Job Description
The Rehab Center is looking for a Physical Therapist to join our interdisciplinary team.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Provides direct patient care, evaluates functional needs and outcomes, and consults with other specialists. Reviews patients' functional needs and adjusts care plans to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
- Conducts therapy practice within defined standards of care
- Communicates effectively with other professional and support staff to achieve positive patient outcomes.
- Documents evaluations, treatment goals, and plans. Regularly updates documentation and maintains prescriptions and signatures.
- Enhances professional growth and development of self and others through participation in educational programs, in-service meetings, and workshops. Keeps up to date on professional literature.
- Provides direction and leadership to staff and acts as a resource to promote physical therapy in the community.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Knowledge and skills to care for the physical and developmental needs of the population age groups that will be receiving services.
- Ability to collaborate with the interdisciplinary team members, case managers, and other treatment providers.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Education and Experience:
- Graduate of an American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) approved physical therapy program.
- Current license from the state Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.
Physical Requirements:
- Duties require extensive standing and walking.
- Requires lifting, positioning, pushing, and/or transferring patients.
- Duties require frequent reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching.