Physical Therapist (Kane Area)

UPMC; Kane (McKean County); Presencial; USD 68.000 - 93.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

UPMC Home Health is hiring a Full-Time Physical Therapist to cover Bradford, Kane, St. Mary’s, and McKean areas. Daylight hours are Monday-Friday 8:00 am-4:30 pm.

Provide age-sensitive professional physical therapy care in the home setting, including admission visits, evaluation, instruction, and treatment to maximize functional abilities and ensure optimal care. The role emphasizes adherence to system-wide competencies, ongoing professional development, and collaboration with the care team to

Responsabilidades

• Provide age-sensitive professional physical therapy care in the home setting, including admission visits, evaluation, instruction, and treatment to maximize functional abilities and ensure optimal care.
• Attend to compliance training, adhere to organizational standards, and focus on customer service for patient satisfaction.
• Collaborate with physicians and inter-disciplinary team members to ensure optimal patient care and plan of care in collaboration with the physician.

Descripción del empleo

UPMC Home Health is Hiring a Full-Time Physical Therapist.

Covering Bradford, Kane, St. Mary's, and McKean areas

Daylight hours -Monday-Friday 8:00 am-4:30 pm

Provide age-sensitive professional physical therapy care in the home setting, including admission visits, evaluation, instruction, and treatment to patients to maximize functional abilities and ensure optimal care.

Responsibilities:

• Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors. Performs other duties as assigned.*Indicates a non-essential job responsibility.
• Attends compliance training and adheres to the organization's standards of conduct, policies, and procedures.
• Focuses on customer service and continually strives to perform the duties of their job in a manner that will result in optimal satisfaction.
• Identifies, develops, and participates in process improvement opportunities within the home health agency that will enhance the quality of services we provide.
• Performs duties and job responsibilities in a fashion that coincides with the service management philosophy of UPMC Home Healthcare towards patients, visitors, staff, peers, physicians and other departments within the organization.
• Continually develops professional skills by assuming responsibility for ongoing continuing education.
• Participates in on-call coverage rotation for the agency.
• Assigns and supervises the Physical Therapy Assistant according to the guidelines of the State Board of Physical Therapy.
• Advises and consults with the family, inter- and intradisciplinary team members, physicians, and other professionals, as appropriate, to ensure optimal patient care.
• Data syncs (transmits) information the same day.
• Maintains and completes all documentation promptly and accurately, including visit assessment, OASIS, 485, and Verbal Orders on the laptop device or in written documentation while in the patient's home and within the agency and regulatory standards.
• Establishes the plan of care in collaboration with the physician, patient, and UM professional in accordance with the physician's orders and patient needs and follows the admission process.
• Evaluates, plans, and treats patients in an effective physical therapy program utilizing diagnostic, muscle, nerve, joint and functional ability testing within the standards of Physical Therapy Practice. Makes recommendations and orders necessary DME when indicated.