Non-clinical Jobs for Physiotherapists

Of all the non-clinical jobs of a physiotherapist, education and sales jobs top the list. If the physiotherapists join the education, and sales and marketing sector they will surely earn a good fortune.

Physiotherapist

Physiotherapists are clinical professionals who help patients lead a normal life by alleviating pain and restoring the agility, and movement of certain body parts. People suffering from chronic pain, severe injury due to an operation, and illness, and age-related issues require the treatment and assistance of the physiotherapists. They use various exercise, massage, and electro-therapy as modes of their treatment. Their primary aim is to improve the patients’ quality of life.

The physiotherapists may work in hospitals, nursing homes, health centres, rehabilitation centres, sports academy, and other workplaces. They may also set up their own clinic and start practicing privately.

When does a physiotherapist want to change his profession?

Often it is seen that despite the best of efforts a physiotherapist has failed to establish himself in the stipulated career path, or after some years’ stint as a physiotherapist, he feels reluctant to carry on with his profession. Again, many women physiotherapists take leave from career due to some personal reasons and after a few years, it becomes difficult for them to return back to the old profession. But, these professional physiotherapists must not get disheartened. Multiple career opportunities are awaiting for them and they can easily explore these non-clinical jobs.

In this article, we have endeavoured to list down the availability and career prospects of clinical jobs for the physiotherapists.

• Education: Teaching is the foremost non-clinical career option to the physiotherapists. With BPT or MPT degree, they may easily join the physiotherapy institutes and teach the young aspirants. They may provide hands-on training to their students and help them learn everything about the course. They may also conduct online courses from home. In the physiotherapy colleges or institutes, they may look after the administrative jobs also.

This way, through teaching the physiotherapists can keep their knowledge of physiotherapy alive and earn a good amount of money.

• Sales Personnel: The physiotherapists always possess an ability to convince the patients about his mode of treatment and why it is necessary for the patients to carry on with the treatment. So they have an aptitude for sales and hence they can easily explore the sales jobs. They may also work as medical representatives or sales representative of medical equipment. The job of medical representative entails meeting the doctors, explaining about the new medicine and taking note of the sales of medicine in the medicine shops.

As the sales representative of medical equipment, they need to visit the hospitals and shops that sell medical instruments and facilitate business.

• Healthcare Recruiting: Healthcare Recruiting is another non-clinical career option for physiotherapists. Here, they are endowed with the task of finding suitable persons for healthcare jobs. With clinical knowledge, it would be easier for them to find out the right persons for allied healthcare jobs. They may also use their personal connections to recruit proficient personnel for healthcare jobs.
• Writing Blogs and Articles: This is yet another non-clinical career option for the physiotherapists. If the physiotherapist possesses a knack for writing, he may start writing blogs on health-related to topics. He may contribute articles in magazines, newspapers on relevant subjects which may benefit readers.
• Utilisation Review: Earlier, Utilisation Review was carried out by the nurses. But recently, physiotherapists are recruited for this job. Utilisation Reviewers or Clinical Reviewers work for the insurance companies. They conduct a study for the approval or denial of insurance to the patients for certain illness and medication. However, the job of Utilisation Review demands a few years of clinical practice in a hospital or private setting from the concerned person.
• Technology and Innovations: Physiotherapists may work as clinical trainers to help patients to become more mobile with the help of newly designed technologies.
• Rehab Liaison: As Rehab Liaison the physiotherapist’s job is to get patients admitted in the rehabilitation centre. Here, a physiotherapist may get a chance to work in a team or individually. Like a sales officer, he will convince the patient’s family about the facilities provided in the rehab. Since the physiotherapist has a valid licence, he can spend time with the patients though cannot treat them directly.
• Tele-health Physical Therapist: Tele-health Physical therapy is an alternative to Physical therapy. The physiotherapists can offer their treatment suggestion electronically instead of manually. This provides flexible job hours and freedom to the physiotherapists. It saves them from physical exhaustion. The physiotherapists can join Tele-health companies that offer therapies or may open their own Tele-health companies. Tele-health physical therapists introduce changes in the health care industry as well as in the patients’ life.
• Consultations: with their experience, the physiotherapists may work as consultants in health services. Here their job entails them to provide solutions to facilitate health care services.
• Entrepreneurship: Of late, many physiotherapists have begun the entrepreneurship ventures leaving their regular practice. This is no doubt a wonderful non-clinical career scope. They may become the owners of the clinic. With so many tele-health apps available in the market, they may go an extra mile to reach the benefits of tele-health services to the patients. They may even set up HEP companies and run tele-health platforms. Using the cutting edge technology in business will surely reap benefits for the physiotherapists. But it is to be remembered that to be successful in business the physiotherapist would require putting extra effort and working day and night. Initially, his income may be low, but with years he would earn fame and his earning would increase simultaneously.    

Salary Drawn by the Physiotherapists in non-clinical Jobs

Of all the non-clinical jobs of a physiotherapist, education and sales jobs top the list. If the physiotherapists join the education, and sales and marketing sector they will surely earn a good fortune. To be successful as sales personnel, they must have strong communication skill. As per the other career options, they have to work hard and gather experience. Their income will surely be low initially, but it will increase with time and experience. In any non-clinical job, the physiotherapists may draw a salary of Rs 15,000-20,000 per month in the beginning. But, as they accumulate experience, it will surely go up.