DescriptionThe Outpatient Physical Therapy department at Medical PlazaMiller in Winston Salem NC is looking for a full time orthopedic physical therapist. Qualified applicants must have a strong focus on evidencebased practice patient centered care team communication and collaboration as well as time management skills. Candidates will have the opportunity to collaborate and work alongside orthopedic surgeons and physicians working with musculoskeletal and sports related conditions. Teammates at this location will focus primarily on patients with musculoskeletal impairments but will also having the opportunity to work with specialty treatment teams including headache TMJ sports and neurological impairments.
Position Highlights:
- Location: Winston Salem North Carolina
- Full Time
- Relocation Assistance: Up to $7500 in Relocation Assistance (for qualified candidates)
What We Offer:
- Day 1 Health Coverage:Choose from either copay or HSAeligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work.
- Generous PTO:Accrual starts at up to 25 days/year to be used for vacations sickness holidays and personal matters.
- Parental Benefits:Six weeks paid birthingmother maternity leave & four weeks paid parental leave for nonbirthing parents.
- Retirement:Up to 7 employerpaid retirement contributions
- Education Reimbursement:We invest in your professional growth offering up to $2500 per year towards a bachelors degree and up to $5000 per year towards a graduate degree.
Job Summary:
Provides comprehensive therapeutic patient care for patients to ensure positive patient outcomes as needed. Educates the patient and health care providers to assure continuity of the patient care plan. Interacts with other departments and members of the medical team in developing and implementing interdisciplinary patient care plans to ensure comprehensive medical care.
What Youll Need:
- Licensed to practice Physical Therapy in the State of North Carolina with current licensure active member of APTA encouraged but not required.
- Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited physical therapy school required
- CPR certification required every two years.
What Youll Do:
- Provides patient care assessment and treatment. Ensures patient evaluations and treatments are comprehensive functional and according to the Standard of Practice. Provides sound professional judgment in interpreting the evaluation results and establishing an acceptable treatment plan with realistic goals.
- Maintains accurate patient documentation. Completes written patient evaluations progress notes and discharge notes per policy. Ensures accurate and timely documentation of patient/family education charges and departmental statistics and ICD9 codes as appropriate.
- Meets department financial and productivity standards. Understands the budgeted expectations. Maintains productivity standards. Adjusts individual schedules to meet the needs of the patient and department.
- Participates in process management to optimize quality and efficiency of services. Identifies quality and operational opportunities.
- Promotes professional development and education of other health care workers and provides representation on committees. Conducts inservice training programs to provide stateoftheart information to health care workers and enhances safety.
- Supervises physical therapy and physical therapy assistant students to develop their clinical skills and ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
- Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients physicians staff and all external customers.
- Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines. Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge skills and abilities for the patients served.
- Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills interpersonal relationships and team building.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
- Contact with patients family members visitors coworkers and medical staff under a wide variety of circumstances
- Ability to communicate on a professional level with physicians nurses and other health care providers and provide quality care for patients
- Ability to communicate with patients of all age groups and significant others appropriate to the level of comprehension.
- Has knowledge clinical skills and understanding of the patient throughout the entire span of life
- Flexible
- Team oriented