Job Summary

Plans and administers physical therapy programs for patients to restore function, relieve pain, prevent disability following injury or disease within scope of practice.

Essential Job Functions

• Selects, administers, and interprets assessment tools as designated in competency expectations including: History, Screening, Observations, and Evaluations as appropriated to patients.
• Identifies and prioritizes time realistic functional goals for remediation, compensation, adaptation or prevention of deficits.
• Selects, utilizes and evaluates the effectiveness of appropriate treatment methods as designated in competency expectations.
• Applies principles of activity analysis for grading physical, perceptual/cognitive and psychosocial demands to produce an optimal mesh of child's or family's abilities to meet environmental demand.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, & team in oral and written formats in both formal and non-formal situations.
• As designated in competency expectations, assists in training others. This may include. Staff, PTAs, Aides, & students.
• Takes responsibility for seeking supervision or consultation in relationship to clinical performance. Actively contributes to improvement plans effectively utilizes feedback.
• Meets competency expectations in explaining symptoms, prognosis and functional limitations for a variety of diagnostic groups.
• Makes discharge recommendations appropriate to the child & their family in consideration of child's prognosis, role expectations, and knowledge of community resources (as designated in competency expectations).
• Meets minimum annual expected volumes.

Formal Education and Job-Related Experience

• Bachelors, Masters, or Doctoral Degree with a major in Physical Therapy from an accredited program.
• Completion of a pediatric affiliation is preferred.
• Tact, initiative and judgment in the performance of duties.

Certification

American Heart Association (AHA) BLS Provider Certification required.

License

NJ Physical Therapy License or eligible.

Education and Experience - Additional Comments

N/A

Job Specific Contacts

Direct contact with patients, families, nursing, therapists and other health and education professionals. May also include community groups and universities.

Physical Demands

Physical stamina for lifting and therapeutic handling of patients.

Working Environment - Additional Comments

Therapy suite and Nursing unit.

Job Provides Direction To

Assigns work to and follows up for satisfactory completion of duties of physical therapy assistants, aides, orthotics technician and assists with student training.

Additional Comments

N/A