Sarah Connor

• Supervised students, assistants and new member's of staff
• Involved parents and carers in treatment, review and rehabilitation to support care continuum.
• Conducted clinical assessment and evaluation to determine patient needs and facilitate discharge goals and planning
• Managed acute and chronic conditions with full understanding regarding complex therapy needs.
• Educated patients and family members regarding diagnosis, injury prevention, and therapeutic treatments.

• Planned individually-designed treatment programs to restore, maintain and improve physical functioning, alleviate pain, and prevent injury.
• Exposure to different clientele including private, CTP and workover and the documentation requirements.
• The responsibility of being the only practitioner working in the clinic one day weekly. Including the responsibility of opening and closing the practice most days out with my daily clinical duties.
• Involvement in twice weekly in-service training, involving discussion of client cases and a variety of different courses to kep my professional development up to date.

During the height of the global pandemic (COVID-19), I was re-deployed from my current employer to work in a larger acute hospital, to help assist with the heighten demands of COVID-19. Following this, I applied for a permanent full-time job, with it being a larger teaching hospital, I had more opportunity to be exposed to different experiences.

ROTATIONS: Medical Including Oncology, Cardiology, GI, Renal. Respiratory involving working in ICU, HDU and Surgical wards.

• Completed my Clinical Educator training which allows me to oversee students during their clinical placements from university.
• Being the lead physiotherapist managing my own caseload and prioritising complex patients. Including I attending weekly multi-disciplinary meetings.

ROTATIONS: Medical/ Surgical, Respiratory, Community, Care of the Elderly, Stroke, Community and Musculoskeletal Outpatients.

• Developed my organisational and leadership skills through managing the CPD program for other newly qualified staff. Involving organising speakers and other professional organisations to provide training/teaching.
• Working for the on-call respiratory and orthopaedic services, where i often was the only physiotherapist covering the hospital.
• Planned individually-designed treatment programs to restore, maintain and improve physical functioning, alleviate pain, and prevent disability.
• Constructed physiotherapy treatment plans to increase functionality and strength to facilitate discharges and help with bed flow within the hospital.
• Educated patients and family members regarding diagnosis, injury prevention, and therapeutic treatments.