Physiotherapist Job in One Life Healthcare

Physiotherapist

To provide physiotherapy home visit service to patients who require neurological, orthopaedic, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitations.

Location: Chennai

Job Description:

Title: Physiotherapist

Reports to: Senior Physiotherapist

Job Purpose:

To provide physiotherapy home visit service to patients who require neurological, orthopaedic, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitations. Also to treat and manage musculoskeletal injuries including sports related inuries

Job Summary:

To perform physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse and complex conditions, to provide a physiotherapy diagnosis and to develop and deliver a patient focused treatment programme at patient s residence.

Job Timings: Monday to Sunday with weekly rotational offs and shifts from 8am to 8pm

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical Responsibilities

• To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care
• To undertake an assessment of patients, using clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide a physiotherapy diagnosis of their condition.
• With appropriate support, to formulate prognosis and recommend best course of treatment suitable.
• To formulate and deliver individual physiotherapy treatment programme based upon the treatment options available. This commonly involves manual physiotherapy techniques.
• To evaluate a patients progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes if required, developing reflective practice.
• To follow the daily schedule as deemed by the team, for regular patient visits and assessments adhering strictly to the time frame.
• To represent patients at clinical review meetings. This will involve discussion of patient care, patient progress and any patient concerns and staff concerns.
• To counsel the patients /attenders understanding of treatment proposals to ensure valid patient consent and expectations.
• Encourage patients and their attenders in an active approach to regaining and maintaining independence, and doing so with empathy, sensitivity and good interpersonal skills.
• Be highly skilled in communicating with patients of all ages who have a range of physical and psychological barriers to understanding.
• To work within established Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and to have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own quality of practice.
• To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient treatment and progress records in line with the established MRD norms.
• To attain competencies for the safe use of all equipment and techniques before use.

Professional

• To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through CPD activities, maintaining a portfolio, which reflects personal development
• To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence based/best practice.
• To deliver specific training to physiotherapy assistants and other health care professionals.
• To provide support, guidance and training to physiotherapy assistants.

Organisational

• Ensure that your own practice meets the required professional standards of physiotherapy practice
• To be responsible for own time management in planning caseload to meet service and patient priorities.

Effort

• Carry out assessments and treatments of patients with musculo-skeletal conditions requiring moderate to intense physical effort on a daily basis.
• To deal sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain or limited mobility.
• To work alone during participation in the on-call service assessing and managing risk