Physical Therapist - Home Health

DEPARTMENT: Home Health   SCHEDULE: Full-time regular; 40 hours per week; Day-shift  

 

EDUCATION/ LICENSE/CERTIFICATE: Graduate of an accredited physical therapy curriculum with a Bachelors, Masters or Doctoral degree with certification in Physical Therapy or foreign-trained equivalent. Current license to practice as a physical therapist in California.

 

QUALIFICATIONS: Must have at least two years experience in physical therapy.  Clinically skilled to detect early warning signs of complications including medical assessments of skin integrity, mentation.  Ability to differentiate emergent versus non emergent patient care status.  Ability to look at patient holistically, not just body part or functional ability.  Competency to remove staples/sutures in the home.  Commitment to Service Orientation.  Effective written and oral communication skills and interpersonal skills. Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment. 

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Computer literate preferred.  Experience in an automated clinical information.

 

DUTIES: In accordance with agency policy and state/federal regulations, provides independent, age-appropriate physical therapy to patients in their place of residence.  Teaches patient/family and caregiver?s preventative and rehabilitative procedures.  Develops and coordinates the plan of care and provides case management. Evaluates patients and interprets evaluation findings to determine the nature and extent of dysfunction.  Establishes treatment goals and plans treatment to achieve established goals.  Initiates discharge planning for physical therapy.  Implements the plan of care through direct treatment of the patient, delegates a portion of the treatment plan to appropriate supportive personnel, and coordinates the treatment program with other health care personnel as appropriate.  Provides advice and education to patient and family regularly reassesses clinical signs and symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patients towards goals, and the need for modifying goals and treatment.  Discharges patient from physical therapy when the patient has received maximum benefit from physical therapy In accordance with agency policy, provides accurate, timely documentation of physical therapy patient management.  Participates in appropriate and approved educational and clinical research activities in physical therapy.  Participates in specialized patient care clinics outside the department. Assists in the development, implementation, and review of departmental patient care programs.  Performs other duties as needed in the areas of staff education, departmental operations, and departmental projects.  Supervises the work of Home Health Aides according to regulation and agency policy.  Demonstrates on-going progress toward meeting the criteria for professional practice.  Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente?s Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accreditation and licensure requirements (if applicable), and Kaiser Permanente?s policies and procedures.