Job Description

- Helping patients recover from accident, illness or injury

- Organizing physical exercise sessions

- Keeping up to date with the latest advancements in the profession

- Providing education and advice about exercise and movement

Liaising with professionals such as doctors and nurses

Role & responsibilities

- To conduct activities of physical therapy program designed to treat disabled, injured or diseased patients.

- To establish reporting procedures and types of records to be maintained.

- To compile statistical data from experts.

- To consult with physicians regarding treatments and schedules patients for treatment in accordance with available personnel and equipment.

- To assign cases to Jr. therapist (In case, if any), indicating type and specifications of treatment, type of equipment or therapeutic devices required.

- To observe personnel in performance of duties to evaluate efficiency, skill, abilities and attitudes toward fellow workers and patients for use in recommending personal actions and determining effectiveness of methods.

- To introduce and demonstrate new techniques.

- To observe patients' actions and reactions to prescribed treatment and evaluate progress.

- To train new personnel; lecture students and nurses to discuss and evaluate patients' condition, progress, and plans for further therapy.

- To instruct and demonstrate to outpatients exercises to be performed at home.

- To maintain inventories and requisitions supplies and equipment.

- To process requisition repairs for equipment and facilities.

To work with the hospital information system and other information technology resources and software as may be assigned on a periodic basis from time to time as per attached appendix.

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