Overview
Outpatient Physical Therapist Crossville
Part Time, 48 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift
Covenant Health Therapy Centers Overview:
Covenant Health Therapy Centers provide exceptional physical, occupational, and speech therapy and individualized care. We are dedicated to patients receiving 1 on 1 care with their therapist to get patients better, faster. Covenant Health Therapy Centers consist of 12 outpatient therapy clinics in East Tennessee. Our core services include: orthopedic and sports medicine, neurological rehab, general deconditioning, manual therapy, balance therapy. We have many areas of specialized treatment as well: comprehensive neurological care, vestibular rehab, pelvic floor rehab, lymphedema, McKenzie therapy, LSVT Big and Loud, and certified Hand Therapy.
Position Summary: Under general supervision; plans, evaluates and implements treatment programs for physical therapy patients. Responsible for additional job responsibilities which may include: program development, clinical coordination of students, scheduling of supportive staff and coordinating continuing education requirements.
Responsibilities
- Independent clinical practice - including evaluation and specialized treatment of patients
- Performs patient evaluations (initial, progress, and discharge evaluations), establishes treatment plans, makes recommendations, and sets goals in accordance with patient needs and evidence based practice.
- Meets established targets for passive/active treatment ratios
- Involves patient and family in treatment, education and goal setting. Coordinates with other medical personnel regarding patient’s progress, needs and discharge planning.
- Demonstrates knowledge and competency including providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
- Serves as a resource person for staff on an ongoing basis.
- Provides 4 hours education/mentorship time per year. This includes:
- Peer counseling/Mentorship
- Community lectures/Volunteer
- In-services/Case studies
- Participates in development, implementation and evaluation of standards of care and evidence based This includes:
- Evidence based practice protocols
- Clinical outcomes analysis and communication to team
- New policy development
- QI/QA
- Maintains and updates patient documentation in accordance with professional, departmental, organizational, and payer guidelines and timeframes. Maintains established targets for compliance with chart audits.
- Meets established target for:
- Quality/outcome measures
- Service/patient satisfaction measures
- Financial/productivity measures
- Growth/patients-per-day measures
- Demonstrates leadership including but not limited to:
- Participates in development and implementation of new and current programs.
- Participates in training, orientation and supervision of support staff
- Participates in orientation of new licensed staff
- Acts as Clinical Instructor for at least one student per year as available.
- Participates in peer evaluations for competency assessment.
- Assists with continuing education courses hosted by Covenant Health
- Participates in professional organization/meetings (TPTA, APTA)
- Volunteers for Covenant Health activities such as the marathon, golf tournament, sports physicals, employee education, etc.
- Completes partnering activities per established targets per month.
- Physician office visits
- Community lectures/volunteer
- Case Manager visits/marketing
- In-services
- Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Education:
None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
Minimum Experience:
Two (2) years’ experience with at least one year experience in the specialty area.
Licensure Requirement:
Current Tennessee Physical Therapy license. CPR required.
