To plan, supervise & deliver highest standard of physiotherapy services to patients. Maximizes a patient's functional independence through thorough assessment, treatment planning, treatment implementation and treatment evaluation & communicate assessment and treatment outcomes with the interdisciplinary team through documentation and team meetings.
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Job Responsibilities:
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1) Continuum of Care
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- Ascertain appropriate information regarding the present problem
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- Assess the patients current functional status
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- Planning all treatment procedures
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- Treatment implementation
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- Treatment evaluation
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- Ensures protected and effective discharge planning for all patients
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2) Leadership and Management
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- Participates in continuing education to update skills and knowledge in order to provide optimum level of patient care and student supervision.
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- Ensures implementation of departmental policies and procedures
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- Participates in Departmental and Organizational meetings,
other meetings as required
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- Actively participate in team activities
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- Organizes and implement in-service training sessions for staff, the physiotherapy assistant and volunteers
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- Teaches appropriately and supervises physiotherapy students and provide regular feedback and documentation of the clinical placement required
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3) Information Management
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- Manages and maintains information relevant to physiotherapy services
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- Records accurate statistics within the last working day of each pay fortnight or as appropriate
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- Notes written in patients records according to Policy and Procedure manual within 24 hours of service
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- Adheres to the policies for use of Information Technology
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- Supervises the recording of statistics and documentation by the physiotherapy students
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- Providing home care program discharge instructions
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- Documenting the patient details in register and entering the