Senior Physical Therapist - Pelvic Health

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 provides corresponding treatments across a broad range of diagnoses and acuity levels. The Sr PT position also manages the collection of metrics, analyzes data, and leads process and quality improvement initiatives. They serve as a mentor and resource to all team members, helping to train and develop others and achieve optimal performance levels.

Responsibilities

• Leads a positive work environment and team to achieve optimal department results.
• Establishes and maintains professional relationships with all on the healthcare team, serving as the primary point of contact for routine matters with physicians for service area, shift, and/or specialty.
• Collaborates with the interprofessional health care team by actively communicating and reporting pertinent patient care information and data in a comprehensive manner.
• Provides feedback to management on team member performance and conduct, and develops skills of team members.
• Serves as a preceptor, mentor, and resource to other physical therapists, helping to advance their professional practice, providing guidance with project development, implementation, evaluation, research, and where applicable, publication.
• Precepts clinical rotations, new employees, and Clinical Fellows. Role models accountability for improvement of department score for employee engagement.
• Performs complete and comprehensive evaluation of patients to identify patient's level of function and 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.
• Advocates on patient/family's behalf to identify and resolve clinical and ethical concerns, utilizing appropriate resources.
• 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 accurate and timely documentation of patient education and procedures performed in the patient record. Accurately enters charges for services provided and performs charges reconciliation as applicable. Serves as a 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. Self-motivated to independently manage time effectively, minimizing incidental overtime, and prioritizes daily tasks for self and area(s) of responsibility/assigned team members to meet the labor productivity standards.
• Develops patient treatment protocols and best practices with research-based evidence and offers innovative solutions for patient population or practice area.
• Leads department projects, programs, and shared governance activities. Actively participates in and/or leads HM-related and approved hospital/community teaching opportunities, community services, and/or functions.
• Initiates opportunities to identify self-development needs and expand learning beyond baseline competencies with a focus on continual development as a Physical Therapist, taking appropriate action. Assists management with lower level PTs and program development and/or clinical competencies. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications

• Graduate of education program approved by the credentialing body for the required credential(s) indicated below in the Certifications, Licenses and Registrations section.
• Five years as a Physical Therapist; or four years of experience as a Physical Therapist with a specialty certification.
• 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.
• Specialty certification highly preferred.