Physiotherapist - Rehabilitation (STMC)

Role Overview

Physiotherapist - Rehabilitation (STMC) at SEHA, providing safe, effective, evidence-based, and comprehensive physiotherapy services.

Role Purpose

Deliver specialized physiotherapy treatment and rehabilitation services to patients in acute care and rehabilitation settings, utilizing advanced clinical assessment and evidence-based practice to optimize patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Assessment & Treatment

• Undertake comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with diverse or complex multi-pathology presentations, using highly specialized and advanced clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide accurate physiotherapy diagnosis.
• Formulate and deliver highly specialized individual physiotherapy treatment programs based on sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options using advanced clinical assessment and reasoning skills, including manual techniques, electrotherapy, patient education, appliances, exercise classes, and other alternative options.
• Formulate accurate physiotherapy prognoses, recommend best course of intervention, and develop comprehensive discharge plans.
• Test and measure patients' function including strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, and respiratory and circulatory efficiency, and record the data.
• Evaluate patient progress, re-assess, and alter treatment programs if required, gathering, collating, and analyzing information needed to solve a variety of clinical and professional problems at a highly advanced level.
• Use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to progress rehabilitation and treatment programs, including patients with difficulties in understanding or communicating (for example, patients who are mentally unwell, dysphasic, depressed, deaf, or blind).
• Travel with patients whenever required within and outside the United Arab Emirates for physiotherapy treatment.
• Perform home physiotherapy as required.
• Interpret for patients if bilingual and required.

Managerial & Supervision

• Work in an interdisciplinary manner, communicating and collaborating with physiotherapy colleagues and other healthcare staff where combined treatment and/or management is indicated.
• Supervise junior staff and ensure their adherence to ongoing policies and procedures as applied and implemented in the Section/Department/Facility as per requirement.
• Deputize for Senior Physiotherapist if requested.
• Maintain sufficient inventory of material supplies and equipment for performance of duties.
• Report shortage of materials to supervisor at earliest convenience, order and approve replenishments when necessary.

Quality, Safety & Compliance

• Be responsible for the safe and competent use of all electrotherapy equipment, gym equipment, pool equipment, and patient appliances and aids by patients and ensure that junior staff/assistants attain competency prior to use.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day safe and competent use of equipment in own area, which may be of high value, used by patients and staff.
• Promote and maintain quality in all services and ensure continuous quality improvement measures are in place; conduct method evaluation/development as per standard policies and procedures.
• Comply with all safety, health, and quality control programs and procedures as applicable.
• Comply with applicable precautions for environmental safety and infection control, using a series of interventions that minimize or prevent cross-infection.
• Maintain the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded.
• Practice within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures.
• Ensure that Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) and Quality Assurance tests are maintained within all sections.
• Document all interventions in appropriate format.
• Comply with and support clinical audit processes within the service and report on these as agreed.
• Safeguard patients against misuse of power that leads to patient abuse, including physical, mental, sexual, or neglect.

Stakeholder Communication

• Communicate in a professional and courteous manner with patients, family, and other care providers as necessary to explain procedures, clarify orders, and communicate status.
• Interact courteously with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers when answering questions or providing other information.

Education

• Assist in training of students if required.

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Not less than 2 years as a Physiotherapist in a large hospital with relevant experience treating patients with the same diagnoses seen in acute care hospitals or rehabilitation facilities.

Desired

• Wide background preferred (for example, ICU, acute medical/surgical) with 1 year of demonstrated leadership.

Additional Information

• Responsibilities stated above must not be considered exclusive of any duties which are not specifically stated.
• Employee will be expected to accept any other duties which are consistent with qualifications, experience, and ability when requested by superior.