Job Overview
Essential Duties:
- Effectively manages a full patient caseload, which includes all aspects of patient care, documentation, and communication, and assists in meeting departmental efficiency requirements.
- Leads and participates in clinic patient care responsibilities.
- Provides education and makes recommendation to other healthcare professionals on the team regarding patient care plans.
- Serves as a clinical instructor for physical therapy interns.
- Assumes responsibility as the PT Lead in assigned clinics and coordinates all aspects of communication to and from physician and therapist.
- Effectively manage last minute scheduling changes and prioritizing.
- Efficiently utilizes unscheduled non –productive time (i.e. Patient not available, outpatient cancellation, etc.) and improves department efficiency (ie. Assists other staff, projects, other documentation), while still maintaining a full caseload.
- Provides effective patient care in a variety of PT disciplines/settings (i.e. Acute, outpatient, ortho, hand, cardiac, wound care and outpatient neuro).
- Assumes staffing of site and patient care delivery as the Lead PT.
- Must demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills, and mature and sound judgment.
- Current knowledge of treatment practices.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrated continuing education with evidence of clinical application, program development and implementation, and other professional accomplishments.
- Successfully conducted staff educational offerings.
- Attended continuing education courses, > 24hours within the past 3-5 years.
- Consistently demonstrates intermediate clinical evaluation and treatment skills in applicable areas of clinical practice.
- Demonstrated teaching skills of staff, students, peers, and others.
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