Description
Physical Therapist (PT)
Des Moines, Iowa
Full-time Schedule: Monday to Friday / Compensation: $31 to $50 per hour
Per Diem/PRN Schedule: Opportunity to pick up three shifts per week, Monday-Friday. No weekend or holiday requirements / Compensation: $50 per hour
Select Specialty Hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. We help patients during some of the most vulnerable, painful moments of their lives – and Physical Therapists (PT) play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent treatment every step of the way.
Why Join Us:
- Start Strong: Extensive and thorough Physical Therapist (PT) orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
- Advance Your Career: Tuition reimbursement, and continuing education opportunities for Full-time Employees
- Elevate Your Skills: Clinical ladder program for Full-time Employees
- Ease the Burden: Student debt benefit program for Full-time Employes
- Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings for Full-time Employees
- Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO to maintain a healthy work-life balance for Full-time employees
- Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for Full-time and Per Diem Employees.
- Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 nationwide committed to providing exceptional care.
Responsibilities
- Performing initial and ongoing systematic patient assessment.
- Promoting continuous quality improvement.
- Teaching and counseling patients/families.
- Setting goals and developing treatment plans.
- Working cooperatively to identify and solve patient-specific and facility-wide needs.
- Participating in discharge planning for each patient, including placement, patient/family education and adaptive equipment.
- Supervising Physical Therapy Assistants, as well as supervising PT and PTA students.
- Conducting individual patient therapy regimens.
- Monitoring patient's response to treatment and modifying treatment during sessions, as needed.
- Completing appropriate documentation according to department policies and procedures.
- Participating in departmental, hospital, and community continuing education seminars and in-services
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
Current state licensure as a Physical Therapist required.
Certified BLS or completion in first 90 days of employment required.
Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
