Physical Therapist (PT)

Job Description

Job Description

Kadima Health and Nursing at Luzerne is looking to hire a Physical Therapist to join our team!

Our mission at Kadima Health and Nursing at Luzerne is to offer quality care to our residents, and to provide for them a loving and compassionate environment, attending carefully to their physical, spiritual, and emotional needs.

The Physical Therapist is expected to follow facility core values in administering department services and helping to fulfill all therapy-related resident care needs.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, plan, and administer treatment to residents and patients with temporary or long-term disabilities to relieve pain, restore or improve function, and promote healing.

• Assured all treatment is delivered in accordance with an established plan of care

• Provide clinical support and instruct patients, families, and caregivers

• Measures & records patient’s motor function, strength, and muscle performance

• Monitors patient responses to treatments and makes modifications during treatment sessions as necessary

• Completes documentation in accordance with company policy and state/federal regulations

Skills:

• SNF/Long term care experience preferred

• Current knowledge of treatment practices

• Knowledge of Net Health Electronic Documentation System preferred

• Ability to manage patients with different types of personalities

Required licensure:

• Current License as a Physical Therapist in the State of PA. Must be in good standing.

We consider all applicants for positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, mental or physical, disabilities, veterans, or any other protected status. We also comply with all laws governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria.