Physical Therapist, Inpatient

About the role

The Inpatient Rehabilitation department at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is seeking a full time physical therapist to join the team. Qualified applicants must have a strong focus on evidence-based practice, patient centered care, strong communication skills amongst a multidisciplinary team, as well as flexibility and great time management in a fast-paced work environment. As part of an academic health system and Level 1 trauma center, AHWFB inpatient rehabilitation therapists work with patients who have experience traumatic and acquired brain injuries and strokes, spinal cord injuries, amputations, multi-trauma accidents, cardiopulmonary interventions and procedures, oncological diagnoses, and various other orthopedic and neurologic conditions.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients, physicians, staff, and all external customers.
• Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines.
• Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patients served.
• Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.

Requirements

• Licensed to practice Physical Therapy in the State of North Carolina with current licensure.
• Active member of APTA encouraged, but not required.
• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited physical therapy school required.
• CPR certification required every two years.