Job description:
- Provides physiotherapy services equivalent to twenty-six (26) sessions and/or Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes and with each session limited to 15 minutes that may include any of the following modalities listed below:
- Patient Initial Assessment and Re-assessment
- Cryotherapy/Heat Therapy
- Manual Therapy
- Massage Therapy
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
- Therapeutic Exercises
- Ultrasound Therapy
- Interferential Therapy
- Mechanical Traction Therapy
- Electrical Current Therapy
- Gait Training Therapy
- Lymphatic Edema Therapy
- Participates in the department staff meetings and unit projects, and implements/evaluates creative approaches to meeting goals.
- Performs additional duties and/or tasks as specified and/or assigned by the Director, Asst. Director, ARC Manager, ARC Team Leader and/or the ARC Senior Physiotherapist.
- Assists as a clinical resource to the patient, patient’s relatives and/or caregiver, junior Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapist, Nursing, Speech Pathologist and other medical staff.
- Ensures full compliance with the safety requirements of physiotherapy medical equipment, performs functional and calibration checks and ensures that all medical equipment for repair is reported to the Biomedical Engineer and the follow-up repair required is processed and completed.
- Maintains the availability of physiotherapy medical equipment for patient utilization, performs daily and monthly inventory and ensures that this equipment is placed and/or stored in the designated areas.
- Ensures full compliance with the safety and availability of physiotherapy medical supplies minimizes medical supplies losses and reports to the Materials Management Department all supply replacements, expiry and losses requirements.
