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Physiotherapist Full Time
Job Description
- Professional Responsibility:
- Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work.
- Ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients under your care and support other team members to do the same.
- Specialist Physiotherapy Assessment:
- Undertake a comprehensive, highly specialist physiotherapy assessment of patients, including those with complex presentations, using advanced investigative and analytical skills.
- Treatment Techniques:
- Select appropriate treatment techniques such as facilitation of normal movement, therapeutic handling, gait re-education, chest physiotherapy, etc.
- Clinical Reasoning & Treatment Plans:
- Use advanced clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills to formulate individual management and specialist treatment plans, in agreement with the patient when appropriate.
- Patient Condition Review:
- Review and evaluate the patient’s condition at each physiotherapy session and amend the treatment program as necessary to achieve planned objectives.
- Collaboration:
- Work with members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure optimal outcomes for the patient.
- Skill Maintenance:
- Consolidate and maintain highly specialist skills in relation to assessment and treatment of your specialty area.
- Patient & Caregiver Education:
- Provide advice, teaching, and instruction to patients, relatives, and carers regarding their medical management and care needs, ensuring a consistent approach to patient care.
- Promote understanding of physiotherapy aims.
- Effective Communication:
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, addressing cultural, religious, and language barriers to maximize rehabilitation potential, ensure understanding of the condition, and address anxieties and concerns.
- Use persuasion, motivation, explanation, and informed consent techniques with a wide variety of patients.
- Teamwork:
- Work as a flexible member of the rehab team and communicate effectively with other team members.
Responsibilities
- Professional Responsibility:
- Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work.
- Ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients under your care and support other team members to do the same.
- Specialist Physiotherapy Assessment:
- Undertake a comprehensive, highly specialist physiotherapy assessment of patients, including those with complex presentations, using advanced investigative and analytical skills.
- Treatment Techniques:
- Select appropriate treatment techniques such as facilitation of normal movement, therapeutic handling, gait re-education, chest physiotherapy, etc.
- Clinical Reasoning & Treatment Plans:
- Use advanced clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills to formulate individual management and specialist treatment plans, in agreement with the patient when appropriate.
- Patient Condition Review:
- Review and evaluate the patient’s condition at each physiotherapy session and amend the treatment program as necessary to achieve planned objectives.
- Collaboration:
- Work with members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure optimal outcomes for the patient.
- Skill Maintenance:
- Consolidate and maintain highly specialist skills in relation to assessment and treatment of your specialty area.
- Patient & Caregiver Education:
- Provide advice, teaching, and instruction to patients, relatives, and carers regarding their medical management and care needs, ensuring a consistent approach to patient care.
- Promote understanding of physiotherapy aims.
- Effective Communication:
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, addressing cultural, religious, and language barriers to maximize rehabilitation potential, ensure understanding of the condition, and address anxieties and concerns.
- Use persuasion, motivation, explanation, and informed consent techniques with a wide variety of patients.
- Teamwork:
- Work as a flexible member of the rehab team and communicate effectively with other team members.
Qualifications
- Degree or Diploma in PT
- 2 years clinical experience
- DOH and Home country licensure
- Neuro-rehab (adults and pediatrics), Respiratory ICU
- Experience in the field of Respiratory Medicine, neurological rehabilitation and multidisciplinary working
- Excellent English language skills, Arabic would be an advantage.
- Participation in Physiotherapy Quality improvement activities.
- Good report writing, computer, communication and Interpersonal skills.
