- Where
- Lowell General Hospital · Lowell General Hospital – Saints Campus
- Level
- Mid
Job Profile Summary
This role focuses on assessing the needs of patients who have physical, mental, or emotional disabilities and delivering therapy services to improve their developmental, physical or cognitive impairment . In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Physical Therapy duties: Provides services that help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities of patients suffering from injuries or disease. Examines patient's medical history, evaluates their physical abilities, determines their potential to respond to therapy, and develops treatment plans . A professional individual contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and programs . The majority of time is spent overseeing the design, implementation or delivery of processes, programs and policies using specialized knowledge and skills typically acquired through advanced education . A specialist level role that is a recognized subject matter expert in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience . Typically manages large projects or processes with limited oversight from manager, coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level professionals, resolving difficult and often complex problems.
Job Overview
This position is responsible for performing all duties of a Physical Therapist III and additionally oversees the performance of the other clinical staff within the same discipline and assists with the ongoing development of customer/staff relations and staff development to ensure the department operates in the most customer responsive and efficient manner possible. This position assists with daily operations of their site in the absence of the Manager or Director. This position also evaluates, develops and implements specific treatment programs for a wide variety of individual patients according to the principles and practices of physical therapy. The therapist will be educated in evaluating and treating all age groups to help patients achieve a maximum level of function using various therapeutic exercises, activities, modalities and skills. The therapist is responsible for documenting all age-appropriate patient care treatments in the medical record to comply with the policy and procedures of the department, organization and Joint Commission requirements. May provide physical therapy coverage on a rotating basis for weekends and holidays dependent on operational need.
Job Description
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Bachelor's degree
2. Graduation from an approved school of Physical Therapy
3. Physical Therapy (PT) License
4. Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
5. Eight (8) years of experience as a Physical Therapist
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Advanced Degree (Masters or Doctorate).
Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.
1. Contributes to Annual Performance Assessments of the staff therapists. Coaches and mentors staff in clinical and customer relations areas.
2. Oversees and organizes the Student Programs with colleges and universities. Organizes staff in-service schedules.
3. Assists the Director or Manager with scheduling conflicts and other staffing issues.
4. Assesses, re-assesses & treats a variety of diagnoses with a high degree of professional competency & efficiency to ensure quality patient care; Able to evaluate & treat pediatric, adolescent, geriatric & the general population.
5. Assesses & re-assesses patient pain and develops appropriate treatment plans to assist patient in attaining maximum functional outcomes.
6. Demonstrates knowledge of physical modalities, therapeutic exercise and other treatment skills of their discipline and expertise. Ability to observe and evaluate treatment effect and adjust…