Job Title: Physical Therapist
Location: East Brunswick (EB)
Department Name: Physical Therapy-OP
Req #: 0000249808
Status: Salaried
Shift: Day
Pay Range: $98,508.80 - $114,628.80 per year
Pay Transparency:
The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.
The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.
Job Overview:
The Physical Therapist plans and administers physical therapy programs for patients to restore function, relieve pain, and prevent disability following injury or disease within scope of practice.
This role requires splitting time between the East Brunswick and Monmouth locations.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelors, Masters, or Doctoral Degree or higher degree with a major in Physical Therapy from an accredited program
- NJ Physical Therapy License or eligible
- American Heart Association (AHA) BLS Provider Certification
- Tact, initiative and judgment in the performance of duties
- Physical stamina for lifting and therapeutic handling of patients
Preferred:
- Completion of a pediatric affiliation
Certifications and Licenses Required:
- NJ Physical Therapy License or eligible
- American Heart Association (AHA) BLS Provider Certification
Scheduling Requirements & Work Environment:
- Full Time (40 hours/week)
- Work Environment: Therapy suite and Nursing unit
Essential Functions:
- Selects, administers, and interprets assessment tools as designated in competency expectations including: History, Screening, Observations, and Evaluations as appropriated to patients
- Identifies and prioritizes time realistic functional goals for remediation, compensation, adaptation or prevention of deficits
- Selects, utilizes and evaluates the effectiveness of appropriate treatment methods as designated in competency expectations
- Applies principles of activity analysis for grading physical, perceptual cognitive and psychosocial demands to produce an optimal mesh of child's or family's abilities to meet environmental demand
- Communicates effectively with patients, families, & team in oral and written formats in both formal and non-formal situations
- As designated in competency expectations, assists in training others. This may include: Staff, PTAs, Aides, & students
- Takes responsibility for seeking supervision or consultation in relationship to clinical performance
- Actively contributes to improvement plans effectively utilizes feedback
- Meets competency expectations in explaining symptoms, prognosis and functional limitations for a variety of diagnostic groups
- Makes discharge recommendations appropriate to the child & their family in consideration of child's prognosis, role expectations, and knowledge of community resources (as designated in competency expectations)
- Meets minimum annual expected volumes
- Assigns work to and follows up for satisfactory completion of duties of physical therapy assistants, aides, orthotics technician and assists with student training
- Direct contact with patients, families, nursing, therapists and other health and education professionals. May also include community groups and universities
