DIFFERENT AREAS WHERE A PHYSIOTHERAPIST CAN WORK IN THE UK
- You can work visiting patients in their own home.
- You can do self-employment and create your own private clinic. According to this, there a lot of opportunities with private physiotherapy. You can work in private clinics or hospitals, sports clinics, football clubs, special schools and also nursing homes.
- If you want to do voluntary work, an option is to work for charities such as the British Red Cross or St John Ambulance.
- If you love children, there’s the possibility of working at schools and children centres.
Finally, you can deal with services like responsibility for strategy, budgets and staff or into general health service management. Some physiotherapists, also decide teaching, training athletes or researching.
- To help people, the best option is to work at charities and voluntary organisations, particularly those serving people with disabilities.
- Related to health service, you can do GP practices and work at health or day centres for elderly people.
- Something not very common is to work in the armed services.
- If you love sport, apart from the private clinics or professional sports clubs, many gyms and leisure centres need a physiotherapist.
In the same way, you can work part time at a specific place and have another part-time job in another one. For example, during the day, working at a sport club and in the afternoon in a hospital.