Outpatient Physical Therapist

Overview

LMC Careers – Full Time. M-Thurs 7a-6p, Fri 7a-1p. Flexible hours.
Sign-On Bonus: $10,000.

Join Our Team of Outpatient Physical Therapists Across the Midlands! We’re currently hiring licensed Physical Therapists for outpatient positions at multiple locations throughout the Midlands. Whether you're looking to work close to home or explore a new community, we have opportunities available.

Locations

• Ballentine
• Forest Acres
• Irmo
• Lexington
• Northeast Columbia
• Otarre Pointe
• West Columbia
• Blythewood

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer. Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first Heart

CARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Job Summary

Perform professional outpatient physical therapy services that are concerned with the restoration of function and prevention of disability following trauma or disease that may include various tests, measurements, exercises and modalities vices.

• Minimum Education:
  
  Bachelor of Science Degree or Higher in Physical Therapy;
  Graduate of a PT program approved by the American Physical Therapy Association or other educational program which the South Carolina board considers to be equivalent
• Minimum Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  None.
• Substitutable
  
  Education & Experience:
  
  None.
• Required Certifications/Licensure:
  Licensed in the State of South Carolina by the SC State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners; CPR Certification.
• Required Training:
  None.

• Provides direct physical therapy to patients upon referral by a physician, or advanced practice provider.
• Demonstrates age specific competence to provide developmentally appropriate care/treatment for the following patient population:
  Infant (Birth-1 year);
  Child (1 through 12 years);
  Adolescent (13 years through 17 years);
  Adult (18 years to 65 years);
  Geriatric (over 65 years).
• Evaluates patients using special physical therapy tests and measurements such as muscle testing, functional ability, range of motion, and neurological testing.
• Develops physical therapy treatment plans.
• Administers physical therapy treatments designed to relieve pain, develop or restore function and maintain maximum performance using physical means such as, but not limited to, therapeutic exercise, manual therapy and modalities.
• Documents appropriate patient treatment data, such as patient progress notes, evaluation reports and discharge summaries.
• Instructs patients and their families in home program.
• Supervises and monitors patient s plan of care when carried out by a physical therapist assistant.
• Represents the department and exhibits effective communication with the interdisciplinary team.
• Consults with other professionals regarding patients  physical therapy plan of care.
• Takes orders from physicians  offices and hospital patient care team.
• Schedules patients as needed.
• Represents department in meetings and provides in-service classes to other departments as needed.
• Assist in providing clinical supervision of physical therapist assistants, and students in their duties.

• Performs all other duties as assigned by supervisors, or authorized personnel as required in an emergency, e.g. fire or disaster.
• Uses effective time management to complete patient care assignments and meet departmental productivity standards.
• Demonstrates sound…