Personal Statement
An HPC registered physiotherapist with more than five years experience. My qualifications include a
BSc in Physiotherapy (ATEI, Athens, Greece), an MSc in Pain (King's College, London), and basic
computer knowledge (IC3 Certificate by microsoft). I am aslo in the second year of studies for an
MPhil/PhD in Pain Management. I am an enthusiastic and hard working physiotherapist willing to work
any shifts and during holidays. Ideally I wish to find employment in London.
Work Experience
17 Sep 2003 – Date
(Last visit 01 – 17 October 2006)
01 Jun 2000 – 15 Aug 2002
Home visits
Patients’ homes, Athens, Greece
– Senior physiotherapist, self
employed
Professional duties included:
- Working with patients in a comfortable and
convenient to them environment, their home
- Designing and applying rehabilitation strategies
and treatments for patients with a variety of neurological, orthopaedic, and rheumatologic
conditions, such as stroke patients, car accident victims, patients suffering because of chronic
pain syndromes, patients with rheumatoid arthritis, etc.
- Assess/evaluate patients/>
- Decide which patients are in need of home treatment and advice them suitably
- Contact
treating doctor to obtain medical record (after patient’s permission), to get advice, to inform
him/her of my presence
- Report to treating doctor any matter of concern I may have
noticed
- Contact colleagues and other health professionals when in need of advice and
input
- Offer advice and input to other colleagues
- Collaborate with another
physiotherapist, when the presence of more than one physiotherapist is deemed necessary/>
- Handling, moving, lifting, and carrying heavy equipment or patients in an “unfriendly” to
the physiotherapist environment, the patient’s home
- Have another physiotherapist as an
independent link to report patient’s progress and my whereabouts.
- Reflect on and assess
success of treatment on a regular basis, amend and improve it
- Assess and evaluate family
environment and/or home setting, so as to adapt rehabilitation strategy accordingly
- Advice
patients and their families on additional or other form of therapies they are in need of, for
example speech or occupational therapy
- Help patients acquire more confidence and pace them
back to independence
- Work as a team with the patient and their family, in order to design
the best for them treatment strategy and to set goals
- Longitudinal follow up of patients
after end of course of treatments
01 April – 01 May 2006 Research on
Children and Young Adults with and without motor impairment
At different schools in Leeds,
UK
– Senior research physiotherapist, part time, research assistant
Professional
duties included:
- Assessment and Re-Evaluation by a series of Tests (Movement ABC, Hand
Writing)
- Participation in educational meetings about Test administration, and methods of
approaching, assessing/re-evaluating children and young adults.
- Evaluating Tests and
suggesting improvements for research methodology
01 Oct 2005 – 01 June 2006
Leeds Metropolitan University
Faculty of Health, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic
Quarter, Leeds LS1 3HE , UK
– Lecturer, part time, placed at Faculty of Health/>
Professional duties included:
- Giving a series of lectures on Pain Management/>
- Teaching practicals on Pain Physiology and Respiratory Evaluation and Assessment (peak flow
meter & vitalograph)
- Meetings with manager about lectures’ and practicals’
progress
1 Oct 2003– 1 Aug 2004 IASIS- Centre of Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation,
and Athletic Injuries (private patient practice)
Ifikratous 33, Pagkrati, P.C. 116 33,
Athens, Greece
– Senior physiotherapist, full time, orthopaedic and general outpatient
position
Professional duties included:
- Treatment of athletic injuries mainly
of professional volleyball, basketball, and football players (male and female)/>
- Rehabilitation of neuropathologic disorders, such as patients after strokes
- Treatment
of a variety of orthopaedic conditions and chronic pain syndromes
- Being the senior
physiotherapist and manager of the practice during the morning shift
- Designing alone or
with colleagues/principal therapeutic strategies, setting goals, assessing patients’ condition and
progress.
- Planning and setting goals with patients as part pf cognitive based treatments.
