1. - European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations
October
2013
Working Group
EU Directives:
ESCO
- European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations
Gent, September 2015
March
2014
September
2014
March
2015
February
2015
September
2015

3. such as NACE, ISCO and EQF
ESCO has been linked to relevant international classifications and frameworks
such as NACE, ISCO and EQF

5. ESCO occupation taxonomy (final)

6. Description of Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is the health profession with expertise in movement and exercise prescription throughout the lifespan across the health spectrum. Physiotherapy involves specific interventions to individuals and populations where movement and function are, or may be, threatened by illness, ageing, injury, pain, disability, disease, disorder or environmental factors. Such interventions are designed and prescribed to develop, restore and maintain optimal health.
Physiotherapy is integral to all spheres of health and well-being such as promotion, prevention, habilitation and rehabilitation and encompasses physical, psychological, emotional and social factors.  Physiotherapy involves the interaction of the physiotherapist with the client including his/her family, care givers and relevant other health professionals and communities
Physiotherapy is a science-based health discipline.
This is the description WCPT Europe has offered for ESCO and which
ENPHE’s ESCO Working Group has been able to comment.

7. The already agreed classification for Physiotherapy
- Physiotherapist Assistant
- Physiotherapist
- Advanced Physiotherapist

8. Physiotherapist Assistant
Physiotherapist Assistants support and work under the sole direction and/or supervision of Physiotherapists or Advanced Physiotherapists. Physiotherapists and Advanced Physiotherapists direct and delegate specific aspects of treatment and patient management to the Physiotherapist Assistant. 
Physiotherapist Assistants work within defined contexts using agreed treatment protocols and procedures. Physiotherapist Assistants are accountable for their actions; however Physiotherapists / Advanced Physiotherapists retain overall responsibility for clients.

9. Physiotherapist
Physiotherapists are autonomous health care professionals who assess, diagnose, plan, treat and evaluate clients and are responsible for their own actions.
Physiotherapists promote the participation of people in society by working independently to develop, maintain and/or restore clients’ health, movement capability, physical activity and functional ability throughout the lifespan using evidence-based approaches that encompass physical, psychological, emotional, and social factors.
Physiotherapists use evidence based approaches and practice within their scope of practice and within professional codes of conduct.  Physiotherapists have completed an education programme, which is recognised by the state to practice physiotherapy.

10. Advanced Physiotherapist
Advanced Physiotherapists are Physiotherapists who apply specific advanced competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) within the scope of physiotherapy. Advanced Physiotherapists have additional skills to address the more complex decision-making processes manage risk in unpredictable contexts that require new strategic approaches. 
Advanced Physiotherapists may have completed an advanced programme of studies or be able to demonstrate the ability to work at an advanced level, focusing on a specific area of clinical practice, education, research, or professional management among others

11. What next? Challenges: What to do? Spreading info about ESCO to
university programmes
-> to political desicion makers
physiotherapy associations
Describe the common (ESCO) skills and competences for new curriculas
What to do?
Letter from ENPHE to
physiotherapy programme
leaders in different universities
Partnership with WCPT for defining
the competences
2-3 representatives from ER - WCPT
education group and 2-3 from
ENPHE

14. ENPHE FOCUS GROUP ESCO Madrid 2015
Denmark: Erna Rosenlund Meyer
The Netherlands: Andre an Haack, Rob Tijssen,Jasmin Pekaric, Janneke Schot and Roland Van Peppen
Germany: Marietta Handgraaf
Finland: Marja-Leena Lähteenmäki, Liisa Suhonen, Maija Kangasperko
Iceland: Bjorg Gujonsdottir
Croatia: Marko Dombi
Spain: Isabel Perez, Alesander Badiola, Carlos Calleja, Marta Benito

15. ENPHE FOCUS GROUP ESCO Ghent 2015
On behalf of the Focus Group
Erna Rosenlund Meyer, UCN ,Denmark
Marja-Leena Lähteenmäki TAMK, Finland