Physiotherapist and Recruiter - Ligament NZ - New Zealand
(2021-07)
Physiotherapist and clinical support providing clinical support and training in the form of assisting in the development of physiotherapy clinical content for the online development training for onboarding international physiotherapists. Primarily responsible for the marking and pre-arrival training of all physiotherapy candidates on the developmental program. Recruiter responsible for recruitment of International Physiotherapists and Occupational therapists for immigration and job placements in New Zealand.
- Assess and provide relevant treatment to outpatients.
- Patient medicolegal documentation utilising Gensolve.
- Rescheduling patients and management of my diary.
- Maintaining productivity targets.
- Referring patients for further investigations: X Ray/US referrals as required.
- Referring patients for further management to other medical professionals as necessary.
- Effective and professional communication within my team and external multi-disciplinary team as necessary.
- Maintaining and improving knowledge and treatments by continued professional development.
- Monthly Zoom catch up meetings with the New Zealand placed physiotherapists to provide them with clinical support and pastoral care in looking after the wellbeing of overseas employee as per New Zealand immigration requirements.
- Managing the information inbox: responding to all initial queries from potential candidates.
- Communicating necessary information to candidates to inform them of the hiring steps and any questions they have with the businesses processes.
- Creating candidate profile folders, candidate document management and storage.
- Screening of the candidates resumes.
- Candidate screening to assess if the candidate is eligible for registering for work in New Zealand.
- Background checks and requesting and following up on candidate references.
- Conducting intensive 2-hour interviews and documentation of the interview.
- Hiring managing: post interview meeting and discussion with interview support to decide if the candidate is a good fit for the role.
- Creating, sending, following up and processing of contracts to successful candidates.
- Direct feedback and summaries of all interviews to the company's director.
- Weekly attendance of management meetings: discuss business objectives, future planning, addressing and refining business processes.
- Liaise with other members of the team with regards to candidate handovers and management.
- Business research: researching multiple medical professional registration processes for New Zealand, The United Kingdom and Australia. Utilizing this research to expand the current business model and create new business processes and planning.
Owner - Sun Valley Physiotherapy
(2019-11 - 2021-06)
- Practice management: billing medical aids, following up on claim, basic business accounting, budget planning.
- Marketing: building an online business presence, social media business management, creation of advertising, managing and coordination of digital management activities.
- All patient and business administration: patient documentation, storage and management of medical notes, scheduling appointments, managing bookings, managing working schedule.
- Assessing and treating out-patients.
Head of the Physiotherapy Department - Institute for Maritime Medicine (Department of Defense) - South Africa
(2012-01 - 2019-10)
- Providing Physiotherapy interventions to members of the South African National Defense Force and dependents.
- Assessment and treatment of outpatients in particular NMS/sport related and orthopedic related injuries on a daily basis.
- Developing and reviewing treatment programmed.
- Providing patient rehabilitation to ensure that all patients are fit for deployment.
- Maintenance and acquisition of physiotherapy equipment and consumables.
- Comprehensive administrative duties to ensure efficient and effective service delivery.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Managing human resources.
- Annual Budget planning.
Clinical Educator and Clinical Supervisor for Undergraduate Physiotherapy Students - University of the Western Cape - South Africa
(2016-01 - 2016-10)
- Conducting weekly tutorial sessions for 3rd year students who were struggling with clinical practice.
- Teaching assessment and treatments of patients in a clinical environment biopsychosocially including teaching of practical skills, theoretical knowledge, interpersonal development and ethically sound practices.
- Facilitating the development of working in a multidisciplinary team.
- Preparation of material to be taught prior to lessons.
- Facilitator of a series of case studies questions and answer session.
- Supervision of physiotherapy students at a general hospital including an outpatient's department block.
- Reviewing students' clinical files, journal articles, patient assessments and reflections.
- Examining end of block exams and completing clinical conduct forms.
