Physical Job Description
Physical
provides information and feedback to patients and their care partners concerning psychological diagnostic and treatment processes in psychiatric, rehabilitation, and medical settings.
Physical Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective physical job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included physical job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Helping children improve their mobility
Relieving children's pain using exercises, hands-on therapy, stretching, and physical therapy devices
Helping children through their tasks and monitoring their performance
Maintain resident confidence and protects facility operations by keeping information confidential
Comply with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements
Providing skilled physical therapy(PT) services/interventions in accordance with Physician orders
Assessing patient needs, planning for, evaluating, and modifying care to meet goals of Physical Therapy Interventions
Collaborating with all disciplines to plan and evaluate team goals for each patient
Instructing patient/family on patient's total physical therapy program
Advising, consulting, and instructing members of the multi-disciplinary team in specific physical therapy modalities
Physical Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Physical
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, CEU, UNMATCHED, BLS, BCLS, AED, PTA, RQI
Education for Physical
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the physical job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Doctorate Degree in Physical Therapy, Education, Graduate, Science, Associates, Physical Therapist Assistant, School of Physical Therapy, Therapy, Athletic, Patient Care
Skills for Physical
Desired skills for physical include:
Rehabilitation techniques related to complex neurological injury
Older adult rehabilitation
Governmental and regulatory guidelines in designated healthcare settings
Indications and contraindications
Medical terminology
Durable medical equipment
Laws
Regulations
District policies on immunization
Effective classroom management techniques
Desired experience for physical includes:
LTC/SNF experience
Active MA Physical Therapy license
Instruct patients in home exercise programs, transfer training, positioning, safety issues
Document date, time and treatment applied at each session objectively in electronic documentation system, progression, regression of functional abilities, or any adverse responses noted during session
Observing and reporting patient progress and/or changes in patient status to Physician and appropriate multi-disciplinary team members
Providing care to students and patients
Physical Examples
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Our company is looking to fill the role of physical. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for physical
- Predicts optimal level of improvement and amount time needed to reach that level
- Designs, implements, and modifies therapeutic interventions per discipline guidelines
- Manages own time and efforts to meet productivity targets
- Delegation and supervision
- Evaluation, goal setting, and treatment of patients, progression of treatment and planning for discharge
- Verbal and written timely communication with veterinarians and other caregivers of rehabilitation patients
- Daily charting, charges, communication documentation to referring veterinarians
- Education and supervision of interns, externs, and staff members who are involved with rehab patients and clients
- Participation in marketing efforts
- Provides educational information about physical therapy and physical therapists, injury prevention, ergonomics and ways to promote health
Qualifications for physical
- Permanent New York State PT License
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Physical Therapy (PT)
- Current Colorado Physical Therapy (PT)license
- Current Colorado driver’s license
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) required, Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association required for
- Plans, prepares and carries out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain and prevent physical dysfunction in patients
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of physical. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for physical
- Diversicare Achievement Award - 2016
- Deficiency Free surveys 2011 & 2014 (1 minor tag in 2015)
- US World News Best Nursing Home Receipent 014 & 2015
- 5 star CMS center (2011 - current)
- MyInnerview Workforce Excellence Award (Team member satisfaction) 2015
- Prepares, and completes a Plan of Care in consultation with the physician and other care-team members
- Applies concepts of infection control and universal precautions in coordination/performing patient care activities to prevent contamination of transmission of disease
- Assists/instructs patient/family in transfer techniques appropriate to patient abilities
- Directs and aids patients in active and passive exercises
- Coordinates, delegates and supervises responsibilities assigned to supportive staff (RCNA, PTA, PTLA)
Qualifications for physical
- Prior experience in outpatient orthopedics preferred
- Requires graduation from an accredited school at the bachelors, masters, or doctoral level in Physical Therapy
- Licensed by Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
- Lymphadema interest/experience preferred
- Outpatient Neuro specialty/interest preferred
- PT in primary care
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Our growing company is hiring for a physical. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for physical
- Understand the role of physical therapy in the context of the patient's age, total needs perspective and environment
- Utilize support personnel (aides, sr
- The purpose is to provide medically prescribed physical therapy programs in the Rehab Department in accordance with national standards and administrative policies of the hospital
- Provide accurate patient evaluation, develops appropriate treatment plans as ordered by physician or other referral source
- Develop and maintain public relations both internally with physicians, patients, and co-workers and externally with visitors, other health care agencies and community members to promote a positive image