15 Jan 2003 – 01 Aug 2003 King’s College London
Shepherd’s House,
Guy’s Campus, London SE1 1UL, UK
– Research assistant, part time, voluntary post as part
of training in the Physiotherapy Division of GKT School of Biomedical Sciences
/>
Professional duties included:
- Data collection
- Partaking in the treatment
components of the study under supervisions, as I was not an HPC member at the time/>
- Assessing and evaluating patients with acute ankle sprains as suitable, or not, to participate
in the study
03 Dec 2001 – 03 June 2002 401 General Army Hospital of Athens/>
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Leoforos Mesogeion 138 and Katehaki, P.C.
115 25, Athens, Greece
– Voluntary position for physiotherapist as part of training program
(practice post), full time, rotational
Professional duties included work in:/>
- Outpatient’s Department
- Department of Iso-kinesis and Athletic Injuries/>
- Intensive Care Unit
- Neurology Clinic
- Cardiology Clinic
- Orthopaedic
Clinic
- Pulmonary Clinic
- Plastic Surgery Clinic
In all placements, my duties
involved:
- Daily update ward and clinic visits both as a member of a multidisciplinary
health team and alone
- Evaluating and assessing patients both alone and as a member of the
medical team
- Reporting to manager and head of department patients’ progress and record
it
- Following treatment and rehabilitation protocols and designing personalised treatments
where necessary
- Treating and rehabilitating patients of a vast spectrum of conditions and
age groups alone or as a member of a physiotherapy team
- Setting rehabilitation goals and
progress expectations of patients after car accidents with extremely complex issues
- Working
in the intensive care unit during the outbreak of a SARS epidemic in 2002
- Recognising and
reporting potential mistakes or omissions in the diagnosis and assessment of patients with extremely
complex conditions
- Partaking in goal setting and reflective staff meetings, Attending
hospital seminars, in-service education, performance appraisal, and professional development/>
- Working closely with patients and their relatives as a team to determine desired future
progress and strategies to achieve it
- Working with certain patients in a variety of
settings through the day (i.e. ward, physiotherapy unit, gymnasium)
- Recognising and
assessing relationship of patients of vulnerable sentimental and psychological state with other
colleagues, so as the most suitable physiotherapist would treat them on occasions that the patient
was not responding to rehabilitation sessions
- Getting advice and input about patients with
complex issues from manager and other medical staff
- Supervising students during their
clinical placement
07 Dec 1999 – 06 Apr 2000 Home visits, private therapies
K.A.T. Hospital Athens
Patients’ homes, Athens, Greece
or at wards of K.A.T.
hospital, Nikis 2, Kifissia, P.C. 145 61, Athens, Greece
– Junior physiotherapist,
self employed but under supervision of hospital mentor and chief of clinic
Professional
duties included:
- Working with inpatients and outpatients
- Designing and applying
rehabilitation strategies for patients with a variety of neurological, orthopaedic, and
rheumatologic conditions, such as stroke patients, car accident victims, patients after joint
replacement surgeries, patients with rheumatoid arthritis, etc.
- Deciding which of the
patients who would seek extra private therapies were actually of any need for them and advice them
and their family appropriately
- Inform manager and chief of clinic
- Record and
report progress of patients to my mentor, reflect with mentor on it and decide on future course of
action
- Assess and evaluate family environment and/or home setting, so as to adapt
rehabilitation strategy accordingly
- Advice patients and their families on additional or
other form of therapies they were in need of, for example speech or occupational therapy/>
- Report to their treating physician their progress and/or any matter of concern I was aware
of
- Help patients acquire more confidence and pace them back to independence
/>
06 Oct 1999 – 06 Apr 2000 K.A.T. Hospital Athens
Nikis 2, Kifissia, P.C. 145
61, Athens, Greece
– Junior physiotherapist (practical placement- in Greece posts for
qualifying as a physiotherapist are occupied after the successful attendance of all
courses/practicals/clinical placements but before graduation, so as for graduates to be able to work
immediately as independent physiotherapists) , full time, rotational position
/>
Professional duties included work in:
- Orthopaedic & Rheumatology Clinics (2
months)
- Athletic Injuries & Neurology Clinics (1 month)
- Outpatients Department
(1 month)
- Neurosurgery Clinic & Intensive Care Unit (1 month)
- Physical
Rehabilitation Clinic (1 month)
In all placements, my duties involved:
- Assessment
and Evaluation of patients
- Treatment and Rehabilitation of patients
- Recording and
reporting to manager and medical team patients’ progress
- Partaking in goal setting and
reflective staff meetings, also in the medical/rehabilitation’s team daily ward update visits/>
- Attending hospital seminars, in-service education, performance appraisal, and professional
development
- Working closely with patients and their relatives as a team to determine
desired future progress and strategies to achieve it
- Dealing with patients with complicated
issues and conditions
- Supervising students during their clinical placement
/>
Currently registered with PULSE agency (Physiotherapy locum department)
/>
Physiotherapy Student Experience
1999 K.A.T. Hospital Athens (2 months) –
Orthopaedic Clinic and Outpatients Department
K.A.T. Hospital Athens (2 weeks) –
Rheumatology Clinic
“Sismanoglio” National Pulmonary Complaints Hospital Athens
(2 weeks) – Cardiorespiratory and ICU inpatients
1998 “E.I.A.A.” National Institution
for the Rehabilitation Handicapped Athens (5 weeks) – Inpatients
“P.I.K.P.A.”
Children’s Hospital Pentelis (4 weeks) – Paediatrics, Neurology, Rehabilitation, ICU
inpatients
Industry Sectors
In Greece: Primary care, Secondary Care, Hospitals, Community, and Private Practice
/>
In UK: University and Research
Notable Achievements
I have extensive experience with car accident victims on Primary and Secondary Care level.
I
was working in intensive care (rotational post) during the SARS outbreak (2002) in Athens, Greece
(401 General Army Hospital of Athens).
I have extensive and specialised knowledge/skills in
Pain management, both through studies and experience.
Qualifications
2004 – Date MPhil/PhD Student
Leeds Metropolitan University UK
/>
2002 – 2003 Master of Science in Pain
King’s College University of London
UK
1995 – 2000/>
Additional Semester:
2000 - 2001 Bachelor of Science Physiotherapy
(Grade: 69.4/100)
Higher Technological Educational
Institute of Athens
Greece (ATEI).
11
Oct 2006 Computing: IC3 Certificate
Current Job Title
Physiotherapist
Approximate Current Salary
undisclosed
Special Titles
Aspirations
I would prefer to work as a pain specialist or a rotational physiotherapist. Ideally I would have
research opportunities in my post.
Income Sought
undisclosed
Work Preferences
Preferred Country of Work
UK
Other Work Location Preferences
London
Hobbies & Interests
I like sports and the outdoors, but my main interest is in the arts. I try and spent as much time in
galleries, museums, thaetre, concerts, cinema, reading. I can isoltae a specific form of art I
favour, since I am equally passionnaite with all.
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An HPC registered physiotherapist with more than five years experience. My qualifications include a
BSc in Physiotherapy (ATEI, Athens, Greece), an MSc in Pain (King's College, London), and basic
computer knowledge (IC3 Certificate by microsoft). I am aslo in the second year of studies for an
MPhil/PhD in Pain Management. I am an enthusiastic and hard working physiotherapist willing to work
any shifts and during holidays. Ideally I wish to find employment in London.
Work Experience
17 Sep 2003 – Date
(Last visit 01 – 17 October 2006)
01 Jun 2000 – 15 Aug 2002
Home visits
Patients’ homes, Athens, Greece
– Senior physiotherapist, self
employed
Professional duties included:
- Working with patients in a comfortable and
convenient to them environment, their home
- Designing and applying rehabilitation strategies
and treatments for patients with a variety of neurological, orthopaedic, and rheumatologic
conditions, such as stroke patients, car accident victims, patients suffering because of chronic
pain syndromes, patients with rheumatoid arthritis, etc.
- Assess/evaluate patients
- Contact
treating doctor to obtain medical record (after patient’s permission), to get advice, to inform
him/her of my presence
- Report to treating doctor any matter of concern I may have
noticed
- Contact colleagues and other health professionals when in need of advice and
input
- Offer advice and input to other colleagues
- Collaborate with another
physiotherapist, when the presence of more than one physiotherapist is deemed necessary
the physiotherapist environment, the patient’s home
- Have another physiotherapist as an
independent link to report patient’s progress and my whereabouts.
