Job Description

To undertake the role of an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP), utilizing high levels of decision making and clinical judgment, ensuring that patient health needs are met through the diagnosis and the management of complex patient conditions including assessment, treatment and review planning processes in partnership with patients and families.

Provide specialist advice to healthcare professionals, other agencies, careers, clients and relatives. The APP role encompasses that of expert clinician, educator and auditor.

Take a key role in leading and developing the service to improve practice and work collaboratively, implementing and evaluating evidence based standards, guidelines and policies.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To identify and be actively involved in audit and research activity which will contribute to the development of the service. This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.