Outpatient Physical Therapist PRN

Job Description:

This position is responsible for screening, testing, evaluating, diagnosing and treatment of injuries, diseases, and disabilities using physical therapy procedures and modalities in accordance with standard physical therapy practices. The Physical Therapist consults, educates, and trains patients and their caregivers.

Posting Specifics

• Shift Details: PRN; as needed
• Location: Platte Valley Hospital; Outpatient

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients? Join our dedicated team as an Outpatient Physical Therapist! We are seeking a compassionate and skilled professional to help our patients achieve their fullest potential through innovative and personalized therapy. If you are committed to fostering growth and development in a supportive and collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you!

At Platte Valley Hospital, you will be part of a team that values career advancement, innovation, and collaboration. Your skills will be valued, and your contributions will make a lasting impact on the lives of our patients.

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• As an Outpatient Physical Therapist at Platte Valley Hospital, you will play a vital role in supporting our clinical team, ensuring our patients receive the best care by:
• Competent Services: Conducting physical therapy evaluations, program planning, and treatments for hospital inpatients and outpatients. Participating in patient education, department budget and equipment planning, program development, and department charting, charging, and scheduling activities. Working independently with limited supervision.
• Evaluation and Treatment: Interpreting physicians' referrals for physical therapy services and selecting the appropriate diagnostic or prognostic procedures for evaluating patients' disabilities such as muscle weakness, joint limitation, loss of functional ability, and sensory deficiency from muscle, nerve, joint, and bone diseases and injuries or birth defects. Performing evaluation procedures and analyzing the results to determine the extent of patients' disabilities, establish patient goals, assess functional progress, and develop and adjust initial and subsequent treatment programs.
• Complex Treatments: Conducting tests of strength, upright motor control, spasticity, sensation, proprioception, visual field, bulbar functions, cognition, gait analysis, body image, electro-diagnostic, and other tests. Performing complex treatments such as proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, muscle re-education, bulbar treatment, and use of plaster splints for positioning a body member.
• Communication: Conferring with physicians regarding evaluation, treatment, and progress of patients and expressing judgments upon which physicians base decisions to improve the patient's function using a wide variety of surgical or bracing procedures. Advising allied health personnel, teachers, and families regarding patients' progress and discharge plans. Participating on an interdisciplinary team and reporting on assigned patients' condition and progress.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited program in physical therapy.
• Knowledge and theory of physical therapy practice as necessary to provide care based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her assigned service area.
• Active license to practice physical therapy in the State of Colorado or a temporary license or permit to practice physical therapy in the State of Colorado.
• Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association.
• Ability to interact with people of all ages; therefore, the employee must have communication skills appropriate for people of all ages.

Physical Requirements:

Carrying, Climbing, Crawling, Hearing/Listening, Lifting, Manual Dexterity, Pulling/Pushing, Seeing, Speaking, Squatting/Kneeling, Standing, Walking

Location:

Platte Valley Hospital

Work City:

Brighton

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

0

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$41.22 - $63.59

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