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General Summary: 

The Lead Physical Therapist supports the physical therapy team, leveraging their clinical expertise to manage daily operations. This includes coordinating patient care, prioritizing patient needs, overseeing staffing, and promoting professional development. As a leader, the Lead PT collaborates closely with patients, families, staff, and other healthcare providers to enhance patient care. They ensure compliance with standards and regulations, demonstrate leadership in performance improvement, and maintain clinical proficiency. Additionally, the Lead PT provides treatment for musculoskeletal, skin, and neurological conditions using a variety of modalities, conducts evaluations, develops and modifies treatment plans, and offers consultative services. They also foster professional growth and serve as a role model and clinical resource.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

I. Collaboration

·Collaborates with patients, families, and the interdisciplinary team to plan and support patient care.

·Initiates interdisciplinary collaboration to impact care outcomes.

·Communicates effectively with the interdisciplinary team to support patient care.

·Ensures resource allocation meets patient demand.

·Coordinates relevant information to support clinical operations.

·Participates in team and department initiatives for practice advancement and patient-centered care.

·Leads as a role model within the team.

·Serves as a clinical resource for the physical therapy team.

·Works collaboratively with Rehabilitation leadership team to increase quality of care, staff satisfaction, financial strength and program development

III. Resource Utilization

·Acts as a clinical and operational leader to manage clinical operations effectively.

·Incorporates standards of practice to optimize clinical effectiveness.

·Ensures resources support patient care needs.

·Identifies opportunities for integrating new technology to advance practice.

IV. Evidence-Based Practice

·Implements organizational improvement activities using data to assess improvement.

·Incorporates best available evidence to optimize patient care.

·Serves as a role model and clinical resource for evidence-based practice.

V. Education

·Maintains advanced clinical knowledge and supports professional development for self, staff, and students.

·Serves as a clinical instructor and supports orientation for new employees.

·Evaluates clinical competencies and ensures completion across the department.

·Participates in scholarly/clinical education opportunities regularly.

VI. Additional Responsibilities

·Assess and evaluate patients on referral using various tests to determine impairment and treatment plans.

·Develop treatment plans based on evaluations and patient goals.

·Administer safe patient care, utilizing physical therapy techniques.

·Provide instruction to patients, families, and caregivers regarding self-care and home programs.

·Act as a consultant to physicians and healthcare workers regarding treatment programs and adaptive equipment.

·Suggest and introduce new methods and techniques within authorization.

·Stay updated with current trends and developments in the field of Physical Therapy.

·Share in non-professional departmental activities such as scheduling and equipment maintenance.

·Act as Senior Therapist in the absence of the Manager.

·Provide supervision and review work done by assistants, ensuring compliance with regulations and standards.

·Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education:

·Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy curriculum that is approved by the American Physical Therapy Association

License/Certifications:

·Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification - American Heart Association (AHA)

·Physical Therapist - Physical Therapy Board of California

Experience:

·3 years as a licensed Physical Therapist in an ambulatory setting or equivalent preferred.

Service Excellence Standards And Behaviors (C.A.R.E.S):

We have adopted the following standards of behavior in addition to the job responsibilities listed above so we can create and maintain an optimal workplace environment. Your application for this position assumes you agree with and can maintain the following workplace values:

 A. Communication

It is my responsibility to:

1. Smile, make eye contact, and greet others with my name and role

2. Communicate with sincerity, honesty and respect

3. Actively listen without interrupting and without judgment

4. Welcome the views of others and encourage feedback, questions and open dialogue

5. Assist families to understand and solve their problems

6. Be collaborative at all times

 B. Accountability

It is my responsibility to:

1. Take ownership in delivering excellent service at all times

2. Create a warm and caring first impression

3. Follow procedures, policies and guidelines

4. Be mindful of conserving resources

5. Take responsibility for my actions and demeanor and follow through with commitments

6. Act professionally with everyone—patients, families, colleagues, vendors, clinicians

7. Take ownership in delivering excellent service at all times

8. Create a warm and caring first impression

9. Follow procedures, policies and guidelines

10. Be mindful of conserving resources

11. Take responsibility for my actions and demeanor and follow through with commitments

12. Act professionally with everyone—patients, families, colleagues, vendors, clinicians

C. Respect

It is my responsibility to:

1. Speak clearly and without judgment to patients, families and visitors

2. Demonstrate my pride of ownership by showing warmth, concern and follow through with commitments.

3. Not engage in negative behaviors including gossip, undermining others and infighting

4. Ask patients and families how I can best support them

5. Speak positively about our organization, medical staff and associates

6. Respect privacy and confidentiality at all times

D. Excellence

It is my responsibility to:

1. Take ownership to consistently improve processes within my role, department and throughout Marin Medical Network/Medical Group

2. Strive every day to offer the highest care possible and strive to improve myself and my work output

3. Seek out opportunities to learn and apply best practices

4. Embrace change and offer suggestions for problem resolution

5. Recognize others for outstanding performance

E. Safety

It is my responsibility to:

1. Take pride in my environment by maintaining safe and clean surroundings

2. Work safely and create the best environment for the delivery of quality patient care

3. Knows and complies with all Medical Network/Medical Group safety policies and procedures as identified in the Medical Network/Medical Group Safety Manual, Disaster Preparedness Manual and the Employee Safety Handbook

4. Knows and uses the right safety practices and equipment or materials

5. Attends and completes all required health and safety classes, updates, and health testing

6. Takes immediate action and/or reports to supervisor or other appropriate personnel any potential unsafe condition, practice or hazard

7. Immediately reports every work-related injury

At MarinHealth, our top priority is the well-being of our employees, patients, and community. As such, we require all employees to receive necessary immunizations, including the measles, mumps, varicella, and seasonal flu vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter. Additionally, the continued recommendation to obtain a COVID booster vaccination status. We understand that some individuals may require medical or religious exemptions from these requirements, but we remain committed to prioritizing the health and safety of all. Thank you for helping us in our efforts to maintain a healthy and safe environment for all.

The compensation for this role listed on this posting is in compliance with applicable law. The selected candidate’s compensation will be determined based on the individual’s skills, experience, internal/market equity factors, and qualifications. This posted minimum and maximum range represents the minimum and maximum of what we reasonably expect to compensate for the position. Furthermore, all compensation decisions are ultimately determined in accordance with our compensation philosophy. Compensation for positions covered by collective bargaining agreements are governed by the agreements in the aforementioned document.