Employer-funded physiotherapy at home

An employee may need help with muscle, joint or movement difficulties after injury, illness or surgery, while attending a clinic is temporarily difficult. A home assessment can consider relevant daily movements in the actual surroundings where the person is recovering. It is not automatically the right setting for every work-related condition.

The clinical need, medical or surgical advice, employee preferences and practical access requirements guide the service discussion. Explain the broad rehabilitation requested and whether a home-only or combined home-and-clinic arrangement is being considered. Appropriate clinician expertise and available capacity are checked before a proposal is accepted.

Where agreed, physiotherapy can address movement or functional difficulties relevant to the person's usual activities and job demands. Assessment findings inform the individual plan; treatment is not selected solely from a job title or the fact that an employer is paying.

A treating-physio update may explain relevant physical findings, progress, barriers and recommendations within the agreed scope. It does not guarantee a return-to-work date or replace the employer's decisions and any wider medical or occupational-health advice. Confirm the questions and intended recipients before commissioning a functional report.

• Identify broad physical job demands and the rehabilitation questions you need addressed.
• Distinguish treatment from a separately commissioned assessment or detailed report.
• Discuss how recommendations will be reviewed as symptoms, function or work circumstances change.

Employer funding does not remove the employee's role in agreeing to assessment, treatment and appropriate disclosure. The referral process should establish the intended service, report questions and recipients, alongside the relevant consent and information-sharing arrangements.

Use the public enquiry for organisational contact details and broad service requirements. Once scope and terms are discussed, we explain how necessary employee information and documents should be supplied. We do not invite identifiable employee health information into a public marketing enquiry or imply that every clinical detail will be shared with a manager.

This page concerns individually agreed physiotherapy rehabilitation at a visit address. It does not automatically include a home-workstation/DSE assessment, occupational therapy, home adaptations, an occupational-health medical examination or a complete workplace programme.

If you need workstation support, a workplace visit or an on-site programme, describe that separately so the appropriate service and competence can be checked. A home rehabilitation appointment must not be used to assume that those additional assessments or reports have been commissioned.

We review the actual treatment address rather than assuming the employee's correspondence address is the visit location. Travel, access, assistance requirements and clinician capacity are considered for the proposed arrangement; a named borough or an online service page does not guarantee acceptance.