Physical Therapist

CommonSpirit Health • Sacramento, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As our Physical Therapist, you will help patients rebuild or maintain their physical wellbeing so they can function at their best level, reduce pain, and improve their quality of life. Every day you will perform initial evaluations, develop and update individualized plans of care, and provide a variety of direct treatments. You will be expected to consistently meet patient care productivity standards, collaborate with the interdisciplinary team and families, and promote a positive customer service environment. To be successful in this role, you must possess strong age-appropriate competency skills, excellent communication abilities, and a collaborative, patient-centered approach to care.

Requirements

• CA Basic Life Support - CPR
• Previous experience as a Physical Therapist.

Responsibilities

• Perform initial evaluations, develop and update individualized plans of care, and provide a variety of direct treatments.
• Consistently meet patient care productivity standards.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team and families.
• Promote a positive customer service environment.
• Complete evaluations according to department protocol within 48 hours once initiated, ensuring all relevant areas are thoroughly completed and appropriate goals are set relative to the patient's prior level of function. The treatment plan should be relevant to patient's problems identified, and the patient/family should participate in the treatment plan and goal setting.
• Implement effective and adequate treatment following department guidelines, with ongoing assessment of treatment effectiveness. Goals and treatment should be modified as appropriate, selecting suitable treatment interventions and utilizing specialized techniques. Patient safety should be addressed with follow-up recommended, and equipment should be recommended/obtained as appropriate. Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life-span of the patient.
• Address patient/family education using a variety of teaching methods appropriate to the level of understanding. Education should be timely and comprehensive, including safety aspects. Patient/family performance should be documented, and the need for type and follow-up indicated/documented.
• Comply with department policy regarding documentation, ensuring it is completed in a timely manner, is concise, legible, uses correct grammar, medical terminology, and approved abbreviations. Documentation should reflect all interventions, ongoing assessment of treatment effectiveness, changes in goals and treatment plan, quality improvement indicators, and interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration. Timecards, productivity logs, billing, and other logs for departmental functions must be completed in a timely manner per department policy.
• Appropriately communicate treatment plan and patient status with team and MD with no more than 1 complaint per year. Participate in team conferences. Address verification of payor guidelines/authorization as needed, in a timely manner. Attempt to contact MD with patient concerns or changes in status in a timely manner. Solicit feedback from MD and coworkers to improve teamwork and collaboration with no more than 1 valid complaint per year and no more than two complaints of the same nature per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees