Cottage Health·Santa Barbara, California
Responsible for implementing and modifying prevention, wellness, and medically prescribed physical therapy for inpatients and outpatients. The role involves planning individual care programs consistent with APTA and California Board of Physical Therapy standards.
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital seeks a Physical Therapist II for their Outpatient department responsible for interpreting, organizing, applying and modifying as necessary prevention and wellness strategies and medically prescribed physical therapy to inpatients and/or outpatients. The Physical Therapist II plans and implements programs to meet individual needs and provides patient care consistent with the Scope of Practice Standards and Code of Ethics of the American Physical Therapy Association, and the California Board of Physical Therapy. Responsibilities include:
Leader in applying the Cottage Health (CH) Values of excellence, integrity, and compassion in patient care. A Level II clinician provides care in a skilled and effective manner, utilizing learned technical, interpersonal, and critical thinking skills.
Competency skills include the ability to provide care in a safe environment utilizing appropriate communication with sensitivity to special populations. This includes patients with diverse cultural backgrounds, age, developmental issues and physical impairments.
All job qualifications listed indicate the minimum level necessary to perform this job proficiently.
• Minimum: Graduation from an accredited school of Physical Therapy (Master’s Degree, or Bachelor’s Degree with equivalent experience).
• Minimum: Knowledge of physical therapy techniques and modalities. Knowledge of body mechanics, including procedure for handling and moving patients. Basic computer skills for chart review and documentation in electronic medical record.
• Minimum: Required 6 months of work as a therapist.
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