Physical Therapist - PRN - Inpatient

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation • Wake Forest, NC

1d • $49 - $49 • Onsite

About The Position

The Inpatient Rehab Therapy Department at the Sticht Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is seeking a PRN physical therapist to join the team. Qualified applicants must have a strong focus on patient and family centered care, evidence based practice, team communication, flexibility, and time management. Position will cover both weekday and weekend needs.

Requirements

• Licensed to practice Physical Therapy in the State of North Carolina with current licensure
• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited physical therapy school required
• CPR certification required every two years.

Nice To Haves

• active member of APTA encouraged, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive therapeutic patient care for patients to ensure positive patient outcomes, as needed.
• Educates the patient and health care providers to assure continuity of the patient care plan.
• Interacts with other departments and members of the medical team in developing and implementing interdisciplinary patient care plans to ensure comprehensive medical care.
• 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.
• Maintains accurate patient 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-9 codes as appropriate.
• 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.
• 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.
• Supervises physical therapy and physical therapy assistant students to develop their clinical skills and ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
• Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients, physicians, staff, and all external customers.
• Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines.
• Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patients served.
• Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.

Benefits

• Day 1 Health Coverage: Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work.
• Generous PTO: Accrual starts at up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters.
• Parental Benefits: Six weeks paid birthing-mother maternity leave & four weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
• Retirement: Up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions
• Education Reimbursement: We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor's degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree.

What This Job Offers

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