- Coordinate patient treatments with other departments that impact the patient’s health care needs to ensure integration with other aspects of the patients’ total health care
- Act as a provider and consultant to other health care facilities and community health organizations to facilitate department services and understanding of Rehabilitation
- Maintain patient records to assure that the patient receives accurate therapy and to assure accurate therapy charges
- Under the direction of the Director of Rehab Services, evaluates, plans, administers and supervises medically prescribed physical therapy treatments to patients in the acute setting
- Plans for and provides skilled physical therapy treatment reassessing the patient’s status on each visit and ensuring quality of care as documented in the clinical record
Qualifications for physical
- Graduate of an accredited physical therapy curriculum with a Bachelor's or Master's or Doctoral degree with certification in physical therapy or foreign-trained equivalent
- Physical therapy license in the state of practice
- One year physical therapy experience - prefer Skilled Nursing Facility Experience
- Must be willing to work two holidays per calendar year and as department may require
- Current State Physical Therapy Licensure, graduate of an approved school of Physical Therapy or graduate of accredited college or university with a certificate in Physical Therapy
- Three or more years of previous experience in all aspects of physical therapy
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Our company is hiring for a physical. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for physical
- Using various physical therapy modalities during treatment, including electrical stimulation, ultrasound, ice and heat, paraffin wax, therapeutic exercise and manual therapy
- Evaluates and develops a treatment plan that is individualized to the patient and reflect the evaluation findings and are prioritized based on input from patient, family and team
- Performs treatment procedures that adhere to standards of practice of the American Physical Therapy Association
- Completes daily progress notes that reflect patients response to treatment, actual performance, and an assessment as to status, relevant to the treatment plan and eventual discharge needs and treatment summaries if needed as evidenced by chart review
- Supervises physical therapy students, physical therapy assistants, and physical therapy aides
- Provides educational materials and methods appropriate to the patient and includes family/caregiver in education and training as needed
- Applies knowledge of therapeutic techniques during the evaluation and throughout the course of treatment and adjusts the treatment plan regularly and appropriately as patient status changes as evidenced by the treatment plan
- Addresses discharge planning needs from initial evaluation to discharge as evidenced by team feedback and documentation
- Provides and documents the full range of physical therapy treatments and tests to all categories of patients, supervises supportive personnel and participates in educational services
- Conducts physical therapy patient evaluations
Qualifications for physical
- Chronic Pain expertise/interest preferred
- Bachelor's degree in physical therapy from an accredited program * Completion of the National Certification Examination for Registered Physical Therapists * Physical therapy license within the state of practice * One year of physical therapy experience * Flexible schedule, including availability to work evenings, weekends and holidays as needed
- 2 years or more experience as a Physical Therapist is preferred
- Preferred experience in acute care, ICU, ER, neuro, ortho, total joints
- Minimum bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, doctorate in physical therapy preferred
- Minimum three years of experience in an outpatient orthopedic clinical setting preferred
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Our company is hiring for a physical. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for physical
- Additional training in the field of women's health
- Upon physician referral, conduct an initial patient evaluation to develop an appropriate treatment plan with measurable goals and time frames
- Document treatments and provide documentation per policy and procedure
- Ensure that other treating medical professionals have the necessary information to appropriately evaluate the patient's functional ability
- Communicate on a regular basis with all therapy patients, setting their expectations for return-to-work and emphasizing education and motivation for compliance with the established treatment plan(s)
- Meet with the Market Director of Physical Therapy and or other staff on a regular basis, including off-site to discuss quality of patient care, procedures, records, review of policies, attend training sessions, educational seminars and other issues as required
- Partner with the Market Director of Physical Therapy and Medical Center Administrator (MCA) to ensure center operations are consistent with medical policy and professional standards at Nova Medical Centers
- Provide input to the Regional Director of Physical Therapy on capital equipment proposals, additional PT support staff, and to ensure responsibilities are consistently met
- Coordinate with MCA in order to eliminate missed appointments, , ensure that center support staff follows up on missed appointments the same day the appointment was missed
- Promote, support and engage in projects, communications and activities which are designed to maintain, develop and/or improve overall teamwork within the clinic
Qualifications for physical
- Current Louisiana Physical Therapy license
- Minimum one year experience as a Physical Therapist in a hospital setting is preferred
- Bachelors,Masters or Doctorate Degree from a Physical Therapy institution accredited by the APTA
- Current California Physical Therapy license or eligible for same
- Baccalaureate and/ or Masters degree from a school of physical Therapy accredited by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Physical Therapy Association or its equivalent
- Possession of a current California Physical Therapy License by the California State Board of Examiners