Physical Therapist - Pelvic Floor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

12d•Onsite

About The Position

The Osher Center for Integrative Health at Vanderbilt is seeking an experienced Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist to join their collaborative, relationship-centered care team. This is an exceptional opportunity for a physical therapist with expertise in pelvic health rehabilitation, pelvic floor dysfunction, and chronic pain management to practice in a truly integrative healthcare environment. Therapists work alongside nurse practitioners, physicians, psychologists, acupuncturists, massage therapists, and movement specialists to develop highly individualized treatment plans that address the whole person. Unlike many traditional outpatient settings, physical therapy appointments are scheduled for 50 minutes, allowing therapists the time needed to provide comprehensive evaluations, hands-on care, patient education, and meaningful therapeutic relationships. Patients are paired with a primary therapist and remain with that provider throughout their care journey, promoting continuity of care and improved outcomes. The selected therapist will join a team of four physical therapists and become a key resource for patients requiring specialized pelvic floor rehabilitation services, helping expand access to care while keeping patients connected within Vanderbilt Health. The Osher Center for Integrative Health at Vanderbilt exists to provide relationship-centered care in a healing environment. Using an interprofessional, team-based approach, they empower patients to access their natural capacity for health and healing through evidence-based integrative medicine. Their providers focus on treating the whole person by combining conventional healthcare with complementary therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, movement therapies, behavioral health support, and physical therapy. As one of only nine Osher Centers for Integrative Health worldwide, they are recognized leaders in advancing whole-person healthcare through clinical care, education, and research. Patients often present with complex and chronic conditions, including pelvic floor dysfunction, interstitial cystitis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), chronic pain syndromes, fibromyalgia, hypermobility syndrome, low back pain, chronic neck pain, headaches, balance disorders, peripheral neuropathy, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), sleep disorders, and stress-related conditions.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy program.
Current Tennessee Physical Therapy License or eligibility for Tennessee licensure.
Minimum of 3-5 years of clinical experience as a Physical Therapist.
Experience treating patients with pelvic floor dysfunction, pelvic pain, urinary dysfunction, bowel dysfunction, or related pelvic health conditions.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills.
Treatment Planning & Goal Setting (Novice): Demonstrates sufficient proficiency in developing a plan of care that incorporates treatment interventions focused on meeting objective goals. Develops and documents patient focused short and long term goals that are functional and measurable. Identifies the need for and referral to other services, as needed.
Rehabilitation Therapist Patient Evaluation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in evaluating patients with physical deficits including impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function by obtaining information pertinent to the assessment and administering and scoring standardized tests and objective measures of deficit areas. Selects appropriate measures and performs a functional assessment to document patient's status requiring skilled therapy. Interprets the results of the assessment and their significance to the patient, family, referring physician and other members of the health care team.
Treatment Implementation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in providing treatment consistent with physician prescription and established plan of care. Able to modify treatment plan as needed to demonstrate provision of skilled therapy services including progression of treatment throughout course of care, and revision of treatment interventions of goals not met. May supervise and direct certified athletic trainers (PT only), physical therapist / occupational therapist assistants, technicians and volunteers and students. Selects and follows correct protocol for care and utilize evidence based treatments. Has completed at least one year of clinical experience in treatment implementation.
Rehab Therapist Patient Documentation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in documentation practices. Documents in the appropriate templates and utilizes only approved abbreviations within patient documentation. Meets institutional standards for quality and timeliness of documentation.
Physical/Occupational Therapist Patient Education (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in communicating functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process. Considers the communication needs/level of understanding of audience and may share appropriate information/literature. May supervise, educate and train students from professional programs of physical therapy, occupational therapy and athletic training.

Nice To Haves

Specialized training or certification in Pelvic Health Physical Therapy.
Experience in women's health, men's pelvic health, chronic pain, or integrative healthcare settings.
Experience working within a multidisciplinary outpatient environment.

Responsibilities

Analyzes comprehensive information from formal and informal assessment that is pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine a rehabilitation treatment diagnosis.
Collaborates with stakeholders in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the rehabilitation continuum.
Applies appropriate, evidence-based interventions to ensure effective outcomes and re-evaluates performance to assess patient's progress towards goals.
Employs strategies to promote successful return to home, community, and school/vocational environments.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.