Physiotherapist

Main Purpose

• Plan and carry out individual treatment programmes, by assessing patients’ physical state, in order to maintain, improve or rehabilitate the physical well-being of the patient and prevent physical handicaps.

Accountabilities

• Assess patient physical capacities, using different procedures (e.g. functional capacity tests) in order to set up treatment objectives with the patient and improve patient's health and wellbeing.
• Apply a bio-psychosocial approach to patient care
• Elaborate and implement physiotherapy programmes, including physiotherapy exercises, mobilisation, massage, education, utilization of physiotherapy devices and orthopedic equipment, educating and advising patients and their carers on how to prevent and/or improve conditions, in order to accelerate and improve activity results, when required joint / group sessions with other multi-disciplinary team members
• Train patients and care-takers on how to avoid injury in order to create preventive behaviors.
• Actively monitor and report physiotherapy activities (correctly filling in patient files, forms, statistics, and reports) and analyze these statistics in order to improve quality service, preserving patient’s data traceability.
• Actively participate in Multi-disciplinary team patient management
• Take care of physiotherapy equipment, managing the stock, making orders according to activity and cleaning up the equipment, in order to ensure its continuous availability and quality of service.
• Report to the supervisor any problem arising in the service, especially the loss/ robbery/damage of medical equipment or medicines in order to implement the appropriate measures.