Occupation Atlasphysiotherapist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/006cc1f9-2841-41c3-991a-dc3f2f3bd533
physiotherapist
Physiotherapists are autonomous health professionals who are responsible for developing, maintaining or restoring motor function and movement throughout the lifespan using evidence-based practice. They relieve pain and treat or prevent physical conditions associated with injury, disease or other impairments. Physiotherapists empower patients and their carers to manage the condition outside clinical settings. They work within their scope of practice and their professional Code of Conduct.
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Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
SIRSocial · Investigative · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.91
- I Investigative4.87
- R Realistic4.33
- C Conventional3.07
- E Enterprising2.49
- A Artistic2.17
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Physical Therapists (29-1123.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (90)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to health well-being and safety
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adjust physiotherapy interventions
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advocate health
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assess physical conditions of clients
- biomechanics
- collect healthcare user's general data
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct health related research
- conduct physiotherapy assessment
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to quality physiotherapy services
- contribute to the rehabilitation process
- correct potentially harmful movements
- create solutions to problems
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop physiotherapy services
- develop plans related to client discharge
- develop plans related to the transfer of care
- develop strategic plans for physiotherapy services
- develop therapeutic relationships
- educate on the prevention of illness
- emergency surgery
- empathise with the healthcare user
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- engage in physiotherapy research
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a treatment plan
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- intensive care medicine
- interact with healthcare users
- interpret medical results
- kinetics
- listen actively
- maintain physiotherapy equipment
- manage a healthcare unit budget
- manage clinical risk
- manage healthcare staff
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage physiotherapy staff
- measure effectiveness of the service provided
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- neurology
- obstetrics and gynaecology
- orthopaedic manual physiotherapy
- orthopaedics
- paediatrics
- pharmacology
- physics
- prescribe healthcare products
- promote health and safety policies in health services
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide information on the effects of physiotherapy
- provide learning support in healthcare
- provide physiotherapy diagnosis
- provide self management support
- provide stroke rehabilitation services
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychiatry
- psychology
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- refer healthcare users
- rehabilitation
- respiratory therapy
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sociology
- supervise physiotherapist assistants
- supervise physiotherapy students
- surgery
- therapeutic massage
- triage clients for physiotherapy
- use different communication channels
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
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