What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physical Therapist - Children's Therapy Center, Casual position at UPMC?
**Physical Therapist - UPMC Washington's Children Therapy Center**
Join our passionate team at UPMC Washington's Children Therapy Center, where we help children grow stronger through movement and play! We’re seeking a caring and motivated **Physical Therapist** to provide personalized, family-centered care in a fun, supportive environment. If you love working with kids and making a difference, we’d love to meet you!
Responsibilities:
- Communicates patient's status to the referring physician and other health care team members.
- May serves as a clinical instructor for physical therapy students as well as residents and fellows in a specialty area of physical therapy.
- Performs physical therapy assessment, reassessment and treatment and supervises physical therapist assistants in the treatment of pediatric patients referred by a physician to the clinic.
- Develops plan of care including goals and treatment plan in accordance with physician referral, nature of injury/illness and results of physical therapy assessment.
- Modifies or adjusts plan of care based on patient's response to treatment and/or changes in patient's status.
- Rotates through selected treatment areas when necessary to facilitate organizational needs.
- Maintains written documentation for all physical therapy services rendered including documentation of initial assessment, follow-up visits, and discharge summary consistent with department standards.
- Provides verbal and/or written home instructions to patient and/or family members when applicable.
- Schedules patients to achieve and maintain a level of productivity which meets or exceeds the standard established for the facility by the organization while ensuring delivery of quality patient care.
Preferred Qualifications: Pediatric experience of at least one student clinical rotation in a pediatric setting. Preferably at least one year of pediatric experience.
Schedule/Travel: This is a casual position with a flexible schedule to include at least 1 shift per week, or up to 16 hours per week, as needed to cover staff vacations or leaves. Hours of operation are 8:30AM-7:00PM Monday-Thursday and 8:00AM-6:30PM on Fridays; this position can work up to 10 hours per shift. Travel between the offices in McMurray and Washington will be required- some days therapists may need to travel to both offices if needed.
