Physical Therapist - CommonSpirit Health

#The Power to Impact Lives

 Care for your patients and positively impact your community. Providing direct patient care, in their home, engages clinicians to a new level of care that can be more impactful than ever imagined.

 You’ll make a difference every single day by providing direct patient care to individuals in their own home environment after their acute stay or surgery. Practice therapy independently, outside the four walls of a hospital or facility, and work with a team that values your critical thinking skills to care for the most vulnerable patients in our communities. Thrive every day through freedom, flexibility and a fast-paced, ever-changing, never-the-same-day-twice environment!

The Physical Therapist develops, implements, and supervises the home care plan for the physical rehabilitation of patients, under the direction of the attending physician and clinical branch leadership. 

 Responsibilities:

• No on-call requirements.
• Performs initial evaluations and establishes care plan, including environmental modifications, for continued needs based on the patient assessment. Performs physical therapy treatments according to the plan of treatment.  Evaluates and revises care plans and assignment sheets based on changes in the patient and the environment. 
• Reports changes in the patient’s condition to appropriate personnel and the attending physician. 
• Provides patient care education to patient and other caregivers. 
• Participates in coordination of services with other disciplines and community resources as needed. 
• Provides supervision for physical therapy assistants (PTA) as prescribed by state and federal regulations.  Visits all patients under PTA care every thirty days. 

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited school approved by the American Physical Therapy Association
• Currently licensed to practice in the state serviced
• Must obtain and maintain current CPR Certification
• Intuitive knowledge of technology and comfortable with Smartphones, tablets, virtual reality, interactive software and artificial intelligence
• Strong communication and time management skills
• Passion for learning and teaching
• In Washington State, all providers must meet NPI requirement and furnish proof prior to onboarding