Physical Therapist, Outpatient Position Available In Forsyth, North Carolina

Physical Therapist, Outpatient
Winston Salem, NC, United States

Job ID:

153791

Job Family:

Rehabilitative Services

Status:

Full Time

Shift:

Day

Job Type:

Regular

Department Name:

35521090237671-WFBH Rehab Services – ND
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Overview
Outpatient provider with quarterly acute weekend coverage. May work at other locations associated with Lexington.

Position Highlights:

Location:

Salisbury/Lexington, North Carolina
Full Time

Relocation Assistance:

Up to $7,500 in Relocation Assistance (for qualified candidates)

What We Offer:

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.

Job Summary:

Providesprehensive therapeutic patient care for patients to ensure positive patient oues, 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 ensureprehensive medical care.

What You’ll Need:

Licensed to practice Physical Therapy in the State of North Carolina with current licensure, active member of APTA encouraged, but not required. Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited physical therapy school required
CPR certification required every two years.

What You’ll Do:

Provides patient care assessment and treatment. Ensures patient evaluations and treatments areprehensive, 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 onmittees. 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. Ads to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizingmunication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS

with patients, family members, visitors, coworkers and medical staff under a wide variety of circumstances Ability tomunicate on a professional level with physicians, nurses, and other health care providers and provide quality care for patients Ability tomunicate with patients of all age groups and significant others appropriate to the level ofprehension. Has knowledge, clinical skills, and understanding of the patient throughout the entire span of life Flexible Team oriented