PRN Acute Care Physical Therapist I Indian Creek Hospital

The University of Kansas Health System

300d

About The Position

The physical therapist works as a member of the interdisciplinary patient care team. They perform an individualized evaluation and design a goal-directed customized plan to improve the person's physical function and mobility. They periodically review the patient's performance to ensure that the goals are being met and/or make changes to the intervention plan. Acute care, primarily working with the orthopedic population.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Physical Therapy
• High School Graduate
• Licensed Physical Therapist (PT) - State Board of Healing Arts

Nice To Haves

• Doctorate in Physical Therapy
• Master's Degree in Physical Therapy

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates competence in the areas of critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, and technical skills.
• Evaluates patients in clinical area served, considering all aspects of the patient including physical, psychosocial, developmental, and cultural needs.
• Communicates evaluation results to the physician, family, and other team members in a clear and concise manner.
• Develops and implements treatment plans using appropriate problem solving skills and clinical reasoning.
• Serves as a resource to staff members and students.
• Ensures documentation is clear, concise, and compliant with departmental, KPTA and APTA guidelines, and regulatory requirements from third party payers.
• Demonstrates understanding of regulatory requirements as it pertains to the clinical area served.
• Follows all departmental policies, procedures, and standards.
• Meets all state requirements for continuing education with the Kansas Board of Healing Arts.
• Demonstrates good rapport with patients and professionalism with other professionals, patients, and visitors.
• Provides supervision for PTA's and rehabilitation technicians including communication of results of patient evaluation, treatment plan, and implementation.
• May provide educational programs through in-services to the rehab services department or interdisciplinary colleagues, and teaching labs to the PT students.
• May provide student supervision, utilizing a wide variety of supervisory styles to enhance student learning.
• May assist to develop, collect, and analyze performance improvement data.
• Assumes responsibility for risk and safety issues associated with position.
• Utilizes resources efficiently and effectively.
• Takes responsibility for own learning needs.
• Participates as a member of a team to achieve organizational goals.
• Brings ideas/concerns to supervisor.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree