Senior Physiotherapist Position

Principal Physiotherapist, Head of Department

Woodlands Health envisions personalized and quality healthcare for the community of the future. It will co-develop and integrate services with community stakeholders and extend care beyond the hospital into the community and homes.

The physiotherapist helps patients restore mobility, function, and independence through detailed assessment of problems and individualized treatment. Physiotherapists manage a wide range of conditions, with expertise in mobilization techniques and manual therapy, exercise prescription, electrotherapy, balance and gait training, and education on health-promoting strategies.

The physiotherapist works within the context of a multi-disciplinary team. Examples include collaboration with sports medicine physicians to address sports-related injuries and geriatricians in the rehabilitation of geriatric patients. A physiotherapist must ensure a high standard of clinical practice and professional conduct in all areas of patient care and proactively participate in continuous professional development and evidence-based practice.

Key Responsibilities

• In physiotherapy services, the principal physiotherapist must have general clinical competences below (though not exclusive to this list) and had attained the specific area of competency for their specialty area.
• Manage a wide range of conditions, with expertise in mobilization techniques and manual therapy, exercise prescription, electrotherapy, balance and gait training, and education on health-promoting strategies.
• Collaborate with sports medicine physicians to address sports-related injuries and geriatricians in the rehabilitation of geriatric patients.

Responsibilities include:

• Developing skills and competency in self-management and compliance to medico-legal and governance guidelines.
• Being responsible for the department and individual caseload.
• Planning and allocating manpower resource and coverage based on departmental needs.
• Maintaining accurate, up-to-date medical records in continuity of care.
• Ensuring team compliance to hospital policies.
• Captitalizing on hospital technology to improve departmental processes and workflows.
• Maintaining and monitoring departmental and hospital KPIs.
• Coordinating processes and flows within teams which includes understanding each area's operations.

Administrative Competencies and Duties

• Assist in the regulation of the finances and workload of the physiotherapy section to ensure cost-effectiveness and productivity.
• Plan and develop services under the guidance of the Supervisor/Manager.
• Assist to evaluate manpower needs and assist in the recruitment of new staff.
• Set directions for sub-team development with considerations to SWOT analysis and directions set by the Supervisor/Manager and above.

Demonstration of Teamwork and Professionalism

• Principal physiotherapists are members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Engage actively and lead the team in patient and care-giver education.
• Be proactive in assisting Supervisor/Manager in managing team workload and coverage.
• Assist or lead departmental meetings, ward rounds, and other professional meetings.
• Liaise and maintain good working relations with other healthcare professionals within the hospital and with external organizations.

Benefits include:

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative healthcare environment.
• Chance to contribute to the development of specialized centers and programs.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

Others:

• Lead complex programs/projects and influence policy and decision-making within broad networks and partnerships at institution/cluster/national levels.
• Steer and facilitate leadership development in education, research, and innovation.
• Work with education, research, and innovation leads to align developments in these pillars with direction of future care needs.

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