Physical Therapist

Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are cultivating a WARP Multidisciplinary Clinic and looking to staff Physical Therapists to provide their services to veterans in our Rockville, MD headquarters. The Physical Therapist is expected to perform the following:

• Complete comprehensive examinations addressing strength, range of motion, balance, gait, pain, endurance, transfers and functional mobility.
• Establish measurable, patient-centered plans of care.
• Provide therapeutic exercise, neuromuscular re-education, gait training, balance treatment, manual interventions and functional-mobility training.
• Assess fall risk and implement fall-prevention interventions.
• Recommend walkers, wheelchairs, mobility devices and home-safety modifications.
• Participate in prosthetic and orthotic evaluation, fitting, training and follow-up.
• Provide pre-prosthetic conditioning and post-prosthetic gait training.
• Educate patients and caregivers on home programs, safe transfers and injury prevention.
• Coordinate treatment with OT, SLP, kinesiotherapy, recreation therapy, ABA and behavioral-health personnel.
• Supervise physical therapist assistants and students where authorized.
• Document medical necessity, progress and discharge outcomes.
• Respond appropriately to changes in medical status during treatment.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications

• Graduate of a CAPTE-accredited physical-therapy program.
• Doctor of Physical Therapy or other degree meeting current licensure standards.
• Active, unrestricted Maryland physical-therapist license.
• Current BLS certification.
• Ability to perform physical assistance, transfers and equipment setup safely.

Maryland licenses and regulates physical therapists through the Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners .

Preferred qualifications

• Two years of outpatient rehabilitation experience.
• Experience with stroke, TBI, limb loss, chronic pain, geriatrics, pediatrics or adaptive sports.
• Vestibular, neurological, pelvic-health or orthopedic specialty training.
• Experience treating Veterans or patients with complex psychosocial needs.

Performance indicators

• Functional-goal attainment.
• Improvement in standardized outcome scores.
• Falls and safety-event rate.
• Visit utilization and plan-of-care completion.
• Documentation timeliness and authorization compliance.
• Patient experience and successful community transition.

Salary Description


$42.65/hr to $59/hr