Responsible for the physical therapy management of patients under the direction and supervision of the Rehabilitation Services Director.
Essential Functions:
- Evaluates patients and interprets evaluation findings to determine the nature and extent of dysfunction.
- Establishes treatment goals and plans treatment to achieve established goals.
- Initiates discharge planning from physical therapy. Implements the treatment program through direct treatment of the patient, may delegate a portion of the treatment plan to appropriate supportive personnel, and coordination of the treatment plan with other health care personnel as appropriate.
- Provides advice and education to patient and family.
- Regularly assesses clinical signs and symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patient towards goals, and the need for modifying goals and treatment.
- Discharges patient from physical therapy when the patient has received maximum benefit from physical therapy.
- Provides accurate, timely documentation of physical therapy patient management.
- Demonstrates progress toward meeting the criteria for professional practice.
Secondary Functions:
- Participates in appropriate and approved educational and clinical research activities in physical therapy.
- Participates in specialized patient care clinics as needed.
- Contributes to multidisciplinary team efforts for patient care, operations, or other functions.
- Assists in the development, implementation, and review of departmental patient care programs.
- Performs other duties as needed in the areas of patient care, staff education, departmental operations, and departmental projects. Demonstrates on-going progress toward meeting the criteria for professional practice.
- Expected to rotate occasional shifts for designated weekend coverage.
- Pursue other duties as necessary
- Provides independent physical therapy management of patients under the direction of the Rehabilitation Services Director or designee.
- Provides physical therapy services in specialized patient care clinics, and assists in the development, implementation and review of departmental patient care programs.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Graduate of an accredited physical therapy curriculum with a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree with certification in physical therapy or foreign-trained equivalent.
- License to practice physical therapy by the State of California.
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI, or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date).
-BLS required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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