Outpatient Physical Therapist-Part-time Days

Northwestern Memorial Healthcare • Winfield, IL

12d • $40 - $52

About The Position

The Physical Therapist is a licensed clinician who reflects Northwestern Medicine’s mission, vision, and values and complies with its Code of Ethics, Corporate Compliance Program, policies, and applicable regulatory and accreditation standards. The role includes direct patient care, teaching, participation in appropriate committees, and departmental process improvement. The therapist manages patients from initial contact through discharge, selecting and applying appropriate evaluations, treatment modalities, equipment, and protocols; monitoring progress and safety; and documenting care in accordance with departmental and JCAHO requirements. The therapist also contributes to patient education, physician relations, team communication, student and intern instruction, and clinic and department initiatives. This is a part-time day position of 20 hours per week (0.5 FTE). Compensation is $40.14–$52.19 per hour.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy.
• For graduates prior to January 1, 2002: curriculum with at least 120 semester hours, including at least 50 semester hours of general education and at least 57 semester hours of professional education in the stated subject areas, plus a minimum of 800 clock hours of clinical education.
• For graduates after January 1, 2002: a minimum of a master’s degree in physical therapy.
• Licensed Physical Therapist in the State of Illinois.
• BLS certification within 30 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a professional, clinical, communication, education, and leadership role model for therapists and clinical interns.
• Demonstrate Northwestern Medicine’s values of teamwork, patients first, integrity, and excellence.
• Provide patients and customers with accurate information, timely updates, assistance, and directions; respond to questions and concerns or connect them with the appropriate resources.
• Use service recovery skills to resolve problems and service breakdowns.
• Collaborate with coworkers across departments, communicate effectively, respect diverse opinions and styles, and acknowledge others’ contributions.
• Use organizational and departmental resources efficiently, manage schedules and assignments, and complete work on time.
• Contribute to continuous improvement, cost reduction, streamlined processes, and the growth of services.
• Adapt treatments creatively to special circumstances and demonstrate appropriate clinical competencies in evaluations, treatment modalities, equipment, and protocols.
• Perform re-evaluations according to departmental guidelines and adjust treatment plans as needed.
• Manage patients throughout the course of care, taking responsibility for functional progress, safety, and treatment outcomes through discharge.
• Follow departmental requirements for evaluations, progress notes, and discharge summaries; maintain legible documentation that reflects treatment response, performance, status, treatment plans, and discharge needs.
• Provide educational materials and methods suited to patients’ levels of understanding and motivation.
• Participate in committees, departmental processes, and special projects in keeping with clinical expertise and individual performance plans.
• Develop and maintain physician relationships through phone communication, shadowing, marketing visits, and rounds or surgery observation.
• Promote respectful team communication through listening, inviting input, open discussion, approachability, and timely recognition of contributions.
• Accept constructive feedback and make timely changes.
• Complete new evaluation and discharge follow-up calls to support patient satisfaction goals.
• Complete non-patient-care responsibilities on time, including coverage notes, PTO and schedule-change requests, bonus-pay forms, and follow-up calls.
• Contribute to clinic and department education through activities such as in-services, journal clubs, new-hire orientation, and performance improvement; the minimum expectation is an in-service from a continuing education course and/or leading one article review.
• Act as a clinical instructor for students, observers, and interns; the minimum expectation is one student or intern per year.
• Meet departmental standards for patients per day and billable time units, and use non-billable time efficiently.
• Flex the schedule to meet patient-care needs and attend quarterly staff and department meetings outside normal work hours.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement
• Loan forgiveness
• 401(k) matching
• Benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being and protection against unexpected life events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level