- Reflect on and assess
success of treatment on a regular basis, amend and improve it
- Assess and evaluate family
environment and/or home setting, so as to adapt rehabilitation strategy accordingly
- Advice
patients and their families on additional or other form of therapies they are in need of, for
example speech or occupational therapy
- Help patients acquire more confidence and pace them
back to independence
- Work as a team with the patient and their family, in order to design
the best for them treatment strategy and to set goals
- Longitudinal follow up of patients
after end of course of treatments
01 April – 01 May 2006 Research on
Children and Young Adults with and without motor impairment
At different schools in Leeds,
UK
– Senior research physiotherapist, part time, research assistant
Professional
duties included:
- Assessment and Re-Evaluation by a series of Tests (Movement ABC, Hand
Writing)
- Participation in educational meetings about Test administration, and methods of
approaching, assessing/re-evaluating children and young adults.
- Evaluating Tests and
suggesting improvements for research methodology
01 Oct 2005 – 01 June 2006
Leeds Metropolitan University
Faculty of Health, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic
Quarter, Leeds LS1 3HE , UK
– Lecturer, part time, placed at Faculty of Health
- Giving a series of lectures on Pain Management
meter & vitalograph)
- Meetings with manager about lectures’ and practicals’
progress
1 Oct 2003– 1 Aug 2004 IASIS- Centre of Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation,
and Athletic Injuries (private patient practice)
Ifikratous 33, Pagkrati, P.C. 116 33,
Athens, Greece
– Senior physiotherapist, full time, orthopaedic and general outpatient
position
Professional duties included:
- Treatment of athletic injuries mainly
of professional volleyball, basketball, and football players (male and female)
- Treatment
of a variety of orthopaedic conditions and chronic pain syndromes
- Being the senior
physiotherapist and manager of the practice during the morning shift
- Designing alone or
with colleagues/principal therapeutic strategies, setting goals, assessing patients’ condition and
progress.
- Planning and setting goals with patients as part pf cognitive based treatments.
15 Jan 2003 – 01 Aug 2003 King’s College London
Shepherd’s House,
Guy’s Campus, London SE1 1UL, UK
– Research assistant, part time, voluntary post as part
of training in the Physiotherapy Division of GKT School of Biomedical Sciences
- Data collection
- Partaking in the treatment
components of the study under supervisions, as I was not an HPC member at the time
in the study
03 Dec 2001 – 03 June 2002 401 General Army Hospital of Athens
115 25, Athens, Greece
– Voluntary position for physiotherapist as part of training program
(practice post), full time, rotational
Professional duties included work in:
- Department of Iso-kinesis and Athletic Injuries
- Neurology Clinic
- Cardiology Clinic
- Orthopaedic
Clinic
- Pulmonary Clinic
- Plastic Surgery Clinic
In all placements, my duties
involved:
- Daily update ward and clinic visits both as a member of a multidisciplinary
health team and alone
- Evaluating and assessing patients both alone and as a member of the
medical team
- Reporting to manager and head of department patients’ progress and record
it
- Following treatment and rehabilitation protocols and designing personalised treatments
where necessary
- Treating and rehabilitating patients of a vast spectrum of conditions and
age groups alone or as a member of a physiotherapy team
- Setting rehabilitation goals and
progress expectations of patients after car accidents with extremely complex issues
- Working
in the intensive care unit during the outbreak of a SARS epidemic in 2002
- Recognising and
reporting potential mistakes or omissions in the diagnosis and assessment of patients with extremely
complex conditions
- Partaking in goal setting and reflective staff meetings, Attending
hospital seminars, in-service education, performance appraisal, and professional development
progress and strategies to achieve it
- Working with certain patients in a variety of
settings through the day (i.e. ward, physiotherapy unit, gymnasium)
- Recognising and
assessing relationship of patients of vulnerable sentimental and psychological state with other
colleagues, so as the most suitable physiotherapist would treat them on occasions that the patient
was not responding to rehabilitation sessions
- Getting advice and input about patients with
complex issues from manager and other medical staff
- Supervising students during their
clinical placement
07 Dec 1999 – 06 Apr 2000 Home visits, private therapies
K.A.T. Hospital Athens
Patients’ homes, Athens, Greece
or at wards of K.A.T.
hospital, Nikis 2, Kifissia, P.C. 145 61, Athens, Greece
– Junior physiotherapist,
self employed but under supervision of hospital mentor and chief of clinic
Professional
duties included:
- Working with inpatients and outpatients
- Designing and applying
rehabilitation strategies for patients with a variety of neurological, orthopaedic, and
rheumatologic conditions, such as stroke patients, car accident victims, patients after joint
replacement surgeries, patients with rheumatoid arthritis, etc.
