Physical Therapist

About Us

Excelsia Injury Care provides management services to a network of healthcare companies, supporting them in delivering comprehensive rehabilitation, diagnostic, surgical, and pain management services for individuals affected by post-traumatic neuro-musculoskeletal injuries. With 95 locations across Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Virginia, we ensure accessible, high-quality care tailored to each patient’s unique needs. Our providers are leaders in personal injury and workers’ compensation care, with a proven track record of helping patients recover and reach their maximum recovery potential.

Our mission is to restore quality of life through patient-centric care, supporting those injured in motor vehicle or work-related accidents. We take an interdisciplinary approach, ensuring patients receive coordinated care from evaluation through treatment, with the goal of achieving optimal recovery outcomes.

Founded on the values of respect and trustworthiness, we are committed to delivering services that adhere to the highest legal, regulatory, and ethical standards. As responsible corporate citizens, we integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into our business practices, ensuring that we positively impact the healthcare companies we serve, our employees, and the communities we reach.

Basic Summary of Position:

The Physical Therapist may treat patients only under the guidelines of the state practice act. The Physical Therapist may perform physical therapy procedures and related tasks within the guidelines of their training to include but not necessarily be limited to: performing examination, evaluation, assessment, treatment, re-evaluation, update, and discharge evaluations and continued reassessment of patients with various conditions and diagnosis. Perform all tasks associated with the above including documenting the medical record, superbill, and updating relevant parties in patient care, while managing your caseload and ensuring patient compliance with attendance and program levels. The physical therapist must ensure that all treatment guidelines are followed and provide supervision of physical therapist assistants and ancillary staff as allowed by governing laws/regulations to ensure optimal patient care. The physical therapist is responsible for reviewing the physician’s referral, perform various tests and measurements in order to evaluate the patient’s condition then design, document and carry-out the appropriate treatments which may include use of various treatment modalities, and manual, motor, strength, neuro, sensory, functional, cardio-respiratory, techniques; as well as instruct, motivate, and assist patient to perform various activities including ambulation, ADL, and use in assistive devices, orthotics & prosthetics. Orients, instructs, and directs work activities of assistants, aides, and students. May plan for further program development, carry-out in-services, lectures, presentations, research, and author various articles or other works. Individual may be responsible for participating in health fairs or other similar events as well as providing clinical affiliation training for student programs. Must maintain appropriate CEU’s for licensure and file all paperwork in a timely fashion for licensure renewal.

Essential Functions

• Maintain treatment responsibilities
• Utilize all treatment modalities/techniques
• Ensure the patient is scheduled
• Be aware of your treatment schedule
• Anticipate evals, re-evals, d/c evals.
• Prioritize tasks
• Prepare for the following day
• Adjust to changes in the schedule
• Be organized
• Document effectively all treatment
• Document patient subjective info
• Have notes completed the day of treatment
• Introduce yourself to the patient
• Explain the importance of patient attendance
• Communicate with colleagues
• Utilize a comprehensive treatment approach
• Monitor patient progress
• Maintain practice within state guidelines
• Complete exercise sheets
• Confirm tx interventions
• Maintain timely re-evals
• Communicate with all individuals involved in patient care
• Elicit advice from colleagues
• Ensure current prescription for tx
• Focus on clinical care
• Reduce interruption during tx
• Share clinical techniques with other professionals
• Maintain all chart components
• Insure intake documents are complete
• Make the patient feel comfortable
• Maintain CEU units as needed
• Maintain current state license
• Be committed to patient education
• Instruct in HEP
• Ensure accurate clinical documentation
• Professional at all times
• Reliability
• Arrive at work on time
• Follow time-off policy
• Follow all company policies
• Assist other professionals as needed
• Carry a full caseload
• Welcome constructive criticism
• Perform in-services to staff
• Attend marketing functions as needed
• Assist in health fairs
• Attend staff meetings
• Follow direction of all supervisors
• Supervise PTA, aides, other clinical staff
• Other duties as assigned

Skills and Abilities

• Strong customer orientation
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (both oral and written) skills
• Strong team player
• Commitment to company values
• Action oriented
• Approachability
• Career ambition
• Comfort around higher management
• Compassion
• Composure
• Conflict management
• Creativity
• Integrity and trust
• Priority setting
• Problem solving
• Time management
• Timely decision making
• The ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
• Ability to type 40 words per minute
• Bi-lingual skills will be preferred in certain clinic locations

Minimum Requirements

• Graduated from an A.P.T.A. accredited physical therapy program (with a minimal of a Bachelor’s Degree) and be eligible for state board examination
• Individual must pass the licensing exam in order to continue practice beyond a temporary license
• Must maintain all requirements for state licensure.

Working Conditions

• Hours Required: As needed to complete the job responsibilities. Overtime to be approved by management

Physical/Mental Requirements

Sitting, standing, walking, reaching above shoulder length, working with body bent over at waist, working in kneeling position, climbing stairs, climbing ladders, working with arms extended at shoulder length, lifting maximum of 20 lbs.

Diversity Statement

Excelsia Injury Care is an equal opportunity employer. We commit to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, pregnancy or related medical conditions, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic predisposition, marital, civil union or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local laws.