# Physical Therapist

**Company**: Sanford Health
**Location**: Sioux Falls, SD
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $35.50 - $52.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. You will play a crucial role in our Physical Therapy team, working with patients to help them recover and improve their mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and prevent deformities.

**Job Summary:** Plans, organizes, and delivers physical therapy programs for clients/patients/residents affected by injury or disease.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Evaluate patients recovering from various medical conditions, such as neurological, orthopedic, spinal cord, brain injury, amputation, and other medically complex conditions.

- Develop individualized treatment plans to improve mobility, balance, strength, gait, transfers, endurance, and overall functional independence.

- Utilize therapeutic exercise, gait training, balance activities, wheelchair mobility, stair training, and adaptive equipment to maximize patient outcomes.

- Follow patients throughout their rehabilitation stay, progressing treatment plans as patients achieve functional milestones.

- Collaborate closely with rehabilitation physicians, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, nursing, case management, and other members of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team.

**Requirements:**

- Appropriate education level required in accordance with state licensure.

- Must be licensed in the state(s) of practice as a Physical Therapist.

- When applicable, may require valid driver's license.

- Obtains and subsequently maintains required department-specific competencies and certifications. Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers required or within the first 60 days of employment.

**Benefits:** Sanford Health offers a collaborative, family-friendly department with excellent staff longevity, opportunities for professional growth, and continuous improvement.

**Salary:** $35.50 - $52.00 per hour

## Skills

### Required
- Physical Therapy
- Licensure as a Physical Therapist
- Therapeutic Exercise
- Gait Training
- Balance Activities
- Wheelchair Mobility
- Stair Training
- Adaptive Equipment
- Basic Life Support (BLS)

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