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Job Description

Job Summary:
Position is responsible for the provision of direct patient care, including evaluation, treatment planning, implementation, and reassessment.  It may also include these indirect patient care activities: documentation, physician contact, and interdisciplinary teamwork. Essential Duties:

• Performs assessment/data collection and formulates treatment plan.
• Implements treatment and conducts treatment program.
• Completes documentation of PT treatment, patient related services and charges.
• Formulates effective working relationship with all health care team members, patients, and their family/significant others.
• Responds effectively to legal, patient rights, safety, structural clinic maintenance, and emergency situations.
• Participates in continuing education, staff development and self-directed learning.
• Participates in supervision of PT staff, new staff, students, and volunteers as requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Education:

• High school education or GED equivalent.
• Graduation f rom an accredited Physical Therapy Program and completion of Clinical Fieldwork preferred.
• Documented orthopedic continuing education within the past three years preferred.

• Knowledge and experience in rehabilitation, orthopedic, medical/surgical settings. 
• One year of full-time outpatient orthopedic experience preferred within the last three years.

• Current Washington State license for Physical Therapy.
• State PT Association and American PT Association membership preferred.
• Current BLS Certification.

• Demonstrates a commitment to service, hospital values and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times.
• Adheres to and exhibits Catholic Health Initiatives core values:
  Reverence: Having a profound spirit of awe and respect for all creation, shaping relationships to self, to one another and to God and acknowledging that we hold in trust all that has been given to us.
  Integrity: Moral wholeness, soundness, uprightness, honesty and sincerity as a basis of trustworthiness.
  Compassion: Feeling with others, being one with others in their sorrows and joys, rooted in the sense of solidarity as members of the human community.
  Excellence: Outstanding achievement, merit, virtue; continually surpassing standards to achieve/maintain quality.
• Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times.
• Adheres to organizational and department specific safety standards and guidelines.
• Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members.
• Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts effectively with physicians, patients, visitors, staff and the broader health care community.