Advocate Health Care

Physical Therapist, Outpatient

Advocate Health Care • $78K — $117K *
Hospitals & Medical Centers
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Licensed to practice Physical Therapy in North Carolina
  • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited physical therapy school
  • CPR certification renewed every two years
  • Encouraged membership in APTA (not mandatory)
  • Strong focus on evidence-based and patient-centered care

Responsibilities

  • Provide comprehensive patient care assessment and treatment
  • Maintain accurate patient documentation and management of notes
  • Meet and maintain department financial and productivity standards
  • Participate in process management for quality and efficiency
  • Promote professional development through training and committee representation
  • Supervise students in physical therapy to enhance their skills
  • Communicate effectively with patients, staff, and physicians

Benefits

  • Health coverage starting on the first day of work
  • Up to 25 days of PTO per year for personal and medical use
  • Six weeks paid maternity leave and four weeks paid parental leave
  • Employer contribution up to 7% towards retirement funds
  • Up to $5,000 annual education reimbursement for graduate degrees
Full Job Description
Department:

37635 Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center - Outpatient Rehabilitation: Clemmons Med Plz

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Varies

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is seeking a full time physical therapist for our Clemmons Spine and Musculoskeletal Outpatient practice. Excellent mentoring and opportunity for growth. Qualified applicants will have a strong focus on evidence-based and patient and family centered care. Excellent teamwork and team communications skills are critical for success in this multidisciplinary practice.

Position Highlights:
  • Location:Clemmons, North Carolina
  • Full Time
  • Relocation Assistance:Up to $7,500 in Relocation Assistance (for qualified candidates)

What We Offer:
  • Day 1 Health Coverage:Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work.
  • Generous PTO:Accrual starts at up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters.
  • Parental Benefits:Six weeks paid birthing-mother maternity leave & four weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
  • Retirement:Up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions
  • Education Reimbursement:We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor's degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree.

Job Summary:

Provides comprehensive therapeutic patient care for patients to ensure positive patient outcomes, as needed. Educates the patient and health care providers to assure continuity of the patient care plan. Interacts with other departments and members of the medical team in developing and implementing interdisciplinary patient care plans to ensure comprehensive medical care.

What You'll Need:
  • Licensed to practice Physical Therapy in the State of North Carolina with current licensure, active member of APTA encouraged, but not required.
  • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited physical therapy school required
  • CPR certification required every two years.

What You'll Do:
  • Provides patient care assessment and treatment. Ensures patient evaluations and treatments are comprehensive, functional and according to the Standard of Practice. Provides sound professional judgment in interpreting the evaluation results and establishing an acceptable treatment plan with realistic goals.
  • Maintains accurate patient documentation. Completes written patient evaluations, progress notes, and discharge notes per policy. Ensures accurate and timely documentation of patient/family education, charges and departmental statistics, and ICD-9 codes as appropriate.
  • Meets department financial and productivity standards. Understands the budgeted expectations. Maintains productivity standards. Adjusts individual schedules to meet the needs of the patient and department.
  • Participates in process management to optimize quality and efficiency of services. Identifies quality and operational opportunities.
  • Promotes professional development and education of other health care workers and provides representation on committees. Conducts in-service training programs to provide state-of-the-art information to health care workers and enhances safety.
  • Supervises physical therapy and physical therapy assistant students to develop their clinical skills and ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
  • Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients, physicians, staff, and all external customers.
  • Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines. Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patients served.
  • Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Contact with patients, family members, visitors, coworkers and medical staff under a wide variety of circumstances
  • Ability to communicate on a professional level with physicians, nurses, and other health care providers and provide quality care for patients
  • Ability to communicate with patients of all age groups and significant others appropriate to the level of comprehension.
  • Has knowledge, clinical skills, and understanding of the patient throughout the entire span of life
  • Flexible
  • Team oriented


Pay Range
$37.50 - $56.25

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more - so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance


Benefits and more
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
  • Educational Assistance Program

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
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Size
75,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1976

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