Physical Therapy Employment

Pay Scale:  $31.86 - $40.87
 
Job Summary:
 
Significant sign-on bonus offered for this position.
Under the direction of the Facility Director/Administrator, the Physical Therapist provides hands-on direct care including evaluation, treatment, education, updating the patient's treatment, and discharge planning as a member of the treatment team.
 
Essential Functions: 

• Performs client tests, measurements and evaluations as appropriate.


• Plans and prepares written treatment programs based on evaluation, age-related and diagnosis-related policies.


• Administers treatments as prescribed and according to the treatment plan.


• Monitors all patients under his/her care; including those being seen by a technician and assures appropriate treatment and documentation.


• Evaluates effectiveness of treatment and adjusts the treatment to achieve maximum benefits.


• If treatment needs to be altered from that prescribed or planned, the therapist receives physician approval for such changes.


• Participates actively in team conferences, team planning processes, and goal setting for each client.


• Maintains timely and appropriate documentation of reports, updated treatment plans, discharges and other client-oriented documentation.


• Provides inservices appropriate to staff.


• Seeks assistance from other staff members or supervisor when there are conflicts (i.e. scheduling, difficult patients or other issues).


• Performs other job-related duties as assigned by the Facility Director/Administrator.


• Maintains the highest level of client rapport.


• Actively involved in the Quality Assurance Program implemented by the Facility Director/Administrator.

Education:

• Must be a graduate of an accredited program and be a Physical Therapist in good standing. 
  

Experience:

• Some experience in dealing with a broad based rehabilitation facility is preferred.

License/Certification:

• Current Oregon Physical Therapist License.


• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required within 30 days of hire.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates a commitment to service, hospital values and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times.


• Adheres to and exhibits Catholic Health Initiatives core values:
  
  Reverence: Having a profound spirit of awe and respect for all creation, shaping relationships to self, to one another and to God and acknowledging that we hold in trust all that has been given to us.
  
  Integrity: Moral wholeness, soundness, uprightness, honesty and sincerity as a basis of trustworthiness.
  
  Compassion: Feeling with others, being one with others in their sorrows and joys, rooted in the sense of solidarity as members of the human community.
  
  Excellence: Outstanding achievement, merit, virtue; continually surpassing standards to achieve/maintain quality.


• Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times.


• Adheres to organizational and department specific safety standards and guidelines.


• Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members.


• Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts effectively with physicians, patients, visitors, staff and the broader health care community.

 *hec*Catholic Health Initiatives and its organizations are Equal Opportunity Employers.

Job:  Rehabilitation Therapy Services

Shift:  1

Scheduled Hours per 2-week Pay Period:  80

Weekends Required:  Every Other

Status:  Every Other