Careers
Traveling Physical Therapist
(travels among our 3 clinics)
General Description
The primary responsibilities of this position are:
- Patient care and documentation.
- Directing the daily administrative operations of the clinic, which includes supervision and utilization of support staff.
- Marketing.
- Assuring that Clinical Benchmarks are attained and maintained.
Qualifications
It is preferred that this individual holds at least a bachelor's degree in physical therapy and have prior management experience. In addition, this individual must have strong leadership, marketing, computer, and customer service skills. A background in the area of coding and medical billing is also highly recommended.
- Communication/Customer Service:
- Greets all patients' will a big smile and hello.
- Handles incoming calls with superior customer service.
- Maintains a patient satisfaction system and reviews feedback, generates report, and action plan on a monthly basis. (See customer satisfaction questionnaire)
- Communicates with fellow staff members, physicians, third party payors, case managers, attorneys, and patients in positive, upbeat, efficient, and effective manner.
- Evaluation and Treatment:
- Therapist accommodates for walk-over patients 100% of the time.
- All patients will be scheduled within 24 hours of their initial call.
- Perform an average of at least 1-2 new evaluations per day.
- Responsible for treating an average of 10-15 patients per day.
- Responsible for re-evaluating each patient and updating goals at least every 30 days.
- Treat patients according to evidence based medicine.
- Documentation:
- Initial evaluations must be completed and a plan of care sent to the referral within 24 hours from the time the initial evaluation.
- Daily notes and charge tickets are to be completed and turned into the Billing Manager by the end of each day or before 8:30 AM next day.
- A Discharge Summary must be completed within 24 hours of the discharge.
- Patients not returning to physical therapy must be discharged no later than two weeks following their last visit.
- Quarterly chart review scores must exceed 85%, and maintains documentation of scores. (see chart review grading sheet)
- Administrative Duties:
- Monitors and assists in maintaining a no show call and cancel rate of 12% or less.
- Monitors and assists in maintaining clinical bench marks established at the outset of each year. Maintains (in conjunction with office manager) a spread sheet on a daily basis of vital clinical statistics to include:
- New evals – 21/month or 1-2 day
- Actual visits 210/month
- Patients visits per day – 10-15/day
- No show call and cancel rate – Less than or equal to 12%
- Walk-overs
- Physician referrals
- Prepares an agenda and runs 1 staff meetings per month. (Maintains documentation of meetings)
- Inventories and orders supplies necessary to run the clinic. All orders will be reviewed by CEO that exceed $100.00. Any more than two orders in a month must also be reviewed by the CEO. Perform these duties in conjunction with Office Manager.
- Participates in monthly clinical director meeting to review clinic benchmarks and other related issues. (see template for directors meeting)
- Reviews 1-2 policies from policy and procedure manual per staff meeting.
- Directs and grades the chart review process on a quarterly basis.
- Evaluates in conjunction with CEO the support staff on a yearly basis.
- Participates in the yearly clinic budgeting process.
- Maintains appropriate clinical staff and assists in training and mentoring.
- Professional Duties and Growth:
- Maintains a current PT license in KY.
- Maintains current AIDS training required for KY licensure.
- Maintains CPR certification.
- Maintains an updated resume at all times.
- Observes universal precautions at all times.
- Attends one professional meeting per year. (APTA/KPTA)
- Attends one continuing education course per year.
- Maintains a contract with a local university to take PT or PTA students on regular basis.
- Technology Skills:
- Operates windows based software programs to include Microsoft Word, Excel, and electronic documentation/scheduling systems.
- Efficiently and effectively gains access to the Internet for information retrieval or research.
- Able to bring up, back up, and shut down all computer systems on a daily basis.
- Stays abreast of current technological trends that impact the medical profession and seeks training when appropriate.
- Marketing Functions:
- Markets the general public whenever possible.
- Two community services acts are carried out annually.
- A minimum of 5 marketing contacts must be made per month and documented on monthly clinical directors report.
- A quarterly marketing plan must be developed, carried out, and reviewed with CEO on a quarterly basis.
- Physical Demands/ Work Environment:
This job requires walking, standing, squatting, overhead activities, lifting and carrying. Carrying on occasion may be up to 100+ pounds. Activities such as walking, sitting, working at a computer, talking on the telephone and reaching are activities that are constantly performed on this job. The work environment is predominantly indoors in a well-lit, ventilated area free of hazardous materials. Noise levels are minimal. A potential hazard is prolonged exposure to a computer terminal.
Additional Information/Benefits
Open 5 days a week some days 8:00-5:00pm, others 9:00-6:00pm.
Benefits: Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, Dental Insurance








