Junior Physiotherapist

Job description

What you will do

• To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records in line with the organizational standards of practice
• Ensure that your own practice meets the required professional standards of practice
• To be accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care and to ensure a high standard of clinical care supporting other staff to do likewise
• Ensures safety at discharge and continuation of progress by providing, home exercise programs, family/caregiver instruction, recommendations for assistive equipment and recommendations for continued therapy in a less restrictive setting
• Formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive discharge plans, liaising with doctors/ consultants as appropriate
• To represent department / colleagues internally and externally regarding speech and swallowing services in their clinical field
• Assessment principles to clinical practice
• To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload
• Good team working skills combined with understanding of and commitment to multidisciplinary working
• Acts independently and continually reassesses patients making highly skilled evaluations and decisions regarding treatment options within group and individual work in order to progress treatments and management strategies effectively
• Assesses the client’s functional abilities, including physical, emotional, cognitive and sensory components to evaluate the necessity of skilled occupational therapy inventions
• To work as an independent clinical professional with knowledge and skills, problem solving and clinical reasoning in a specialist area
• To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessments and manual treatment of patients
• Applying interventions to maximize safety and performance in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)
• Helps the client achieve goals set forth in the treatment plan by providing neuromuscular re-education, therapeutic activity, self-care/home management training, and sensory integration techniques, wheelchair management, and wound care
• Constantly update knowledge & practical skills in the field of Physiotherapy, ergonomics and rehabilitation
• Helping patients recover from accident, illness or injury

Job details

How to apply

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