# Physical Therapist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Ogden, Utah
**Salary**: $43.09 - $66.47 per hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This Physical Therapist role at McKay-Dee Surgical Center in Ogden, Utah, involves screening, testing, evaluating, diagnosing, and treating injuries, diseases, and disabilities using physical therapy procedures and modalities. You will consult, educate, and train patients, families, and caregivers, and collaborate with care teams to deliver quality, patient-centred care.

**Essential Functions:**

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

- Conduct evaluations and treatments according to professional standards (APTA), considering diagnosis, history, and physician referrals

- Develop care plans with specific goals based on patient assessments

- Meet established productivity standards for the department or service line

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

- Complete patient billing accurately and promptly

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

- Manage all aspects of patient care and education, including supervising assistants, aides, office staff, and students

- Participate in and promote continuing education opportunities for self and staff

- Engage in quality improvement processes, including safe equipment use and improving clinical outcomes

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

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

**Requirements:**

- Current Physical Therapist license in states where you work

- Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers

- Basic Computer skills

- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

- Possess skill sets and experience with target population of job setting

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

**Physical Requirements:**

- Ongoing need for employee 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 employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand 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

**Benefits:**

- Generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness

**Salary:** $43.09 - $66.47 per hour

## Skills

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

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