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