# Physical Therapist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Murray, Utah
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $43.09 - $66.47
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This Physical Therapist role at Intermountain Health's Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, involves screening, testing, evaluating, diagnosing, and treating injuries, diseases, and disabilities using physical therapy procedures and modalities.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Providing skilled physical therapy services, staying updated on standard practices for different patient groups

- Conducting evaluations and treatments according to professional standards (APTA), considering diagnosis, history, and physician referrals, and developing care plans with specific goals based on patient assessments

- Meeting established productivity standards for the department or service line

- Keeping thorough and timely patient records as required by regulations and facility policies

- Communicating effectively with patients, families, physicians, and healthcare providers about patient needs and goals

- Managing all aspects of patient care and education, including supervising assistants, aides, office staff, and students to ensure high-quality care

- Participating in and promoting continuing education opportunities for self and staff

- Engaging in quality improvement processes, including safe equipment use, improving clinical outcomes, patient access, and patient experience

- Participating in patient care conferences, interdisciplinary meetings, staff meetings, and necessary professional and work groups

- Contributing to program development and marketing strategies to grow the physical therapy program and achieve department goals.

The role requires:

- Current Physical Therapist license in the state of practice

- Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers

- Basic computer skills

- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

- Current driver's license, reliable transportation, and acceptable driving record.

In terms of physical demands, the role requires:

- Ongoing need to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies

- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require verbal communication as well as hearing and understanding spoken information

- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy

- Expected to lift and utilise full range of movement to transfer patients

- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment.

The hourly range for this position is $43.09 - $66.47.

Intermountain Health offers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.

## Skills

### Required
- Quality Improvement
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Patient Engagement
- Critical Thinking
- Time Management
- Care Planning
- Compassion

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