Experience

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  Lady ridgway hospital, colombo, sri lanka

  May 2010 - now

  Senior physiotherapist

  Duties and responsibilities• Undertaking advanced clinical assessments of patients and using clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of the specific problems related to physiotherapy intervention.• Designing and delivering an individualized programme of intervention based on sound knowledge of evidenced-based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills, and knowledge of treatment options.• Independently managing caseloads of patients with particular conditions and being responsible for providing specialist assessment, treatment, and discharge plans.• Developing comprehensive discharge/transfer plans as appropriate• Evaluating the patient’s progress, reassessing and altering treatment programmes as required, monitoring effect using sound measurement and validated outcome measures.• Work with good knowledge of international standards and monitor own and others' quality of practice as required.• Being responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records in line with standards of practice• Presenting the individual patient at various multi-disciplinary meetings, to ensure the delivery of an integrated approach to treatment. This involves discussion of the patient’s progress, aims and objectives, treatment planning plus discharge / transfer arrangements as appropriate.• Being responsible for the assessment, safe and competent use of all equipment including aids for daily living, seating and positioning equipment and appliances, and ensuring that assistants/children/carers using such equipment attain competency in their use through training and supervision.• Communicating with other agencies such as Social Services and Local Education Authorities to provision of appropriate equipment in the community.• Being an active member of the respiratory weekend on-call rotation inwards and ICU (Medical, surgical, neonatal, Cardio-thoracic) Show less