Status: Full Time, 40 hrs. per week 

Shift: 8:00am - 4:30pm

Sign on bonus: $10,000

Location | Department: Chelsea Retirement Community | Kresge Rehab | Memory Care & Assisted Living 

Overview:

The Physical Therapist evaluates, assesses, plans, organizes, and administers rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury, in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern long-term care facilities to assure the highest quality of resident care and positive relationships among the community, team members, residents and families. 

What you'll do:

• Performs and documents an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention. 
• Plans, prepares, or carries out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients. 
• Records prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enters information into computer. 
• Identifies and documents goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation. 
• Administers manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling. 
• Evaluates effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit. 
• Tests and measures patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data. 
• Instructs patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
• Confers with the patient, medical practitioners, or other appropriate parties to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program. 
• Reviews physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required. 
• Complies with professional, ethical, and legal standards. 
• Adequate to perform job duties in person and over the phone. 
• Must be able to communicate clearly to patients in person and over the phone.
• Visual acuity adequate to perform job duties, including visual examination of patient and reading information from printed sources and computer screens 
• Ability to lift, lower, push, pull, and retrieve objects weighing a minimum of 30 pounds of medical supplies and equipment and the transferring and repositioning of patients. Reasonable assistance may be requested when lifting, pushing, and/or pulling are undertaken which exceeds these minimum requirements. Must be able to withstand prolonged or considerable walking, standing, reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling or crouching. 
• The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.

What it takes:

• Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy program 
• At least 2 years' experience as a physical therapist
• Current Physical Therapist state license 
• Excellent verbal and written communication

Why Brio living Services?

• Growth Opportunities | School Scholarship Program
• Wellness Program & Reimbursement| Medical & Dental Insurance for Full-time Team Members| Retirement Savings Plan 
• Generous Paid Off | 6 Paid Holidays | 2 Floating Holidays
• Team Member Referral bonus program
• Annual Increases

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