Pediatric Physical Therapist; PT - Per Diem - Union, NJ

Job Overview

Plans and administers physical therapy programs for patients to restore function, relieve pain, prevent disability following injury or disease within scope of practice.

• Essential Functions:
  
  Selects, administers, and interprets assessment tools as designated in competency expectations including History, Screening, Observations, and Evaluations as appropriate to patients.
• Identifies and prioritizes time-realistic functional goals for remediation, compensation, adaptation or prevention of deficits.
• Selects, utilizes and evaluates the effectiveness of appropriate treatment methods as designated in competency expectations.
• Applies principles of activity analysis for grading physical, perceptual/cognitive and psychosocial demands to produce an optimal mesh of child s or family s abilities to meet environmental demand.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, and the team in oral and written formats in both formal and non-formal situations.
• Assists in training others as designated in competency expectations (staff, PTAs, aides, and students).
• Takes responsibility for seeking supervision or consultation in relation to clinical performance.
• Actively contributes to improvement plans and effectively utilizes feedback.
• Meets competency expectations in explaining symptoms, prognosis and functional limitations for a variety of diagnostic groups.
• Makes discharge recommendations appropriate to the child and family in consideration of prognosis, role expectations, and knowledge of community resources (as designated in competency expectations).
• Meets minimum annual expected volumes.
• Direct contact with patients, families, nursing, therapists and other health and education professionals; may also include community groups and universities.
• Assigns work to and follows up for satisfactory completion of duties of physical therapy assistants, aides, orthotics technicians and assists with student training.

• Physical Therapy Degree from an accredited program
• NJ Physical Therapy License
• American Heart Association (AHA) BLS Provider Certification
• Tact, initiative and judgment in the performance of duties
• Physical stamina for lifting and therapeutic handling of patients

• Doctoral Degree
• Completion of a pediatric affiliation

• NJ Physical Therapy License
• American Heart Association (AHA) BLS Provider Certification

• Per Diem

• Selects, administers, and interprets assessment tools as designated in competency expectations including:
  History, Screening, Observations, and Evaluations as appropriate to patients.
• Identifies and prioritizes time realistic functional goals for remediation, compensation, adaptation or prevention of deficits.
• Selects, utilizes and evaluates the effectiveness of appropriate treatment methods as designated in competency expectations.
• Applies principles of activity analysis for grading physical, perceptual/cognitive and psychosocial demands to produce an optimal mesh of child s or family s abilities to meet environmental demand.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, & team in oral and written formats in both formal and non-formal situations.
• As designated in competency expectations, assists in training others; this may include staff, PTAs, aides, and students.
• Takes responsibility for seeking supervision or consultation in relationship to clinical performance.
• Actively contributes to improvement plans and effectively utilizes feedback.
• Meets competency expectations in explaining symptoms, prognosis and functional limitations for a variety of diagnostic groups.
• Makes discharge recommendations appropriate to the child & a family in consideration of prognosis, role expectations, and knowledge of community resources (as designated in competency expectations).
• Meets minimum annual expected volumes.
• Direct contact with patients, families, nursing, therapists and other health and education professionals; may also include community groups and universities.
• Assigns work to and follows up for satisfactory completion of duties of physical therapy assistants, aides, orthotics technicians and assists with student training.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at anytime with or without notice.

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees’ physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

• Retirement Plans
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RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer