Physical Therapist - Children's Therapy Center, Casual

**Physical Therapist - UPMC Washington's Children Therapy Center**

Join our passionate team at UPMC Washington's Children Therapy Center, where we help children grow stronger through movement and play! We’re seeking a caring and motivated **Physical Therapist** to provide personalized, family-centered care in a fun, supportive environment. If you love working with kids and making a difference, we’d love to meet you!

Responsibilities:

• Communicates patient's status to the referring physician and other health care team members.
• May serves as a clinical instructor for physical therapy students as well as residents and fellows in a specialty area of physical therapy.
• Performs physical therapy assessment, reassessment and treatment and supervises physical therapist assistants in the treatment of pediatric patients referred by a physician to the clinic.
• Develops plan of care including goals and treatment plan in accordance with physician referral, nature of injury/illness and results of physical therapy assessment.
• Modifies or adjusts plan of care based on patient's response to treatment and/or changes in patient's status.
• Rotates through selected treatment areas when necessary to facilitate organizational needs.
• Maintains written documentation for all physical therapy services rendered including documentation of initial assessment, follow-up visits, and discharge summary consistent with department standards.
• Provides verbal and/or written home instructions to patient and/or family members when applicable.
• Schedules patients to achieve and maintain a level of productivity which meets or exceeds the standard established for the facility by the organization while ensuring delivery of quality patient care.

Preferred Qualifications: Pediatric experience of at least one student clinical rotation in a pediatric setting. Preferably at least one year of pediatric experience.

Schedule/Travel: This is a casual position with a flexible schedule to include at least 1 shift per week, or up to 16 hours per week, as needed to cover staff vacations or leaves. Hours of operation are 8:30AM-7:00PM Monday-Thursday and 8:00AM-6:30PM on Fridays; this position can work up to 10 hours per shift. Travel between the offices in McMurray and Washington will be required- some days therapists may need to travel to both offices if needed. 

EDUCATIONAL/KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS:

• Graduate of an accredited program approved by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES & INTERPERSONAL/LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Must possess knowledge and skills required to provide quality customer service.
• Must possess knowledge of normal human growth and development over the lifespan.
• Must be able to read, understand, analyze, and interpret medical record documents.
• Must be skilled in planning/organization, follow up/control, delegation, problem solving, self-development orientation, organizational behaviors/competencies, and stress tolerance.
• Must possess the ability to apply principles of logic and strategic thinking to a wide range of problems, and to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• Must possess effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Must possess the ability to identify referral growth opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with healthcare team, coworkers, supervisors, and all members of the Corporate Management Team.
• Active participation with health care industry professional organizations is preferred.
• May in the course of their job duties be in rooms where medications are stored. No contact with medications is allowed.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• Active license in practicing state required.
• BLS required within 30 days of hire/transfer.
• Physical Therapist (PT)
• Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran