Minimum of 1-year experience in acute care preferred. Will consider staff level through senior level dependent on experience and years as a clinician.

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) – Cedar Avenue provides emergency, inpatient, and behavioral health services to the West and Southwest Philadelphia community.

HUP-Cedar Ave is a community hospital, which is a remote location of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Inpatient physical therapy focuses on general medicine with 40 general medicine beds. This position offers a unique opportunity for professional growth and program development. HUP-Cedar Ave provides an opportunity to work with an appreciative patient population, looking to have advanced care brought to them through the location’s affiliation with the Penn Medicine Health System.

• JOB SUMMARY

  • Plan, prepare and carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain and prevent physical dysfunction in patients.

  • Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.

  • Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.

  • Administer manual exercises, massage or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity.

  • Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.

  • Confer with the patient, medical practitioners and appropriate others to plan, implement and assess the intervention program.

  • Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.

  • Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.

  • Obtain patients' consent to proposed interventions.

  • Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.

  • Supervise, train and assess therapy students during onsite clinical affiliations.

  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate lab sessions for therapy students at area academic programs.

  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

• ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • PATIENT/CUSTOMER

    • Essential Accountabilities

      • Ensures communication and collaboration with supervisors and fellow co-workers to serve patients and other customers to the best of his/her ability.

      • Is professional in all actions and appearance

      • Ensure compliance with regulatory parameters

      • Uses resources wisely – as if they were one’s own.

      • Demonstrates understanding and ownership of how his/her role contributes to achieving the success of the Department and the Health System.

      • Demonstrates a personal commitment to ensuring a clean and safe working environment.

      • Anticipates patients’/customers’ needs and acts accordingly.

      • Works to enhance patient satisfaction

      • Assist patients and families

      • Analyzes problems from the customers’ point of view.

      • Honors patient/customer/employee confidentiality.

      • Seeks feedback on how to improve performance and offers constructive feedback, as well.

      • Applies learning for improved performance.

      • Presents self professionally & demonstrates professional behavior during interactions with others

      • Strives to understand and value differences in others’ race, nationality, gender, age, background, experience, and style.

      • linical Education

      • Serves as clinical instructor (if student is available)

      • Assists with clinical education of students if not the Primary CI

      • Staff Education: Provides a formal presentation of evidenced-based information (i.e. in-service)

      • Scholarly Activity: Attendance at institutional in-services, staff meetings and/or continuing education programs

      • Professional Presentations: Presents self professionally and communicates appropriate evidence based and accurate technical information to professional groups outside of the department.

  • PATIENT/EMPLOYEE SAFETY ACCOUNTABILITIES

    • Patient Care Providers

      • Participates in Entity and Department wide initiatives for Patient /Employee safety

      • Demonstrates an awareness of patient/ employee safety when carrying out daily responsibilities of their position.

      • Validation of annual competencies required for the position

  • OPERATIONS

    • Essential Accountabilities

      • Therapy Examination

      • Therapy Treatment Planning

      • Therapy Treatment Implementation

      • Applies the Principles of Logic & Scientific Method to the Practice of PT

      • Full compliance with licensure requirements

      • Ethical & Legal Practice Standards

      • Therapy Documentation-

      • Compliance Audits-Total of 2 charts reviewed in a quarter by Site Manager or senior therapist. Done in 2 out of 4 quarters per year.

      • Qualitative Chart Audit-At least 1 done per year

      • Productivity Expectations

      • Health System ID is worn in accordance to GSPP policy

    • Non-essential Accountabilities

      • CEQI (Clinical Effectiveness Quality Improvement)

      • Unit daily operations: Assists Site Manager as directed to support daily operations.

• QUALIFICATIONS

  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
    

    • Education

      • Bachelor's Degree in Physical Therapy required

      • Master's Degree preferred

    • Work Experience

      • 2 years of clinical experience required

    • Licenses / Certifications

      • Physical Therapist license required

      • Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required