Episode 50 - The Ins and Outs of Supervising Physiotherapist Support Workers The CPTA's College Conversations

Speakers:  Leanne Loranger and Sean FitzGerald
Physiotherapist support workers are an essential element to a functioning health system. In this episode, Leanne and Sean discuss the range of backgrounds, educations and experiences people working as physiotherapist support workers may possess and the implications of physiotherapist support workers being unregulated health providers.
They review the performance expectations that physiotherapists must adhere to when supervising physiotherapist support workers and the importance of understanding the skills and knowledge of the physiotherapist support workers you work with.
Toward the end of the episode, they discuss the College’s perspective on the importance of establishing when a supervision relationship exists between a physiotherapist and an unregulated health provider and touch on the different methods of supervision physiotherapists can employ when supervising physiotherapist support workers.
Resources:
·       Supervision Standard of Practice
·       Supervision Guide for Alberta Physiotherapists
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