Senior I Physical Therapist

Minimum of 1-year experience in acute care preferred. Will consider staff level through senior level dependent on experience and years as a clinician.

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) - Cedar Avenue provides emergency, inpatient, and behavioral health services to the West and Southwest Philadelphia community.

HUP-Cedar Ave is a community hospital, which is a remote location of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Inpatient physical therapy focuses on general medicine with 40 general medicine beds. This position offers a unique opportunity for professional growth and program development. HUP-Cedar Ave provides an opportunity to work with an appreciative patient population, looking to have advanced care brought to them through the location's affiliation with the Penn Medicine Health System.

• JOB SUMMARY
  
  • Plan, prepare and carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain and prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
  • Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
  • Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
  • Administer manual exercises, massage or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity.
  • Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
  • Confer with the patient, medical practitioners and appropriate others to plan, implement and assess the intervention program.
  • Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
  • Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
  • Obtain patients' consent to proposed interventions.
  • Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.
  • Supervise, train and assess therapy students during onsite clinical affiliations.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate lab sessions for therapy students at area academic programs.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  
  • PATIENT/CUSTOMER
    
    • Essential Accountabilities
      
      • Ensures communication and collaboration with supervisors and fellow co-workers to serve patients and other customers to the best of his/her ability.
      • Is professional in all actions and appearance
      • Ensure compliance with regulatory parameters
      • Uses resources wisely - as if they were one's own.
      • Demonstrates understanding and ownership of how his/her role contributes to achieving the success of the Department and the Health System.
      • Demonstrates a personal commitment to ensuring a clean and safe working environment.
      • Anticipates patients'/customers' needs and acts accordingly.
      • Works to enhance patient satisfaction
      • Assist patients and families
      • Analyzes problems from the customers' point of view.
      • Honors patient/customer/employee confidentiality.
      • Seeks feedback on how to improve performance and offers constructive feedback, as well.
      • Applies learning for improved performance.
      • Presents self professionally & demonstrates professional behavior during interactions with others
      • Strives to understand and value differences in others' race, nationality, gender, age, background, experience, and style.
      • linical Education
      • Serves as clinical instructor (if student is available)
      • Assists with clinical education of students if not the Primary CI
      • Staff Education: Provides a formal presentation of evidenced-based information (i.e. in-service)
      • Scholarly Activity: Attendance at institutional in-services, staff meetings and/or continuing education programs
      • Professional Presentations: Presents self professionally and communicates appropriate evidence based and accurate technical information to professional groups outside of the department.
  • PATIENT/EMPLOYEE SAFETY ACCOUNTABILITIES
    
    • Patient Care Providers
      
      • Participates in Entity and Department wide initiatives for Patient /Employee safety
      • Demonstrates an awareness of patient/ employee safety when carrying out daily responsibilities of their position.
      • Validation of annual competencies required for the position
  • OPERATIONS
    
    • Essential Accountabilities
      
      • Therapy Examination
      • Therapy Treatment Planning
      • Therapy Treatment Implementation
      • Applies the Principles of Logic & Scientific Method to the Practice of PT
      • Full compliance with licensure requirements
      • Ethical & Legal Practice Standards
      • Therapy Documentation-
      • Compliance Audits-Total of 2 charts reviewed in a quarter by Site Manager or senior therapist. Done in 2 out of 4 quarters per year.
      • Qualitative Chart Audit-At least 1 done per year
      • Productivity Expectations
      • Health System ID is worn in accordance to GSPP policy
    • Non-essential Accountabilities
      
      • CEQI (Clinical Effectiveness Quality Improvement)
      • Unit daily operations: Assists Site Manager as directed to support daily operations.
• QUALIFICATIONS
  
  • 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
      
      • Bachelor's Degree in Physical Therapy required
      • Master's Degree preferred
    • Work Experience
      
      • 2 years of clinical experience required
    • Licenses / Certifications
      
      • Physical Therapist license required
      • Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required