Physical Therapist - Inpatient Acute​/Neuro

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At Allina Health/CKRI, we offer Physical Therapists the opportunity to make an impact on the lives of individuals in our community. Become part of a supportive team that values your expertise, fosters professional growth, and the resources to deliver exceptional care. You’ll find your purpose in helping others regain their independence, a culture of innovation, and the chance to be a vital part of a leading rehabilitation institute transforming lives every day.

To provide quality care that is appropriate, efficient, effective patient care meeting the patient’s requirements for physical therapy.

Principle Responsibilities

• Provides therapy to patients.
• 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 reasonable modifies 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.
• Provide services across work areas as directed and as needed per patient volume.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Physical Therapy from an accredited program
• 0 to 2 years in the practice or program area

• Licensed Physical Therapist - MN State Board of Physical Therapy required if providing services in Minnesota upon hire
• Licensed Physical Therapist - WI Dept of Safety & Professional Services required if providing services in Wisconsin upon hire
• BLS Tier 1 - Basic Life Support - Multisource required within 60 Days
• Valid Driver’s License required upon hire - MN and WI residents must obtain a valid driver’s license in their state of residence within 60 days of employment if providing services for Home Care and Hospice

• Medium Work*:
• Lifting weight up to 32 lbs. occasionally (
  * Allina Safe Patient Moving Policy), up to 25 lbs. frequently
• Weekend only position - will include Saturday and Sunday every week
• .5 FTE (40 hours every two weeks)
• 10-hour, day shifts
• Neuro experience preferred
• SEIU represented position