Job Overview
Primary Responsibilities:
- Conducts thorough, skilled physical therapy evaluations to identify patients’ physical and functional impairments and establishes individualized plans of care in conjunction with patients and/or family members/caregivers.
- Provides appropriate and skilled physical therapy interventions such as manual techniques, therapeutic exercises, gait training, functional and sport-specific exercises, patient/family/caregiver education, and therapeutic modalities allowing patients to achieve prior levels of function and to achieve goals of established plans of care.
- Provides supervision and direction of interventions provided by physical therapy assistants.
- Assesses outcome of physical therapy interventions, patient progress, and medical necessity for continued care by providing subjective and objective data, modifying the plan of care accordingly based on clinical findings.
- Collaborates with colleagues in occupational therapy as well as with referring physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and medical staff to provide the safest and most effective interventions for patients.
- Assures continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge by designing appropriate individualized home exercise programs; instructs patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs; recommends assistive devices or adaptive equipment; refers patients to appropriate provider if necessary.
- Documents all patients care in electric health record utilizing appropriate templates, billing and coding.
- Maintains patient privacy and HIPPA compliance by keeping personal health information confidential.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with the organization’s policies and procedures, and adhering to infection control protocols.
- Graduation from accredited Physical Therapy program.
- Valid physical therapy license in State of New York in good standing.
- Current CPR certification or ability to obtain.
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