Physical Therapist, Outpatient, Orthopedics

Advocate Health•Winston-Salem, NC

1d•$38 - $57•Onsite

About The Position

This position adheres to general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships, and team building. It involves following hospital and departmental policies and procedures, contributing to the overall quality of services, and staying informed about changes in policies and procedures. The role provides patient care assessment and treatment, ensuring evaluations and treatments are comprehensive, functional, and according to the Standard of Practice. It requires sound professional judgment in interpreting evaluation results and establishing treatment plans with realistic goals, encouraging patients and significant others in goal setting, and recognizing and responding to changes in a patient's physiologic state. The Physical Therapist recommends the next level of care, ensures quality patient outcomes, and supervises support staff assisting with patient care by providing direction and feedback. Accurate documentation, including written patient evaluations, progress notes, and discharge notes per policy, is essential. The role also involves maintaining accurate and timely documentation of patient/family education, charges, departmental statistics, and ICD-10 codes as appropriate, while maintaining patient records in a systematic order and ensuring legibility. The Physical Therapist meets department financial and productivity standards, understands budgeted expectations, maintains productivity standards, and adjusts individual schedules to meet patient and department needs. Participation in process management to optimize quality and efficiency of services includes identifying quality and operational opportunities, communicating progress barriers to the supervisor, and researching and suggesting evidence-based best practices to improve patient care quality. The role promotes professional development and education of other health care workers and provides representation on committees. It involves conducting in-service training programs to provide state-of-the-art information and enhance safety, understanding changes and developments in the profession locally, at the state level, and nationally, and sharing clinical expertise with other therapists, student affiliates, and other health care professionals. Effective communication with patients, physicians, staff, and external customers in a professional and timely manner is crucial. This includes responding to staff questions, promoting an open atmosphere of communication, sharing information learned from seminars, and informing the supervisor of issues and resolutions to potential problems. The Physical Therapist provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines, demonstrating age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for patients served. This includes utilizing knowledge of age/developmentally specific data when assessing patients, accurately interpreting age/developmentally specific responses to treatment/activity, and maintaining competence related to age/developmentally specific patient care by regularly updating knowledge of growth and development and the aging process.

Requirements

B.S., M.S., or D.P.T degree from accredited physical therapy school.
Current licensure in the state of applicable state
CPR certification in Basic Life Support, Level C.

Responsibilities

Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.
Following hospital policies and procedures.
Following departmental policies and procedures.
Contributing to the overall quality of services.
Assuming responsibility for keeping informed about changes in policies and procedures
Provides patient care assessment and treatment.
Ensures patient evaluations and treatments are comprehensive, functional and according to the Standard of Practice.
Provides sound professional judgment in interpreting the evaluation results and establishing an acceptable treatment plan with realistic goals.
Encourages patients and significant others in setting goals.
Recognizes and responds to changes in the patient's physiologic state.
Recommends next level of care.
Ensures quality patient outcomes.
Supervises support staff who are assisting with patient care by providing direction and feedback.
Maintains accurate documentation.
Completes written patient evaluations, progress notes, and discharge notes per policy.
Ensures accurate and timely documentation of patient/family education, charges and departmental statistics, and ICD-10 codes as appropriate.
Maintains patient records in a systematic order.
Ensures that documentation is legible.
Meets department financial and productivity standards.
Understands the budgeted expectations.
Maintains productivity standards.
Adjusts individual schedules to meet the needs of the patient and department.
Participates in process management to optimize quality and efficiency of services.
Identifies quality and operational opportunities.
Participates in process management and communicates progress barriers to supervisor.
Researches and suggests evidence based best practices to improve the quality of patient care.
Promotes professional development and education of other health care workers and provides representation on committees.
Conducts in-service training programs to provide state-of-the-art information to health care workers and enhances safety.
Understands changes/developments in the profession locally, at the state level, and nationally.
Shares clinical expertise with other therapists, student affiliates, and other health care professionals.
Communicates effectively.
Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients, physicians, staff, and all external customers.
Responds to questions by staff.
Promotes an open atmosphere of communication.
Shares information learned from seminars.
Informs supervisor of issues and resolutions to potential problems.
Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines.
Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patients served.
Utilizes knowledge of age/developmentally specific data when assessing patients.
Interprets age/developmentally specific response to treatment/activity accurately.
Maintains competence related to age/developmentally specific patient care by regularly updating knowledge of growth and development and the aging process

Benefits

Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs
Competitive compensation
Generous retirement offerings
Programs that invest in your career development
Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program