Department: 31002031 Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute Inpatient Acute Rehab Abbott Northwestern
Shift: Day (United States of America)
Hours: 40
Contract: Non-Union
Weekend Rotation: Every 4th
Job Profile Summary: To provide quality care that is appropriate, efficient, effective patient care meeting the patient’s requirements for physical therapy.
Job Description:

• Assesses each patient, as related to the therapy requested on physician referral and provides reassessments.
• Gathers data including patient past and current health issues, systems review, selection of tests, and measures to elicit additional information.
• Makes clinical judgments based on examination and data gathered to generate an accurate therapy diagnosis.
• Predicts optimal level of improvement and amount of time needed to reach that level.
• Uses reexamination to determine whether predicted outcomes and goals are reasonable and modifies as necessary.
• Involves patient and family in establishing goals of treatment.
• Designs implements and modifies therapeutic interventions.
• Uses re-examination to determine whether predicted outcomes are reasonably modified as necessary.
• Coordinates, communicates, documents, and bills per program, regulatory and professional standards.
• Accommodates selection of tests and measures and therapeutic interventions to the age of the patient or client.
• Make referrals to other practitioners as appropriate.
• Selects and delegates appropriate tasks of the plan of care per professional guidelines.
• Supervises the therapeutic program and maintains oversight of the plan of care.
• Promotes rehab services by ensuring patient and physician satisfaction.
• Participates in performance improvement and process improvement activities for the department.
• Supports and promotes new services as requested.
• Provides ongoing input to enhance the services provided by the department.
• Develops and promotes new and current programs as requested.
• Assists co-workers in managing the teams’ productivity/performance targets.
• Manage their daily patient schedule.
• Assists in maintaining an efficient clinic flow including assisting with scheduling, cleaning rooms, and laundry.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Physical Therapy from an accredited program required
• Experience in practice or program preferred.
• Licensed Physical Therapist - MN State Board of Physical Therapy required upon hire.
• BLS Tier 1 - Basic Life Support - Multisource required within 60 Days.

Physical Demands:

• Medium Work*:
• Lifting weight Up to 32 lbs. occasionally (*Allina Safe Patient Moving Policy), Up to 25 lbs. frequently

This is a union-represented position, but no collective bargaining agreement is yet in effect.

Additional Job Description:

• SCI experience preferred
• M-F 8a-4:30p
• 1 in 4 weekend rotation
• Inpatient Rehab Unit