Join Our Team at EmergeOrtho - Raleigh-Durham-Johnson County & Greater Triangle!
EmergeOrtho is seeking a dedicated Physical Therapist specializing in Outpatient Orthopedic Therapy to provide exceptional patient care alongside our skilled Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers (APPs). This position will be one day a week and Saturdays, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. We have multiple locations actively looking for the right professional to enhance our growing team!
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary: $80,000 - $121,000 annually
- Sign-on Bonus of up to $8,000 to reward your skills and dedication
- Comprehensive Benefits Package, including generous CME allowance
Who Should Apply?
Whether you're a new graduate eager to start your career or an experienced provider looking for growth, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Take the next step in your professional journey with EmergeOrtho. Apply today and be part of a dynamic team committed to excellence in orthopedic care!
Qualifications and Experience:
- A degree from an accredited Physical Therapy Program
- Licensed as a Physical Therapist in North Carolina
- Comfortable using email and interacting with Internet applications
- Knowledge of practice management and word processing software
- Current CPR Certification
- Excellent documentation and communication skills
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Practice in functional, prevocational, vocational, and homemaking skills, and activities of daily living
- Consult with patients to learn about their physical condition and symptoms and develop a treatment plan
- Teach patients how to properly use exercise techniques
- Participation in sensorimotor, educational, recreational, and social activities designed to help patients of handicapped persons develop or regain physical or mental functioning or adjust to handicaps
- Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity program consistent with needs and capabilities of individual and to coordinate physical therapy with other therapeutic activities
- Select constructive activities suited to individual’s physical capacity, intelligence level, and interest to upgrade individual to maximum independence, assist in restoration of functions, and aid in adjustment to disability
- Provide stimulation or massage to affected area
- Teach patient skills and techniques required for participation in activities and evaluate patient progress
- Design and construct special equipment for patients and suggest adaptation of patients work-living environment
- Plan, organize, and conduct physical therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate those impaired because of illness, injury, or psychological or developmental problems
- Test and evaluate patient’s physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients
- Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental and physical capabilities
- Evaluate patients progress and prepare reports that detail progress
- Complete and maintain necessary records
- Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy
- Recommend changes in patients work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities
- Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work and school skills and adjust to handicaps
- Design and create, or requisition, special supplies, and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment
- Help patients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills using computer programs
- Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean/ repair tool after therapy session
Other Responsibilities:
- May conduct training programs or participate in training medical and nursing students and other workers in physical therapy techniques and objectives
- Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability
- Conduct research in physical therapy
- Advise on health risks in the workplace and home and on health-related transition to retirement
- Plan program involving activities, such as manual arts and crafts
- Provide patient with assistance in locating and holding jobs
- Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students and nurses and other medical staff
Performs all other tasks and projects assigned by the Director of Therapy
