RWJBarnabas Health
Description
Plans and administers physical therapy programs for patients to restore function, relieve pain, prevent disability following injury or disease within scope of practice.
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).
- Meets minimum annual expected volumes.