Melrose/Wakefield Hospital, part of the Tufts Medicine system, has been offering the highest quality and accessible healthcare to the local community for over 130 years.  With two hospital campuses, Level III Trauma Center, Level III Special Care Nursery, Breast Health Center, Cardiovascular Center and over 20 locations and 50 specialties, Melrose/Wakefield Hospital offers many opportunities to grow your career.  

If you are passionate about providing care in your local community, come join our team!

Why Join Us?

We're excited to extend newly enhanced, highly competitive, sign-on bonuses

• Competitive salaries

• Medical, dental, vision insurance that start on day one

• 403(b) retirement plan with company match

• Generous earned time benefits

• Tuition reimbursement

• Clinical mobility tracks

• Free on-campus parking

Location: 888 Main Street - Wakefield, MA

Hours: 40 hours - Mon-Thur 7:30am-6:00pm - Fri 7:30am-12:30pm

Job Overview 

This position evaluates, develops and implements specific treatment programs for 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. This position supervises staff therapists and senior therapists, and is responsible for program planning for provision of efficient and quality therapy services. This position involves training of staff therapists and senior therapists entering rotation, coordination and staffing of clinics, monitoring and distribution of referrals and handling a patient caseload.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s Degree. 

2. Graduation from an approved school of Physical Therapy. 

3. Physical Therapy (PT) License. Licensure in NH may be required depending on assigned territory and operational need.

4. Three (3) years of clinical experience with one year in an acute care setting. 

5. American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Membership or specialty equivalent. 

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. Performs the more difficult duties of a staff therapist. 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. 

2. Assesses & re-assesses patient pain and develops appropriate treatment plan to assist patient in attaining maximum functional outcomes. 

3. Interacts professionally with patient/family and involves patient/family in the formation of plan of care; formulates a teaching plan based upon identified learning, cultural and psychosocial needs. 

4. Sets realistic short and long term goals and plan of care related to patient’s physical therapy needs within the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, and integumentary systems.  

5. Supervises and educates students and evaluates the student’s performance.   

6. Maintains and completes proper and timely documentation in the medical record for all patients treated to promote communication to physicians and to ensure proper reimbursement.  

7. Prepares department for JCAHO surveys and participates in CQI activities.  Performs other related duties as assigned and/or necessary to assure appropriate patient care. 

8. Attends intra-departmental rounds, team meetings, and case conferences and staff meetings.  Attends professional meetings, courses and conferences to continue education. 

9. Works directly and collaboratively with the interdisciplinary health care team, the patient, and the patient’s family to promote maximum level of patient safety and independence in discharge planning. 

10. Educates and in-services staff on clinical skills, acts as a clinical liaison to other staff. Assumes accountability for professional growth and development in order to maintain a high level of clinical competency, accepts role of clinical instructor. 

11. Acts as a clinical and non-clinical resource, particularly in an area of subspecialty expertise. 

12. Keeps abreast of new techniques and interventions. Establishes, revises and implements new procedures, policies and research activities in cooperation with staff to contribute to practice improvement. 

13. Clinically supervises and mentors other therapists.  Assists in managing and overseeing competence of staff therap