Locum Physiotherapist
Healthcare, Pharmacy, Doctors Jobs
- Ponai Medical Centre - Avonda…
- Expires 21 Feb 2025
- Harare
- Part Time
Job Description
Avondale Urgent Care Clinic seeks a suitable candidate to fill the Physiotherapist post.
Duties and Responsibilities
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of 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.
Consult with physicians and/or nursing staff via telephone regarding orders, interactions and additionally patient reactions to treatment.
With appropriate support, to formulate prognosis and recommend best course of intervention, developing discharge plans.
To formulate and deliver individual and group physiotherapy treatment programmes based upon knowledge of the evidence of the treatment options available. This commonly involves manual physiotherapy techniques.
To evaluate a patient’s progress, re-assess and alter treatment programmes if required, developing reflective practice.
Plan and prioritise own patient case load
To represent the physiotherapy/individual patients at MDT meetings. This involves discussion of patient care, patient progress and involvement in discharge planning.
To determine the patients’ understanding of treatment proposals to ensure patient consent. To understand and work within legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
To encourage patients and their carers to engage in an active approach to regaining and maintaining independence. This requires empathy, sensitivity and good interpersonal skills.
Work independently to provide emergency respiratory on-call care to support delivery of the 24hr service to acutely ill and ventilated patients.
To market the practice effectively to ensure growth of the business unit
Qualifications and Experience
A degree in Physiotherapy and a year of post graduate experience
How to Apply
To apply, please send your CV in word format and cover letter to Administator : ponai.documents@gmail.com
State the job title in the subject column. Due date 22 February 2025.
