PHYSIOTHERAPIST
Roles and Responsibilities
Physiotherapists help people affected by injury, illness or
disability through movement and exercise, manual therapy,
education and advice. You maintain health for people of all
ages, helping patients to manage pain and prevent disease.
Being a physiotherapist, you have to work with patients who
have a range of conditions, including neurological,
cardiovascular and respiratory, sometime over a period of
weeks. You will be diagnosing, assessing and treating a
patient’s physical problem/condition. You will be expected to
write patient case notes and reports and collect statistics.
You have to involve parents and carers in the treatment, review and
rehabilitation of patients whilst educating patients and their carers about
how to prevent and/or improve conditions. You will be expected to keep up
to date with new techniques and technologies available for treating
patients.
You will also need to be able to do –
Supervise Students and Junior Therapists
Be Legally Responsible and Accountable
Be Caring, Compassionate and Professional at All Times
Manage Clinical Risk.
Qualifications
You must be registered with the health and care professions council, to register with
HCPC, you first need to successfully complete an approved degree (BSc) in
physiotherapy. Courses are available across the UK, full time degree being three years
and pat time degrees varying from four to six years.
There are also a two-year acceleration courses available to people who already have a BSc
degree in a relevant subject.
You will need to show that you understand physiotherapy and an aptitude
for caring for others.
To get onto a physiotherapy degree course you usually need two or three A levels,
including a biological science and/or PE. Along side that, you will also need five GCSEs
(grades A – C), including English Language, Maths and at least one science.
You may also get onto the course with these alternative qualifications, including –
BTEC, HND Or HNC Which Includes Biological Science
Relevant NVQ
Science-Based Across Course
Equivalent Scottish Or Irish Qualifications
A Pervious Degree or A Full Practising Qualification in A Related Area
Once you have successfully completed a programme approved by the HCPC, you are then
eligible to apply for registration with the HCPC. Once registered as a practitioner, you
will be required to retain your name on the register by keeping your knowledge and skills
up to date whilst paying an annual retention fee.
Roles and Responsibilities
Physiotherapists help people affected by injury, illness or
disability through movement and exercise, manual therapy,
education and advice. You maintain health for people of all
ages, helping patients to manage pain and prevent disease.
Being a physiotherapist, you have to work with patients who
have a range of conditions, including neurological,
cardiovascular and respiratory, sometime over a period of
weeks. You will be diagnosing, assessing and treating a
patient’s physical problem/condition. You will be expected to
write patient case notes and reports and collect statistics.
You have to involve parents and carers in the treatment, review and
rehabilitation of patients whilst educating patients and their carers about
how to prevent and/or improve conditions. You will be expected to keep up
to date with new techniques and technologies available for treating
patients.
You will also need to be able to do –
Supervise Students and Junior Therapists
Be Legally Responsible and Accountable
Be Caring, Compassionate and Professional at All Times
Manage Clinical Risk.
Qualifications
You must be registered with the health and care professions council, to register with
HCPC, you first need to successfully complete an approved degree (BSc) in
physiotherapy. Courses are available across the UK, full time degree being three years
and pat time degrees varying from four to six years.
There are also a two-year acceleration courses available to people who already have a BSc
degree in a relevant subject.
You will need to show that you understand physiotherapy and an aptitude
for caring for others.
To get onto a physiotherapy degree course you usually need two or three A levels,
including a biological science and/or PE. Along side that, you will also need five GCSEs
(grades A – C), including English Language, Maths and at least one science.
You may also get onto the course with these alternative qualifications, including –
BTEC, HND Or HNC Which Includes Biological Science
Relevant NVQ
Science-Based Across Course
Equivalent Scottish Or Irish Qualifications
A Pervious Degree or A Full Practising Qualification in A Related Area
Once you have successfully completed a programme approved by the HCPC, you are then
eligible to apply for registration with the HCPC. Once registered as a practitioner, you
will be required to retain your name on the register by keeping your knowledge and skills
up to date whilst paying an annual retention fee.