- Deciding which of the
patients who would seek extra private therapies were actually of any need for them and advice them
and their family appropriately
- Inform manager and chief of clinic
- Record and
report progress of patients to my mentor, reflect with mentor on it and decide on future course of
action
- Assess and evaluate family environment and/or home setting, so as to adapt
rehabilitation strategy accordingly
- Advice patients and their families on additional or
other form of therapies they were in need of, for example speech or occupational therapy
of
- Help patients acquire more confidence and pace them back to independence
06 Oct 1999 – 06 Apr 2000 K.A.T. Hospital Athens
Nikis 2, Kifissia, P.C. 145
61, Athens, Greece
– Junior physiotherapist (practical placement- in Greece posts for
qualifying as a physiotherapist are occupied after the successful attendance of all
courses/practicals/clinical placements but before graduation, so as for graduates to be able to work
immediately as independent physiotherapists) , full time, rotational position
- Orthopaedic & Rheumatology Clinics (2
months)
- Athletic Injuries & Neurology Clinics (1 month)
- Outpatients Department
(1 month)
- Neurosurgery Clinic & Intensive Care Unit (1 month)
- Physical
Rehabilitation Clinic (1 month)
In all placements, my duties involved:
- Assessment
and Evaluation of patients
- Treatment and Rehabilitation of patients
- Recording and
reporting to manager and medical team patients’ progress
- Partaking in goal setting and
reflective staff meetings, also in the medical/rehabilitation’s team daily ward update visits
development
- Working closely with patients and their relatives as a team to determine
desired future progress and strategies to achieve it
- Dealing with patients with complicated
issues and conditions
- Supervising students during their clinical placement
1999 K.A.T. Hospital Athens (2 months) –
Orthopaedic Clinic and Outpatients Department
K.A.T. Hospital Athens (2 weeks) –
Rheumatology Clinic
“Sismanoglio” National Pulmonary Complaints Hospital Athens
(2 weeks) – Cardiorespiratory and ICU inpatients
1998 “E.I.A.A.” National Institution
for the Rehabilitation Handicapped Athens (5 weeks) – Inpatients
“P.I.K.P.A.”
Children’s Hospital Pentelis (4 weeks) – Paediatrics, Neurology, Rehabilitation, ICU
inpatients
Industry Sectors
In Greece: Primary care, Secondary Care, Hospitals, Community, and Private Practice
Notable Achievements
I have extensive experience with car accident victims on Primary and Secondary Care level.
I
was working in intensive care (rotational post) during the SARS outbreak (2002) in Athens, Greece
(401 General Army Hospital of Athens).
I have extensive and specialised knowledge/skills in
Pain management, both through studies and experience.
Qualifications
2004 – Date MPhil/PhD Student
Leeds Metropolitan University UK
King’s College University of London
UK
1995 – 2000
2000 - 2001 Bachelor of Science Physiotherapy
(Grade: 69.4/100)
Higher Technological Educational
Institute of Athens
Greece (ATEI).
11
Oct 2006 Computing: IC3 Certificate
Current Job Title
Physiotherapist
Approximate Current Salary
undisclosed
Special Titles
Aspirations
I would prefer to work as a pain specialist or a rotational physiotherapist. Ideally I would have
research opportunities in my post.
Income Sought
undisclosed
Work Preferences
Preferred Country of Work
UK
Other Work Location Preferences
London
Hobbies & Interests
I like sports and the outdoors, but my main interest is in the arts. I try and spent as much time in
galleries, museums, thaetre, concerts, cinema, reading. I can isoltae a specific form of art I
favour, since I am equally passionnaite with all.
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