventions based on evidence from clinical outcomes and best practice.

·       To provide advanced clinical advice, support and training to patients/ service users, families, carers, and professional colleagues to improve their journey and their health and wellbeing.

·       To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.

·       To develop and maintain the high-level clinical skills required to work as an advanced practitioner.

 ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

·       To maintain accurate, comprehensive, and up to date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.

·       To collect appropriate data and statistics for the use in the review of the service delivery.

·       To use appropriate information technology skills for communication when required.

 TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES

·       To deliver relevant, evidence-based training to patients, families, carers, and trust staff.

·       To provide specific training as required to the patient, family, carers, and other members of the multidisciplinary team on the clinical and therapeutic management of an individual to support their health and wellbeing.

·       To supervise and performance manage a range of clinical and non-clinical staff (including students) as required to do so. Taking into account the breadth of knowledge, skills and experience held and required.

·       To attend and contribute to local and national conferences and special interest groups within sphere of practice.

·       To maintain own CPD by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work, supporting other staff with their CPD.

 LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

·       To demonstrate leadership by means of:

• Delivering change within sphere of practice, when and where indicated, to improve service delivery.
• Influencing, motivating, supporting, and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the trust.

·       To provide high level advice and guidance in working with colleagues locally to ensure best practice across all disciplines in the assessment, treatment, and long-term management of patients/ service users within sphere of practice.

·       To identify innovations and lead the implementation of new working practices in conjunction with patients/ service users, health, wellbeing, local authority and third sector partners.

·       To take responsibility for their own high level and complex decision making and the decisions of their team which effect service delivery.

 RESEARCH & AUDIT

·       Registered Practitioners are required to evidence maintenance of their registration with the relevant regulatory body and work to their Code of Professional Conduct.

·       To benchmark current service delivery against local and national clinical guidelines and standards of care.

·       To lead on current best practice, based on the bench marking outcomes.

·       To translate local and national guidelines and train staff to ensure they have the skills and knowledge required to deliver effective services.

·       To measure and evaluate own work and current practices through the use of evidence-based projects, audit, research, statistical information and outcome measures and lead others in doing so.

·       To network with practitioner colleagues within the trust and across the North West and Nationally, to learn together and share good practice.

·       To interpret and implement quality assurance practices within own work situation.