Physical Therapist, Outpatient-Pediatrics, Winston Salem

Excellent mentoring and opportunity for growth and development. The Pediatric Therapy Department at AHWFB is seeking a full - time Physical Therapist at our main academic medical center practice. Qualified applicants will have a strong focus on patient and family center, excellent time management and team interaction skills.

JOB SUMMARY: 

Provides comprehensive therapeutic patient care for patients to ensure positive patient outcomes, as needed. Educates the patient and health care providers to assure continuity of the patient care plan. Interacts with other departments and members of the medical team in developing and implementing interdisciplinary patient care plans to ensure comprehensive medical care. 

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: 

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited physical therapy school required. M.S. or D.P.T. preferred. 
• Previous hospital experience preferred. 

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: 

• Licensed to practice Physical Therapy in the State of North Carolina with current licensure, active member of APTA encouraged, but not required. 
• CPR certification required every two years. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

• Provides patient care assessment and treatment. Ensures patient evaluations and treatments are comprehensive, functional and according to the Standard of Practice. Provides sound professional judgment in interpreting the evaluation results and establishing an acceptable treatment plan with realistic goals. 
• Maintains accurate patient documentation. Completes written patient evaluations, progress notes, and discharge notes per policy. Ensures accurate and timely documentation of patient/family education, charges and departmental statistics, and ICD-9 codes as appropriate. 
• Meets department financial and productivity standards. Understands the budgeted expectations. Maintains productivity standards. Adjusts individual schedules to meet the needs of the patient and department.
• Participates in process management to optimize quality and efficiency of services. Identifies quality and operational opportunities. 
• Promotes professional development and education of other health care workers and provides representation on committees. Conducts in-service training programs to provide state-of-the-art information to health care workers and enhances safety. 
• Supervises physical therapy and physical therapy assistant students to develop their clinical skills and ensure the delivery of quality patient care. 
• Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients, physicians, staff, and all external customers. 
• Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines. Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patients served. 
• Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building. 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Contact with patients, family members, visitors, coworkers and medical staff under a wide variety of circumstances 
• Ability to communicate on a professional level with physicians, nurses, and other health care providers and provide quality care for patients 
• Ability to communicate with patients of all age groups and significant others appropriate to the level of comprehension. 
• Has knowledge, clinical skills, and understanding of the patient throughout the entire span of life 
• Flexible 
• Team oriented 

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

• Clean, well-lit comfortable climate; however, occasional conditions with high moisture content 
• Moderate noise environment 
• May make home visits 
• Subject to electro-mechanical hazards 
• Subject to stressful conditions 
• Occasionally handles emergency or crises situations 
• Exposure to unpleasant patient elements, body fluids 
• Frequent exposure to bloodborne pathogens and airborne pathogens, may be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases 
• Possible exposure to chemicals used in cleaning 
• Required personal protective equipment eye protection, face protection, gown, mask, lab coat and sterile and non-sterile gloves, shoe covers

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.