Physical Therapist

Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga • Chattanooga, TN

1d • $37 - $55 • 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.
Applies the knowledge and skills needed to do the job while keeping informed about practices, procedures, and new developments related to own work including: communicating with patients/families and case management regarding evaluation/treatment results and discharge plans as well as progress/concerns throughout treatment, recognizing changes in the patient’s medical status and notifying nursing when appropriate, aware of changes/additions that would benefit patient’s treatment program, demonstrates good body mechanics when lifting and transferring, assisting to maintain medical records/documentation for each patient and their plan of care, performing evaluations/treatments as well as assessments and re-evaluations as needed to establish treatment plans for patients exhibiting functional mobility/self-care deficits, scheduling of patients, performing duties with minimal supervision of director, demonstrating effective time management skills by completing patient care assignments in a quality manner.
Demonstrates commitment to professional behavior by: successfully completing annual certification requirements, attending mandatory in-services and online learning timely, demonstrates ability to share knowledge while working with other therapists/assistants/technicians/students and other healthcare professionals, assessing learning needs of staff and orients personnel as need arises, providing and responding to positive constructive feedback to staff, willing to work over as patient volume requires to meet customer’s needs, reporting to work on time and beginning assigned work in a timely manner, develops and maintains smooth cooperative working relationships with others, responding promptly to inquiries, organizes or finishes work on time 90% of the time, presents professional appearance through compliance with dress code, maintaining privacy and/or confidential hospital information at all times, completing daily patient charges to ensure timely entry into the computer system and reporting systems, participating in departmental quality improvement activities.
Demonstrates commitment to personal development by: identifying areas of professional weakness and seeking out resources, offering assistance to peers, remaining flexible by coping successfully with a variety of situations and personalities and the changing work environment, recognizing and performing duties which need to be performed although were not directly assigned, maintaining appropriate licensure and certification, pursuing continuing education that may be beneficial to daily work or growth of services and sharing the knowledge with others.
Demonstrates customer focused attitude: listening effectively to gain understanding of customer needs and response by taking appropriate and timely action, initiating/promoting customer relations within the department, presenting self and position appropriately to hospital visitors and staff at all times, maintaining positive interaction with customers (patients, visitors, physicians, team members), dealing effectively with stressful situations, looking for ways to improve service and introduce new work procedures that save time/effort/money.
Demonstrates effective communication skills: consistently good verbal and written communication skills with all primary customers, demonstrating attention to and conveying understanding of the comments/questions/concerns of others.
Demonstrates adherence to policies/procedures/standards: participation in required classes and activities for hospital accreditation, complies with specific policies/procedures/assignments concerning safety and codes, providing a safe patient environment free from hazards by complying with hospital safety policies and procedures, ensures that equipment is working properly and reporting malfunctions/abuse/loss promptly, keeping noise and clutter to a minimum in a patient’s room and in therapy department.

Requirements

• Graduate of accredited Physical Therapist program
• Currently meets, or will acquire within 1 year from date of hire, qualifications for direct access
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
• Physical Therapist: TN, upon hire

Nice To Haves

• Strong age-appropriate competency skills
• Excellent communication abilities
• Collaborative, patient-centered approach to care
• Demonstrates good body mechanics when lifting and transferring
• Demonstrates effective time management skills
• Demonstrates ability to share knowledge while working with other therapists/assistants/technicians/students and other healthcare professionals
• Willing to work over as patient volume requires
• Develops and maintains smooth cooperative working relationships with others
• Responds promptly to inquiries
• Organizes or finishes work on time 90% of the time
• Presents professional appearance through compliance with dress code
• Maintains privacy and/or confidential hospital information at all times
• Participates in departmental quality improvement activities
• Identifies areas of professional weakness and seeks out resources
• Offers assistance to peers
• Remains flexible by coping successfully with a variety of situations and personalities and the changing work environment
• Recognizes and performs duties which need to be performed although were not directly assigned
• Pursues continuing education that may be beneficial to daily work or growth of services and shares the knowledge with others
• Listens effectively to gain understanding of customer needs and responds by taking appropriate and timely action
• Initiates/promotes customer relations within the department
• Presents self and position appropriately to hospital visitors and staff at all times
• Maintains positive interaction with customers (patients, visitors, physicians, team members)
• Deals effectively with stressful situations
• Looks for ways to improve service and introduce new work procedures that save time/effort/money
• Consistently good verbal and written communication skills with all primary customers
• Demonstrates attention to and conveying understanding of the comments/questions/concerns of others
• Complies with specific policies/procedures/assignments concerning safety and codes
• Provides a safe patient environment free from hazards by complying with hospital safety policies and procedures
• Ensures that equipment is working properly and reporting malfunctions/abuse/loss promptly
• Keeps noise and clutter to a minimum in a patient’s room and in therapy department

Responsibilities

• Perform initial evaluations
• Develop and update individualized plans of care
• Provide a variety of direct treatments
• Meet patient care productivity standards
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team and families
• Promote a positive customer service environment
• Communicate with patients/families and case management regarding evaluation/treatment results and discharge plans
• Recognize changes in patient's medical status and notify nursing
• Maintain medical records/documentation for each patient and their plan of care
• Perform evaluations/treatments as well as assessments and re-evaluations
• Schedule patients
• Complete patient care assignments in a quality manner
• Complete annual certification requirements
• Attend mandatory in-services and online learning
• Share knowledge while working with other therapists/assistants/technicians/students and other healthcare professionals
• Assess learning needs of staff and orient personnel
• Provide and respond to positive constructive feedback to staff
• Work over as patient volume requires
• Report to work on time and begin assigned work in a timely manner
• Develop and maintain smooth cooperative working relationships with others
• Respond promptly to inquiries
• Organize or finish work on time 90% of the time
• Present professional appearance through compliance with dress code
• Maintain privacy and/or confidential hospital information at all times
• Complete daily patient charges to ensure timely entry into the computer system and reporting systems
• Participate in departmental quality improvement activities
• Identify areas of professional weakness and seek out resources
• Offer assistance to peers
• Remain flexible by coping successfully with a variety of situations and personalities and the changing work environment
• Recognize and perform duties which need to be performed although were not directly assigned
• Maintain appropriate licensure and certification
• Pursue continuing education that may be beneficial to daily work or growth of services and share the knowledge with others
• Listen effectively to gain understanding of customer needs and respond by taking appropriate and timely action
• Initiate/promote customer relations within the department
• Present self and position appropriately to hospital visitors and staff at all times
• Maintain positive interaction with customers (patients, visitors, physicians, team members)
• Deal effectively with stressful situations
• Look for ways to improve service and introduce new work procedures that save time/effort/money
• Consistently demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills with all primary customers
• Demonstrate attention to and conveying understanding of the comments/questions/concerns of others
• Participate in required classes and activities for hospital accreditation
• Comply with specific policies/procedures/assignments concerning safety and codes
• Provide a safe patient environment free from hazards by complying with hospital safety policies and procedures
• Ensure that equipment is working properly and report malfunctions/abuse/loss promptly
• Keep noise and clutter to a minimum in a patient’s room and in therapy department

What This Job Offers

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