Changes to physiotherapy supervision requirements 28 Jan 2025

28 Jan 2025

The Physiotherapy Board of Australia has updated supervised practice requirements to better support evaluation of supervised practice plans for physiotherapists.

Section G in the supervised practice plan will no longer be used for both general and limited registration for physiotherapy.

Instead, the Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (APP) instrument¹ will be used for the purpose of reporting of supervised practice goals and activities relating to standards, capabilities, competencies, thresholds or standards for practice.

This update will make reporting on supervised goals and activities clearer for physiotherapy supervisees and supervisors.

Supervised practice is an important part of protecting patient safety, helping ensure that registered health practitioners whose practice is being supervised are safe and competent to practise and are not putting the public at risk.

The APP instrument should be completed with supervised practice reports for supervision arrangements approved from 28 January 2025.

The Supervised practice framework page on the Board website has more information about this change.

¹Dalton M, Davidson M, Keating J (2011) The Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (APP) is a valid measure of professional competence of physiotherapy students: a cross-sectional study with Rasch analysis. Journal of Physiotherapy 57 (4), 239-246.