From the mountains to the coast, EmergeOrtho is North Carolina’s premier provider, recognized for offering world-class, comprehensive, and compassionate care serving patients with 45 locations in 21 counties. As the largest physician-owned orthopedic practice in the state and the 5 th in the country, EmergeOrtho’s medical team includes upwards of 100 highly trained orthopedic specialists and nearly as many advanced practice providers. Our subspecialty orthopedic teams offer advanced expertise in conditions of the bones, muscles, and joints. Providing multiple locations, extensive orthopedic services including therapy and focusing on continuity of care are among the top priorities of EmergeOrtho. Please visit https://emergeortho.com/careers/ for additional information

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EmergeOrtho is committed to being the trusted leader in innovative, quality-focused comprehensive musculoskeletal care. With offices across North Carolina, our Physical Therapist role uses various equipment and techniques to perform physical therapeutic methods, practices, and procedures. Our Physical Therapist assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs and activities involving the administration of routine therapeutic treatments by physical or mechanical methods that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays.

Qualifications and Experience:

• A degree from an accredited Physical Therapy Program
• Licensed as a Physical Therapist in North Carolina
• Comfortable using email and interacting with Internet applications
• Knowledge of practice management and word processing software
• Current CPR Certification
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
  

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Practice in functional, prevocational, vocational, and homemaking skills, and activities of daily living
• Consult with patients to learn about their physical condition and symptoms and develop a treatment plan
• Teach patients how to properly use exercise techniques
• Participation in sensorimotor, educational, recreational, and social activities designed to help patients of handicapped persons develop or regain physical or mental functioning or adjust to handicaps
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity program consistent with needs and capabilities of individual and to coordinate physical therapy with other therapeutic activities
• Select constructive activities suited to individual’s physical capacity, intelligence level, and interest to upgrade individual to maximum independence, assist in restoration of functions, and aid in adjustment to disability
• Provide stimulation or massage to affected area
• Teach patient skills and techniques required for participation in activities and evaluate patient progress
• Design and construct special equipment for patients and suggest adaptation of patients work-living environment
• Plan, organize, and conduct physical therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate those impaired because of illness, injury, or psychological or developmental problems
• Test and evaluate patient’s physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental and physical capabilities
• Evaluate patients progress and prepare reports that detail progress
• Complete and maintain necessary records
• Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy
• Recommend changes in patients work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work and school skills and adjust to handicaps
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies, and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment
• Help patients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills using computer programs
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean/ repair tool after therapy session

Other Responsibilities:

• May conduct training programs or participate in training medical and nursing students and other workers in physical therapy techniques and objectives
• Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability
• Conduct research in physical therapy
• Advise on health risks in the workplace and home and on health-related transition to retirement
• Plan program involving activities, such as manual arts and crafts
• Provide patient with assistance in locating and holding jobs
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students and nurses and other medical staff

Performs all other tasks and projects assigned by the Director of Therapy