Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Description:

The iMOVE Therapy Center is scheduled to open in the Spring of 2025 and provide services 6-days/week ensuring expanded access, especially to working families. This facility will also house: a state of the art primary care facility, women’s specialty services, acupuncture and massage therapy, laboratory services, education facilities, a teaching kitchen, clothing closet and a food pharmacy – all of which can be accessed by iMOVE families. In addition, community health workers and social worker/case managers will be available to all programs. This comprehensive, family centered approach will ensure that the needs of all patients and families accessing the facility are met.
The anticipated outcome of the iMOVE Therapy Center is to create a distinctive and exceptional therapeutic space for infants and children that will improve their health and quality of life. Improving access and opportunity to children from poor communities with limited resources will be instrumental in improving health equity and decreasing disparities. This uniquely created area will design and implement programs to improve the individual child’s areas of need and increase overall function and participation. Individualized assessments, treatment plans, progress assessments and goals will be monitored at each session with family input and in accordance with each child’s abilities towards achieving optimal function and movement and prevention of injury.

Position Purpose

Physical Therapist (Family Life Center) - to create a distinctive and exceptional therapeutic space for infants and children that will improve their health and quality of life. Improving access and opportunity to children from poor communities with limited resources will be instrumental in improving health equity and decreasing disparities. This uniquely created area will design and implement programs to improve the individual child’s areas of need and increase overall function and participation. Individualized assessments, treatment plans, progress assessments and goals will be monitored at each session with family input and in accordance with each child’s abilities towards achieving optimal function and movement and prevention of injury.

What you will do:

*Evaluations are conducted with thoroughness and efficiency, including appropriate tests
and measurements.

* Sets functional, realistic, and measurable goals and the patient demonstrates consistent
achievement of those goals.

* Designs a functional treatment plan that is reflective of prescribed therapy and
incorporates applicable reimbursement issues.

* Re-evaluates and discharges patients within appropriate time frames.

Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
Graduate of an accredited school of Physical Therapy is required.
Experience & Skills:
New Grads and Experienced PT's welcome. Prefer Pediatric experience.
Licensure/Certification: 
Must be a Licensed Physical Therapist in the State of Florida is required.

Position Highlights and Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit packages available, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 403B, and education assistance.
• We serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
• We live and breathe our guiding behaviors: we support each other in serving, we communicate openly, honestly, respectfully, and directly, we are fully present, we are all accountable, we trust and assume goodness in intentions, and we are continuous learners.

Ministry/Facility Information:

• Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is a full-service, non-profit Catholic hospital, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and a member of Trinity Health.
• We are committed to providing compassionate and holistic person-centered care.
• We are the only Catholic hospital in Broward and Palm Beach counties and are not for profit. We are part of Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. Together, we serve people and communities in 21 states from coast to coast, providing nearly 2.8 million visits annually.
• Comprehensive benefits that start on your first day of work
• Retirement savings program with employer matching
   

Legal Info

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant