19 Mar
2023
Full-Time Physical Therapist – Milaor
Job Description
We’re looking for an experienced Physical Therapist that can operate in a fast-paced workplace right now. The ideal applicant cares about his or her patients and goes above and beyond. As a Physical Therapist, you will work with people to establish treatment plans that will improve their capacity to move, reduce discomfort, restore function, and prevent disability. We’d want to meet you if you’re a responsible and reliable person who genuinely cares about the well-being of others.
Job Title : Physical Therapist
Location : Milaor, Camarines Sur Province, Philippines
Salary : $ 42.89 per hour.
Company : St. John’s Riverside Hospital
Job Type : Full-Time
Qualifications:
- Understands various payers’ reimbursements and efficiently allocates therapeutic resources in accordance with resident goals and outcomes connected to discharge destination.
- Patients should be given information and training to assist them reduce their reliance on medications and avoid surgery.
- When it comes to mobility and health, restore, maintain, and encourage not just good physical function, but also ideal wellness, fitness, and quality of life.
- Instructs, stimulates, and aids the patient with non-manual exercises, ambulatory functional activities, daily-living activities, and the use of assistive and supportive equipment including crutches, canes, and prostheses.
- Implement a Care Plan, hold patients responsible for adhering to it, and alter the timetable and plan as needed based on the patient’s progress.
- Perform initial and ongoing physical therapy evaluations in line with state and APTA standards of practice.
- By preventing the onset, symptoms, and progression of impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities caused by diseases, disorders, ailments, or injuries.
- As needed, advise and communicate with the client’s family and/or other caregivers to improve the client’s progress toward mutually agreed-upon goals and a discharge plan.
- Tests a patient’s strength, motor development, sensory perception, functional capability, respiratory and circulatory efficiency, and keeps track of the results to build or amend treatment programs.
- Consults with physicians and other practitioners to gather additional patient information, modify treatment plans, and incorporate physical therapy into the patient’s overall health care.
Skills:
- An APTA-accredited physical therapy degree is required.
- The ideal candidate will possess both a strong sense of leadership and a strong desire to learn and develop.
- Experience in a rehabilitation, Orthopedics, or medical/surgical setting that demonstrates achievement of the requisite job knowledge, skills, and abilities is sought.
- Experience working in a skilled nursing facility, hospital, or inpatient/outpatient setting for at least one year is required.
- Empathy, compassion, and the ability to encourage patients to push their limits in a responsible, safe, and successful manner are all important qualities.