Senior Physiotherapist📣 إعلان

About the Role

AMAD Hospital is seeking a Senior Physiotherapist to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position involves providing comprehensive physiotherapy services to patients experiencing physical difficulties due to illness, injury, disability, or aging, with the aim of improving their physical function and overall well-being.

Core Responsibilities

The Senior Physiotherapist will be responsible for delivering physiotherapy services in line with international standards. This includes assessing, re-evaluating, treating, and intervening with in-patients, outpatients, and home service patients. The role involves developing, implementing, and modifying individualized treatment plans based on patient assessments and diagnoses, and utilizing recognized outcome measures to evaluate treatment effectiveness. Patients will be educated on exercise techniques, ergonomics, posture, and injury prevention, with an emphasis on encouraging active participation in their rehabilitation and self-management.

Clinical and Technical Duties

• Managing a designated clinical caseload, including complex patients, and prioritizing work efficiently based on clinical and service priorities.
• Providing individual patient equipment, such as walking aids, splints, and supports, ensuring safety and compliance with relevant guidelines and insurance approval processes.
• Advising, guiding, and teaching junior staff in patient assessment, management, and other clinical practice aspects.
• Participating in on-call duties, weekend shifts, and covering statutory and public holidays, including working as a lone physiotherapy practitioner at night.
• Updating other healthcare providers on patient condition changes.
• Collaborating with physicians, occupational therapists, and other healthcare professionals to develop integrated treatment plans.
• Referring patients to other specialists as necessary to ensure comprehensive care.
• Utilizing evidence-based practice to develop and implement standards that guide practice improvement initiatives.
• Using unit resources in a cost-effective and responsible manner.
• Actively participating in processes to ensure the organization achieves and maintains CBAHI status or other rehabilitation accreditations.

Managerial and Administrative Contributions

• Contributing to the development of therapy service standards and ensuring their consistent adherence.
• Acting as a role model and delivering high clinical and operational performance standards by developing and supporting multidisciplinary therapy teams.
• Collaborating with nursing, allied health staff, interdisciplinary teams, and other stakeholders in program and service development, implementation, and evaluation.
• Marketing, promoting, and profiling the service to patients, referrers, and the general public.
• Ensuring the reporting of all adverse events, incidents, and near misses.
• Contributing to investigations of complaints and incidents and drafting timely responses.
• Monitoring key performance indicators and developing action plans as required.

Quality and Safety Assurance

• Maintaining accurate and timely documentation of patient assessments, treatment plans, and progress notes.
• Participating in quality management activities and personal accountability, including the accreditation process.
• Contributing to quality assurance activities and the improvement of departmental protocols and practices.
• Evaluating factors related to safety, outcomes, effectiveness, cost, and social impact when developing and implementing practice innovations.
• Participating in the Hospital’s Quality and Audit Programmes and evaluating the impact of new practices.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in physiotherapy. The role requires a commitment to delivering international standards of care and a strong understanding of national and international physiotherapy practices, policies, and procedures.