Senior Physical Therapist

HMH · Spring Valley, NV · 6 days ago

HealthcareFull-time

About the role

The Senior Physical Therapist (Sr PT) position at Houston Methodist is responsible for formal duties for a service line, shift, or multiple clinics. This role performs patient assessments, develops a plan of care, and delivers treatments across a broad range of diagnoses and acuities or for a specialized service line. The Sr PT position also manages the collection of metrics, analyzes data, and develops best practices, identifies and leads process and quality improvement initiatives, serves as a mentor and resource to all team members, conducts quality assurance audits of staff performance, provides feedback to management on staff performance, and identifies developmental needs.

Responsibilities

Performs complete and comprehensive evaluation of patients to identify patient's level of function and to develop the plan of care.
Performs highly advanced therapy treatments serving as the clinical expert for complex to high difficulty level patient assessments and treatments for assigned area of practice and/or patient population.
Provides education to patients, patient's family members, and/or caregivers, based on learning needs.
Consistently evaluates the patient’s comprehension and adapts teaching methods accordingly.
Serves as subject matter expert and resource to clinical fellows and nursing in teaching best practices and education.
Advocates on patient/family's behalf to identify and resolve clinical and ethical concerns, utilizing appropriate resources.
Drives improvement of department score for patient satisfaction, through role modeling accountability of service standards.
Affirms and modifies goals, and plan or program as indicated.
Proactively anticipates complications/limitations associated with certain procedures and addresses such for optimum outcomes.
Coordinates, monitors and reports on various quality and safety metrics for the practice area and/or department.
Develops and implements initiatives to improve the patient experience.
Proactively identifies opportunities for corrective action, leads process improvement providing recommendations, and contributes to meeting departmental and hospital targets for quality and safety.
Oversees the work flow, caseload and patient processes and treatments for assigned team/area, ensuring quality outcomes and the safety of the patient, adjusting activities as applicable.
Coordinates activities for the service line, shift, and/or clinics and as requested for the department.
Maintains and accurately enters charges for services provided and performs charges reconciliation as applicable.
Serves as resource to management for chargemaster item/CPT (Code and Procedure Terminology) code maintenance and development for physical therapy charges.
Uses resources efficiently to maximize utilization of time and equipment.
Monitors the accuracy and completion of documentation of patient education and procedures performed in a timely manner in the patient record.
Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management.
Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an on-going basis.

Requirements

Graduate of education program approved by the credentialing body for the required credential(s) indicated below in the Certifications, Licenses and Registrations section. Experience: Five years as a Physical Therapist; or four years of experience as a Physical Therapist with a specialty certification. Knowledge and Abilities: Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations. Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security. Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles. Ability to work independently, capable of handling challenging/difficult therapy procedures and patient care situations; demonstrates sound judgment. Ability to coach and develop strong interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills with all levels of the healthcare team. Exhibits excellent delivery of customer service to all patients, visitors, physicians and co-workers; demonstrates ability to establish and maintain highly effective professional relationships with physicians. Possesses proficient computer knowledge; operates multiple computer systems and standard Rehabilitation equipment. Demonstrates professional and technical competence in the selection, evaluation, utilization of treatment plans for increasingly complex patient populations.

Qualifications

Education: Graduate of education program approved by the credentialing body for the required credential(s) indicated below in the Certifications, Licenses and Registrations section.
Experience: Five years as a Physical Therapist; or four years of experience as a Physical Therapist with a specialty certification.
Licenses and Certifications: Required PT - Physical Therapist - State Licensure - Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation_PSV within 90 days and BLS - Basic Life Support or Instructor (AHA) - American Heart Association. Preferred Specialty certification highly preferred.

Skills

Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations. Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security. Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles. Ability to work independently, capable of handling challenging/difficult therapy procedures and patient care situations; demonstrates sound judgment. Ability to coach and develop strong interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills with all levels of the healthcare team. Exhibits excellent delivery of customer service to all patients, visitors, physicians and co-workers; demonstrates ability to establish and maintain highly effective professional relationships with physicians. Possesses proficient computer knowledge; operates multiple computer systems and standard Rehabilitation equipment. Demonstrates professional and technical competence in the selection, evaluation, utilization of treatment plans for increasingly complex patient populations.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay