Job Description
Job DescriptionPhysical Therapist
Job Summary
- Assesses, plans, organizes, and administers rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury.
General Accountabilities
- Performs and documents an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
- Plans, prepares, or carries out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
- Records prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enters information into computer.
- Identifies and documents goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.
- Administers manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
- Evaluates effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
- Tests and measures patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
- Instructs patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
- Confers with the patient, medical practitioners, or other appropriate parties to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
- Reviews physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
- Complies with professional, ethical, and legal standards.
- *The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.
Job Qualifications
- Education: Graduation from an accredited physical therapy program
- Experience: At least 2 years' experience as a physical therapist
- Licenses/Certifications: Current Physical Therapist state license
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Critical thinking
- Time management
- Judgment and decision making
- Service orientation
- Instructing
- Active listening