Pediatric Physical Therapist

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's, Masters, or Doctoral Degree or higher degree with a major in Physical Therapy from an accredited program.
• NJ Physical Therapy License or eligible.
• American Heart Association (AHA) BLS Provider Certification.
• Tact, initiative and judgment in the performance of duties.
• Physical stamina for lifting and therapeutic handling of patients.

Essential Functions:

• Selects, administers, and interprets assessment tools as designated in competency expectations including: History, Screening, Observations, and Evaluations as appropriated to patients.
• Identifies and prioritizes time realistic functional goals for remediation, compensation, adaptation or prevention of deficits.
• Selects, utilizes and evaluates the effectiveness of appropriate treatment methods as designated in competency expectations.
• Applies principles of activity analysis for grading physical, perceptual cognitive and psychosocial demands to produce an optimal mesh of child's or family's abilities to meet environmental demand.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, & team in oral and written formats in both formal and nonformal situations.
• As designated in competency expectations, assists in training others. This may include. Staff, PTAs, Aides, & students.
• Takes responsibility for seeking supervision or consultation in relationship to clinical performance.
• Actively contributes to improvement plans effectively utilizes feedback.
• Meets competency expectations in explaining symptoms, prognosis and functional limitations for a variety of diagnostic groups.
• Makes discharge recommendations appropriate to the child & their family in consideration of child's prognosis, role expectations, and knowledge of community resources (as designated in competency expectations).