Physical Therapist Acute Care
Job Summary
As a Physical Therapist, you play a vital role in helping patients regain strength, restore mobility, and rebuild confidence following illness, injury, or surgery. Working closely with physicians and the care team, you’ll assess each patient’s needs and create personalized therapy plans designed around meaningful goals, active engagement, and exceptional patient outcomes.
Qualifications
- Licensed Physical Therapist
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Instructor must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- No travel required
What You Will Do
- Evaluating patient abilities and developing personalized treatment plans in collaboration with physicians and the care team
- Delivering evidence-based interventions that restore movement, reduce pain, and enhance quality of life
- Monitoring progress, refining therapy plans, and ensuring accurate, timely documentation of outcomes
- Educating patients and families on exercise programs, adaptive techniques, and safe practices that promote independence
- Collaborating across disciplines to ensure cohesive, patient-centered care and smooth transitions throughout recovery
- Leading by example—mentoring therapy assistants or students while upholding HCA Healthcare’s values of excellence, compassion, and integrity
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
About St. Mark's Hospital
St. Mark's Hospital has been providing a full-spectrum of healthcare services to Salt Lake City and its surrounding communities for 150 years. As Utah's first hospital, St. Mark's team members uphold a rich tradition of patient-centered, top-quality care at our 308 plus bed hospital. St. Mark's drives the development of some of the region's finest clinical service areas such as neurosciences, trauma, orthopedics, cardiac care, and robotic surgery. St. Mark's was named to the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® list for the eighth time this year, recognizing it as one of the top performing Teaching Hospitals in the U.S.
In addition to our main hospital, St. Mark's has expanded emergency access to the communities we serve with two free-standing emergency centers, Taylorsville Emergency Center and West Valley Emergency Center. Both facilities offer comprehensive imaging services, including computerized tomography (CT scan), X-ray, and ultrasound, as well as a fully-equipped medical laboratory. Nestled at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, St. Mark's sits in a picturesque and ideal location, offering quick commutes to Salt Lake's urban and cultural benefits and a short drive to outdoor adventures and Utah's glorious national parks.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
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- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
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