Physical Therapist - #176904

Position Overview

This position is for a licensed, Physical Therapist looking to join our team providing Inpatient services to the Shreveport area. Specialists Hospital Shreveport offers a competitive benefits package and the opportunity to work with a dynamic group of clinicians dedicated to providing quality care for our patients. Our caseload is primarily orthopedic seeing both chronic and acute conditions as well as providing post-operative care to the spine and extremities. This position is a PRN day shift position.

Essential Job Functions

• Performs physical therapy evaluations, establishes appropriate plans of care, and effectively implements treatments to restore patient to maximum function
• Collaborates well with designated team of PTAs and supervises PT technicians to provide best quality of care for patient
• Maintains accurate paper and electronic record of documentation of services rendered per hospital and state guidelines
• Cultivates relationships with referring physicians and communicates as necessary regarding patient care
• Creates and maintains good patient-therapist rapport to ensure successful therapy experience
• Assists in on-call weekend coverage for inpatient floor (up to 2 weekends per quarter)
  
  
  

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of physical therapy
• Active License to practice physical therapy in Louisiana
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (with AED)
  
  
  

Benefits

• Paid holiday, sick, and vacation after probationary period
• Health, vision, and dental coverage
• Short-term and long-term disability
• 401K
• CEU annual allowance and licensure reimbursement
  
  
  

Specialists Hospital Shreveport is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.