Physical Therapist

Essential Job Duties

• Reviews social history, psychological, medical, and previous therapy reports/records.
• Interviews individual/caregiver to discuss and establish needs.
• Administers appropriate tests and evaluates to determine functional level and potential.
• Completes all evaluations, documentation, and billing within timelines according to procedure.
• Communicates information to team participants and provides input for treatment plan development.
• Makes referral or recommendation for therapy and/or equipment.
• Develops treatment plan from evaluation results and team input.
• Conducts individual and/or group sessions within clinic to work on specific objectives.
• Communicates program/program changes to team members for consistency and reinforcement throughout disciplines.
• Modifies treatment and equipment when necessary in response to development and progress with present treatment.
• Utilizes appropriate methods to manage inappropriate behavior/responses.
• Counsels individual, parents and/or family members regarding treatment programs, home programming, and follow-through. Utilizes effective communication techniques with all co-workers including voicemail, e-mail and interoffice mail daily as indicated.
• Ensures orders for therapy are current throughout time of treatment.
• Provides in-service to staff regarding treatment materials and techniques.
• Assures current technology used with clients.
• Handles assigned case load sufficient to maintain minimum daily rate necessary to operate clinic.
• Responsible for paperwork associated with client's records as required by law and licensing agencies.
• This is a safety sensitive position.
• - This job description is not intended to be all inclusive, and employee will also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required.

Hours: Monday-Friday varies

Pay: BOE

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Degree in Physical Therapy and must hold or obtain an Arkansas State License to practice therapy. Must be registered through National Board for Certification in Physical Therapy.

Language Skills

Ability to read and comprehend instruction, correspondence, and memos. Ability to write correspondence. Ability to comprehend industry/professional publications. Ability to write/document both at a professional/technical level as well as for non-professionals, caregivers, etc.

Ability to effectively present information orally in one-on-one and small groups situations to customers, clients, and employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add and subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Ability to perform these operations using units of money, measurement, distance, etc. Ability to accurately calculate scores on assessment tools. Ability to accurately quantitatively document/report client performance.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and talk or hear.

The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.