SLH Senior Physical Therapist

Summary

The SLH Senior Physical Therapist under limited technical supervision evaluates and treats a broad spectrum of patients. They communicate with staff members, physicians, and other disciplines and assist with program planning. Duties include accepting responsibility for non-patient care tasks, administering comprehensive PT evaluations, coordinating schedules, attending in-service training, communicating with patients and families, completing administrative forms, conferencing with healthcare team members, developing and implementing treatment plans, documenting patient care, orienting and supervising new staff, participating in quality assurance, and ensuring safety.

Duties & Essential Job Functions

• Accepts responsibility for non-patient care duties, such as task forces, in-service new staff, organization, which aids in the delivery of care of the department.
• Administers comprehensive PT evaluations, using tests and measurements appropriate for the patient’s diagnosis, age, and disabilities. Completes in a timely manner.
• Arranges schedules to accommodate patient care when a team member is absent. Coordinates scheduling of patients as appropriate to the service. Assists with basic operational oversight when department manager is absent.
• Attends, participates, and contributes to in-service educational training.
• Communicates with patient and family. Educates patient, family, other caregivers in self-care, prevention and wellness, home exercise programs, use of equipment, and safety.
• Completes required administrative forms for leave of absences, payroll, and statistics. Uses time clock appropriately. Completes annual competencies, health tests, and surveys in a timely manner.
• Confers individually and/or in team meetings with physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health care team members about patient status and/or discharge planning.
• Confers with other PT’s, assistants, aides, clerical staff and department leader as appropriate for problem solving and program planning.
• Develops and implements a treatment plan using various physical therapy procedures, equipment, modalities, and techniques to produce positive changes in patient outcomes. Orders, recommends, or obtains referrals for necessary assistive devices, bracing, prosthetics, or continuation of therapy in another setting.
• Documentation: Writes clear, concise, legible, and objective information on patient evaluations, progress notes, discharge notes, equipment orders, and insurance forms. Utilizes electronic health record efficiently for information gathering. Completes documentation in a timely manner.
• Orients and supervises new staff members and students. Proofreads notes and supervises patient care until assured of their competence. Helps evaluate staff PTs, PT Assistants, and PT Aides. Evaluates students fairly and accurately with the approved clinical evaluation tools.
• Participates in gathering data for Continuing Quality Assurance, Performance Improvement, staff surveys, etc.
• Uses appropriate safety measures – body mechanics, infection control, environmental hazard control; cleans treatment area after use.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Graduation from an approved school of Physical Therapy.
• Experience: One year of experience as a Physical Therapist as employed by Alameda Health System; OR three to five years or more of recent experience in another clinical setting related to the area of proposed supervision (acute medical, rehab, SNF, or outpatient).
• Licenses/Certifications: Current Licensure with the California Board of Physical Therapy as a Physical Therapist.
• Licenses/Certifications: BLS - Basic Life Support Certification - issued by AHA-American Heart Association.

Pay

$66.48 / Hour