Physical Therapist

Job Title

Physical Therapist

Job Description

General Description Of Assigned Duties:

• Ability to make autonomous clinical decisions in a Direct Access environment. This includes ability to evaluate and treat patients who seek physical therapy services with limited supervision.
• Responsible for providing assessment and treatment of outpatient Veterans.
• Works effectively with treatment team members, patients, and patients' family/significant others, and other health care providers in coordinating the patient's total care.
• Effectively communicates in the clinical medical record and other written and/or oral sources to promote positive communication, collaboration and teamwork.
• Skill in performing examinations and evaluations of individuals who have or may develop impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions related to conditions of the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and/or integumentary systems while considering the effects attributable to unique psychosocial and environmental factors.
• Ability to determine physical therapy prognosis by incorporating examination findings with the patient's preferences in order to set clinically appropriate treatment goals, optimize outcomes and maximize functional independence.
• Ability to independently provide clinical oversight of Physical Therapy Assistants as well as students on clinical affiliations who are in Doctoral PT Programs or PTA Programs.
• Reviews and interprets consults to determine appropriateness of referral for evaluation and treatment of veterans.
• Uses appropriate screening methods and evaluation tools.
• Develops, implements, and documents individualized treatment plans, including results, veteran response, and education provided.
• Performs complex treatment procedures, utilizing varied methods to address physical and psychosocial problems and teaching new or compensatory skills to restore, compensate or adapt performance.
• Develops and executes discharge plans, identifying follow-up resources and summarizing functional status from evaluation to discharge.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm

Telework: Ad-Hoc

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 000000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized