Flexible schedule, full and part time options available.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- Establishes and maintains effective communication with physicians, staff, and other departments.
- Executes plan of care within and in full compliance with state board recommendations and guidelines.
- Responds to patient questions and inquiries as required to resolve problems and maintain high patient standards.
- Documents care and other patient information for the medical record and per state practice act.
- Fully integrated as the primary member of the treatment team for each case in caseload.
- Complies with department policies and procedures and state regulations for OSHA and infection control.
- Assists with training Physical Therapy Technicians.
- Maintains patient confidentiality.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Requires an Associate’s Degree in Physical Therapist Assisting from an accredited program
Certification: Current Florida state license
Experience: Minimum of one year experience in an out-patient Physical Therapy clinic or equivalent experience.
SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE:
- Knowledge of physical therapy principles, standards, and practices.
- Knowledge of how to use the physical therapy equipment.
- Knowledge of company policies, OSHA, and infection control regulations.
- Consistently using effective problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Skill in coaching successfully and communicating with a wide variety of learning styles.
- Critical communication skills.
- Skill in recognition of fall risk patients/high risk or non-compliance patients.
ABILITIES:
- Ability to communicate clearly and engage fully with providers, each patient, and any appropriate family
members/support structures
- Ability to interpret appropriately physical therapy plan of care, participate in the development of progressions within the
plan of care, and execution of the plan of care for every patient.
- Ability to use effective problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to use effective problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to integrate and communicate fully in a team atmosphere to best support patients/clients and colleagues/coworkers.
- Ability to work with and engage fully with patients of all ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities.
- Ability to engage fully with all patients, colleagues, and co-workers.
- Ability to work with and support patients with a wide range of physical abilities.
- Ability to use the computer system to document patient medical records.
Physical Requirements:
- Requires sitting and standing associated with a normal office environment.
- Requires occasional support all size patients in transfers.
- Ability to lift 50 lbs. Demands of kneeling, squatting, overhead lifting.nAbility to lift 50 lbs.