Physical Therapist

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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Pelvic Floor Therapy

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree of Science in Physiotherapy and/or Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy
• Current license of practice in country of origin or country point of hire and/or Dubai Health Authority (DHA), United Arab Emirates
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience post-certification as a Junior Physiotherapist/Physical Therapist
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills