Physical Therapist

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.

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.