Provides direct patient care, conducts a patient assessment and re-assessment, and establishes patient goals and care plans for physiotherapy services using different therapeutic techniques without or with the utilization of assistive medical devices and/or equipment. Promotes patient’s physical wellness and treatments that include the ability to move, to prevent or reduce pain, to enable and restore function and prevent physical disability. Collaborates and establishes working relationships along with other clinical individuals and/or multi-disciplinary teams to discuss the patient’s goals and plan of care to prevent the loss of physical functionality and mobility before it occurs by identifying the treatment, developing fitness and wellness-oriented programs to maintain a healthier and more active lifestyle of individual patients.
Treats patients according to the established goals and plan of care which are clinically indicated, appropriate and prescribed by the Consultant and/or the Physician and agreed upon by the patient and/or patient’s caregiver and following the clinical policy and procedures of the department. Provides clinical and technical support to Junior Physical Therapists, Physiotherapy Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Speech Pathologist, Respiratory Therapist and visiting student interns when required.