“We are suddenly too short of hands in the team today. How will we manage this rush of clients?”, asks your physiotherapy team member.
In a tight running team schedule, such days are inevitable, but do happen. The larger the team, the greater the frequency of such situations happening.
Beyond a certain number of clients to be served on any concerned day, home physiotherapy schedules are more challenging to be managed, than at clinic.
An efficient physiotherapy team operations always has well-tiered strategies to deal with such situations. The team needs to be constantly practicing the same, theoretically to the level that each physiotherapist arrives at work with the confidence that, “I might be the only one showing up at work today, but no worries, I’ll handle it all, efficiently.”
So, how is such a process built up, or how to strategize available man hour emergencies? Above all, how is this day-to-day leadership attribute instilled in each and every physiotherapy team member?
This varies from unit to unit, depending upon the kind of physiotherapy services being offered, number of team members, number of ongoing and expected new clients, frequency of appointments for any client in a given month, data of weekly, compensatory and planned offs by the team members, etc.
The key headers in such strategies would comprise of how to prioritize team roster, how to identify and defer ongoing appointments, can yet-to-be-made appointments be deferred for a day or two, centralizing appointments from differen sources into one common system, etc.
If your team is not having a documented strategy and is not being regularly refreshed on it, then you are very likely going to be overburdened as a leader, who might just be evolving a trust issue with his or her team members for this underlying, but unrealized reason and above all, your team’s client retention prospects and service renewals might be getting affected, majorly due to this one reason.
To design an efficient high workload less manpower operational strategy for your physiotherapy team, book a non-clinical consultation with Ravi Shankar, who is a licensed Physiotherapist in Delhi and is the founder of Physical Rehab Events, today.
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