Role Purpose

The Home-Based Physiotherapist will assess, plan, and deliver safe physiotherapy services for patients in their homes in Basra. The role focuses on practical rehabilitation that helps patients improve mobility, reduce pain, regain strength, prevent complications, and perform daily activities more safely. The physiotherapist must work respectfully with patients and families, adapt treatment to the home environment, and maintain clear records after each visit.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct initial home-based physiotherapy assessments, including mobility, strength, balance, pain, posture, range of motion, functional ability, fall risk, and home safety needs.
• Develop individualized rehabilitation plans with clear goals, session frequency, home exercises, expected progress milestones, and family instructions.
• Provide physiotherapy sessions in patient homes, including therapeutic exercise, mobility training, balance training, gait training, transfer training, stretching, strengthening, and basic pain-management interventions.
• Support patients recovering from stroke, surgery, fractures, injury, disability, chronic pain, weakness, elderly frailty, and reduced mobility.
• Teach patients and family members safe positioning, transfers from bed to chair, walking support, use of assistive devices, and daily home exercise routines.
• Assess the home environment and recommend simple safety improvements, such as removing fall hazards, adjusting furniture, improving bathroom safety, or using suitable mobility aids.
• Monitor progress and modify the treatment plan according to patient response, safety risks, pain level, and functional improvement.
• Coordinate with doctors, nurses, caregivers, family members, and the operations team when the patient needs additional medical or care support.
• Identify red flags such as sudden weakness, chest pain, severe shortness of breath, signs of infection, uncontrolled blood pressure, new neurological symptoms, or unsafe home conditions, and escalate appropriately.
• Maintain patient dignity, privacy, confidentiality, and culturally appropriate communication during all home visits.

Home Visit Duties and Conduct

• Arrive on time for scheduled home visits and inform the dispatcher/manager of any delay or change in schedule.
• Carry required equipment, treatment materials, identification, and personal protective items for each visit.
• Introduce yourself clearly to the patient and family, explain the session plan, and obtain patient cooperation before treatment.
• Respect the family home, including privacy, household rules, cultural norms, and gender-sensitive considerations.
• Keep the treatment area clean and safe before, during, and after the session.
• Do not provide services outside the agreed treatment scope without approval from the supervisor or company.
• Report any safeguarding concern, abuse concern, neglect concern, unsafe environment, or serious family complaint immediately to the responsible manager.

Clinical Scope

• Elderly mobility and fall-prevention support.
• Post-surgery and post-hospital discharge rehabilitation.
• Stroke and neurological rehabilitation within the physiotherapist’s level of competence.
• Musculoskeletal pain and mobility limitations.
• Disability support and functional independence training.
• Bed mobility, transfer training, walking practice, and basic assistive-device training.
• Family education for safe home-based rehabilitation and daily exercise continuation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or diploma in Physiotherapy, Physical Therapy, or a closely related rehabilitation field.
• Valid professional authorization to practice in Iraq, where required by law or employer policy.
• Minimum 1-2 years of practical physiotherapy experience is preferred; strong fresh graduates may be considered if clinically supervised.
• Experience in home care, elderly care, stroke recovery, post-surgery rehabilitation, disability support, or community-based rehabilitation is an advantage.
• Good knowledge of therapeutic exercise, mobility training, pain management, rehabilitation planning, patient safety, and home exercise programs.
• Ability to work independently during home visits while knowing when to escalate clinical concerns.
• Good Arabic communication skills. English is an advantage. Kurdish is an additional advantage depending on patient needs.
• Ability and willingness to travel within Basra for patient home visits.

Required Skills and Personal Qualities

• Respectful and patient communication with elderly people, patients with disability, and family caregivers.
• Strong observation skills and practical judgment in different home environments.
• Ability to explain exercises clearly and simply to patients and families.
• Professional behavior, punctuality, confidentiality, and reliability.
• Ability to document sessions accurately and submit reports on time.
• Calm handling of difficult family situations, pain complaints, or slow patient progress.
• Commitment to safe practice, hygiene, and patient dignity.

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