Physical Therapist (PT, DPT) in Salem/Keizer

Position Overview

Job Title - Physical Therapist (PT, DPT)

Location - Our Keizer Clinic, 4710 River Rd N, Keizer, OR 97303 (Our newest location!)

OR

Location - Our Salem Clinic, 340 Vista Ave, Ste. 250, Salem, OR 97302

Reports To - Clinic Supervisor (i.e., Manager, Director, or Operator)

Status - Full-Time Exempt/Non-Exempt

Clinic Mission, Vision, & Values

Mission– To serve our community, moving them to excel in health, wellness, and life

Vision– To be the premier rehabilitation, fitness, health, and wellness organization in the Willamette Valley.

Values – Love, Growth, & Grace

Love

• Serve and steward
• Surprise and delight
• Wash other people’s feet

Growth

Personal excellence in:

• Mind - Intellectual and emotional knowledge, understanding, self-worth
• Body - Physical and financial health
• Soul - Spiritual and social relationships characterized by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control

Grace

• We were first loved. We should not cast the first stone.
• 1 Peter 4:10 – “As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.”

Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities

Employee will perform physical therapy services consisting primarily of, but not limited to, the following duties:

• Conform to the policies, procedures, standards, and regulations established by the Oregon

Physical Therapy Association (OPTA) and Licensing Board, the American Physical Therapy

Association (APTA), and Healing Motion Physical Therapy (HMPT).

• Perform comprehensive evaluations and reevaluations in accordance with physician orders and

patients’ needs and goals.

• Develop a rehabilitation plan of care and establish short-term and long-term goals determined by

evaluation in accordance with physician orders and patients’ needs and goals.

• Provide interventions that require the clinical skills and knowledge of a physical therapist and are

consistent with the goals established. Therapists will only perform interventions within their scope

of practice in which they are competent and/or received advanced continuing education to

perform.

• Provide documentation for inclusion in patients’ medical records per HMPT’s Documentation

Policy. Documentation is to comply with all state and federal rules and regulations including third

party payer requirements.

• Submit superbills for patients in compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

and American Medical Association billing guidelines. Billed units should reflect the treatment

performed and documentation must support this. Work to meet clinic standards regarding unit

efficiency and charge efficiency.

• Maintain effective communication with patients, caregivers, referring providers, and other

disciplines involved in patients’ care.

• Provide ongoing education and instruction, including home exercise programs to patients and

caregivers.

• When necessary, refer patients to appropriate healthcare providers for multi-disciplinary care.
• Work closely with front office team members to help meet clinic standards regarding

appointment efficiency and cancellation rates.

• Complete continuing education requirements as mandated by the Oregon Physical Therapist

Licensing Board.

• Participate in scheduled meetings, in-service education programs and performance improvement

activities, such as mentorship, as set forth by HMPT.

• Supervise front office staff and Student Physical Therapists as their duties relate to the

preparation, treatment, and conclusion of physical therapy services.

• Maintain the clinic as a professional medical office, including, but not limited to, professional

behavior, ensuring that needed supplies are on hand, equipment is maintained, and that the clinic

is orderly.

• Gain and maintain student affiliation contracts.
• Coordinate high school, college, and graduate student observation hours and internships,

including communicating with the school regarding declination or acceptance, assigning the

student to a clinical instructor (CI), scheduling the student in collaboration with the front office and

CI, onboarding, ensuring timely completion of evaluations, and executing necessary disciplinary

action.

• Exemplify the values of HMPT by quarterly community involvement in such activities as

volunteerism and participation in local civic groups.

• Promote the business of HMPT through patient experience, referral relationships, and community

involvement.

• Perform all other services designated in the Physical Therapist Key Result Areas (KRAs).

Qualities

▪ Active

▪ Adaptable

▪ Altruistic

▪ Collaborative

▪ Compassionate

▪ Creative

▪ Critical thinker

▪ Dependable

▪ Effective communicator

▪ Efficient

▪ Emotionally intelligent

▪ Encouraging

▪ Organized

▪ Personable

▪ Professional

▪ Self-confident

▪ Self-disciplined

▪ Self-motivated

▪ Studious

Physical Requirements

▪ Frequent standing, walking, and sitting

▪ Frequent bending, squatting, lifting, and pushing

▪ Occasional heavy lifting (up to 50#)

▪ Occasional lunging, kneeling, crawling, and pulling

▪ Frequent manual dexterity

▪ Frequent tactile sensitivity

▪ Frequent talking, seeing, hearing, and communicating

Required Qualifications/Experience

▪ Doctor of Physical Therapy from a program approved by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE)

▪ Current Oregon licensure for physical therapy

▪ Current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification

▪ Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language

▪ Credentialed Clinical Instructor

Desired Qualifications/Experience (speciality-dependent)

▪ Minimum of one year of experience in outpatient orthopedics

▪ Minimum of one year of experience treating pelvic health dysfunction in women, men, and children

▪ APTA specialist certification in Orthopedics and/or Sports (OCS and/or SCS)

▪ APTA specialist certification in Women’s Health (WCS), Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification (PRPC) by Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute, or similar

▪ Manual Therapy Certification

Our competitive compensation package includes:

• competitive base salary
• quarterly profit sharing (we actually pay these out, unlike many other clinics who “promise” them)
• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• generous flex time off, including flexible use of paid holidays
• licensing and APTA/OPTA membership fees
• minimum $1500 continuing education budget
• North American Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy (NAIOMT) residency program, culminating in a manual therapy and Orthopedic Clinical Specialty certification
• formal pelvic health mentorship program
• 401k retirement program with a 4% match
• 30 minutes of paid documentation time over a 1 hour and fifteen minute lunch period
• PredictionHealth’s Sidekick tool, an EMR-integrated scribe to speed up your documentation
• SmartDollar, the financial wellness program from Dave Ramsey which includes powerful lesson videos, interactive budgeting tools and a personalized experience
• flexible schedule
• no nights or weekends
• healthy work environment
• pleasant colleagues
• loads of fun!

For more information, check out our website at

https://healingmotionpt.com/career-opportunities/