| Job Description: |
Kaiser Permanente Continuing Care Services provides compassionate care to elderly, disabled, and terminally ill patients.
If you are looking for a career that allows you to have a personal, hands-on relationship with your patients in an environment that supports a high degree of autonomy and independence, consider opportunities with Kaiser Permanente, Continuing Care Services.
Job Purpose:
The physical therapist provides home care services to Kaiser Permanente patients in community based and facility settings. This position may provide therapy services to patients in the home health, hospice, home infusion, palliative care, or other programs under the direction of the patient’s physician(s) to provide quality health care outcomes and facilitate the achievement of maximum independence of the patient utilizing health care resources within Kaiser Permanente and the community. This care is provided through coordinating the delivery of high quality, cost-effective skilled, rehabilitative or palliative care as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Required license, registration, certification or professional affiliation:
- Licensed in Oregon and Washington. Requires license in primary state (Oregon or Washington) prior to first day of employment. Application for licensure in secondary state must be made within six (6) weeks of start date.
- Licenses in both states required within six (6) months of hire.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Basic Life Support CPR card for Health Care Provider. Valid card must be obtained prior to patient contact and within two weeks of hire.
Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- One year physical therapy experience.
- Bachelor of science in physical therapy or a certificate or master’s degree in physical therapy.
- Graduation from a physical therapy program approved by the American Physical Therapy Association or the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association in collaboration with the American Physical Therapy Association.
- Able to adapt quality physical therapy and rehabilitation into a patient’s home setting.
- Must be able to safely assist patients with mobility and transfers in the home setting.
- Experience as an interdisciplinary team member.
- Demonstrates competency in the use of physical therapy modalities and equipment in the home care setting.
- Demonstrates effective interpersonal communication.
- Able to prioritize patient needs to achieve attainable treatment goals.
- Thorough knowledge of teaching/learning principles.
- Working knowledge of interdisciplinary care coordination.
- Able to learn to operate a laptop computer to perform clinical documentation.
- Keyboarding or typing skills
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Working knowledge of the managed care industry.
- Knowledge of Medicare regulations/requirements.
- Working knowledge of palliative care for the terminally ill patient.
- Knowledgeable of the care for the chronically ill and frail elderly.
- Excellent time management, problem solving and customer service skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to work autonomously and manage their caseload.
- Operational knowledge of computerized clinical documentation and office application systems including the use of laptop/notebook computers.
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