We’re looking for a Pelvic Health Physical Therapist - Advanced Clinical Specialist. In this position you will plan, evaluate, organize, and implement Physical Therapy (PT) treatment programs in a developmentally and age-appropriate manner for patients ages 0 - adulthood.
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Schedule Options: 3 (8) Hour Shifts OR 2 (10) Hour Shifts (Mondays and Fridays needed)
Job Duties & Responsibilities
• Performs patient care and related activities.
• Completes patient evaluations and reassessments in accordance with hospital and department guidelines.
• Develops an individualized plan of care based upon evaluation/reassessment findings according to hospital and department guidelines.
• In collaboration with patient and family, develops measurable long term and short-term goals as well as monitors outcome of treatment plan.
• Performs patient care and related activities within the scope of their level of training and responsibilities while demonstrating basic competencies and advanced clinical competencies in an area of specialty such as NICU, Special Care Units, serial casting, advanced electrical stim, static splinting, advanced aquatics, sensory integration, NDT, biodex evaluations and/or Lokomat,
• Participates in ongoing communication and collaboration with other members of the patient's interdisciplinary care team. Coordinates treatment plan with all parties involved in the patient's care.
• Monitors patient response to treatment intervention.
• Recommends complex and customized adaptive equipment as needed.
• Recommends termination of treatment when appropriate.
• Meets the productivity/time management expectations.
• Communicates effectively with patients, family, manager, department staff, physicians, and other health care professionals to promote quality care.
• All tasks are characterized by flexibility and fluidity in clinical situations; handles complex problems quickly with little reliance on conscious problem solving or "rules and principles".
• Conclusions are based upon thorough physiologic, psychosocial, and total team perspective.
• Provides clinical support to assigned outpatient clinic or specialty program.
• Provides instruction/education to patients and families/care givers.
• Document information in patient medical record and patient billing.
• Participates in staff and student development.
• Participates in the development of clinical competency programs to better serve our customers; patients, families, physicians, and other health care providers, etc.
• Selects and pursues professional career track; education, research, leadership, or clinical expertise.
Skills & Requirements
• Required bachelor's degree Physical Therapy
• Required PT - Physical Therapist by the State of Texas
• Required 8 years Relevant Clinical Experience
Certifications: Preferred PWCS or PRPC, but open to any of the following:
o BC-WHCS - Board-Certified Women’s Health Clinical Specialist by The American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS)
o BC-SCS - Board-Certified Sports Clinical Specialist by The American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS)
o OMPTF - Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapist Fellowship by the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy (AAMOPT)
o BC-OrthoCS - Board-Certified Orthopedics Clinical Specialist by The American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS)
o PRPC - Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification by the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute
o TPS-ISPI - Therapeutic Pain Specialist - International Spine & Pain Institute by the International Spine & Pain Institute (ISPI)
Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women is a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility and one of a select few hospitals nationwide that provides women, mothers and babies with a full continuum of high-quality, expert health care. Offering a full spectrum of maternal and fetal medicine services, including an array of fetal diagnostic procedures and highly specialized fetal surgeries, the Pavilion for Women is connected to Texas Children’s Hospital via a two-story circular sky bridge to enhance patient care by providing physicians, staff and patient families with rapid access to other pediatric subspecialists. Three private OB/GYN practices, The Family Fertility Center, The Menopause Center and The Women’s Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry are all housed here. Additionally, we also recently opened a community-based OB/GYN practice in Pearland.
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