Physical Therapist (PT) – Outpatient Orthopedics

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Organization

Regional PT

Job Summary

JOB SUMMARY Provides physical therapy services to patients who have impairments, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function and health status resulting from injury, disease or other causes under occasional guidance. Actively collaborates with the health care/educational team to meet patient care, outcomes and system improvement objectives.

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Physical Therapist (PT) – Outpatient Orthopedics

Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Therapy Franklin Edward Curd 2179 Edward Curd Lane, Franklin, TN 37067 Full-Time | Monday–Friday | 8:00 AM – 4:40 PM No Weekends | No Holidays | Benefits Day One

About the Role

Are you a Physical Therapist looking for an outpatient orthopedic opportunity where you can focus on quality patient care rather than productivity pressure? Vanderbilt Health is seeking a compassionate and motivated Outpatient Orthopedic Physical Therapist to join our team at Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Therapy Franklin Edward Curd.

This clinic offers a unique combination of a small, team-oriented environment and the resources of a nationally recognized healthcare organization. You'll work alongside two experienced Physical Therapists, providing individualized, evidence-based orthopedic care with 30-minute one-on-one treatment sessions, dedicated documentation time, and manageable caseloads.

Whether you're an experienced outpatient PT or a newer graduate looking to build your orthopedic skills, we'd love to hear from you.

Why Join Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Therapy Franklin Edward Curd?

At Vanderbilt Health, we understand that exceptional patient outcomes start with exceptional clinicians.

Why Vanderbilt Health? • Day-One Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, PTO, and retirement
• Competitive retirement savings options
• Generous paid time off
• Tuition assistance and continuing education support
• Employee wellness resources
• Career growth opportunities across Vanderbilt Health
• Access to one of the region's leading healthcare systems

Position Summary

The Physical Therapist provides skilled physical therapy services to patients experiencing impairments, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function resulting from injury, disease, surgery, or other conditions. The therapist collaborates with patients, physicians, and interdisciplinary team members to develop and implement individualized treatment plans that help patients achieve their goals and maximize functional outcomes.

• Key Responsibilities
• Perform comprehensive physical therapy evaluations and assessments
• Develop individualized treatment plans and functional goals
• Implement evidence-based orthopedic rehabilitation interventions
• Monitor progress and modify treatment plans as appropriate
• Collaborate with physicians and multidisciplinary healthcare teams
• Educate patients and families regarding diagnosis, recovery, and self-management strategies
• Promote successful return to daily activities, work, recreation, and community participation
• Document evaluations, progress notes, treatments, and outcomes accurately and timely within Epic
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and patient outcome tracking
• Supervise support personnel, students, and other designated staff as appropriate

Qualifications

• Required
• Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy program
• Current or eligible Tennessee Physical Therapist licensure
• Strong communication and patient-centered care skills
• Commitment to evidence-based practice and clinical excellence
• Outpatient rehabilitation experience preferred
• Strong communication, clinical reasoning, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills
• Commitment to patient-centered care and evidence-based practice

• Key responsibilities
• Analyzes comprehensive information from formal and informal assessment that is pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine a rehabilitation treatment diagnosis.
• Collaborates with stakeholders in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the rehabilitation continuum.
• Applies appropriate, evidence-based interventions to ensure effective outcomes and re-evaluates performance to assess patient's progress towards goals.
• Employs strategies to promote successful return to home, community, and school/vocational environments.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES • Treatment Planning & Goal Setting (Novice)

• Demonstrates sufficient proficiency in developing a plan of care that incorporates treatment interventions focused on meeting objective goals. Develops and documents patient focused short and long term goals that are functional and measurable. Identifies the need for and referral to other services, as needed.
• Rehabilitation
• Therapist
• Patient
• Evaluation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in evaluating patients with physical deficits including impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function by obtaining information pertinent to the assessment and administering and scoring standardized tests and objective measures of deficit areas. Selects appropriate measures and performs a functional assessment to document patient's status requiring skilled therapy. Interprets the results of the assessment and their significance to the patient, family, referring physician and other members of the health care team.
• Treatment
• Implementation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in providing treatment consistent with physician prescription and established plan of care. Able to modify treatment plan as needed to demonstrate provision of skilled therapy services including progression of treatment throughout course of care, and revision of treatment interventions of goals not met. May supervise and direct certified athletic trainers (PT only), physical therapist / occupational therapist assistants, technicians and volunteers and students. Selects and follows correct protocol for care and utilize evidence based treatments. Has completed at least one year of clinical experience in treatment implementation.
• Rehab
• Therapist
• Patient
• Documentation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in documentation practices. Documents in the appropriate templates and utilizes only approved abbreviations within patient documentation. Meets institutional standards for quality and timeliness of documentation.
• Physical/Occupational
• Therapist
• Patient
• Education (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in communicating functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process. Considers the communication needs/level of understanding of audience and may share appropriate information/literature. May supervise, educate and train students from professional programs of physical therapy, occupational therapy and athletic training.

Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings.

These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health’s reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid-South.

Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.

Core Accountabilities

Organizational Impact

Core Capabilities

Supporting Colleagues

• -
• Develops
• Self and
• Others: Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance e and gain knowledge in new areas.-
• Builds and
• Maintains
• Relationships: Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.-
• Communicates
• Effectively: Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences.
• Delivering
• Excellent
• Services:-
• Serves
• Others with
• Compassion: Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them.-
• Solves
• Complex
• Problems: Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.-
• Offers
• Meaningful
• Advice and
• Support: Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness.
• Ensuring
• High
• Quality:
• Performs
• Excellent
• Work: Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.-
• Ensures
• Continuous
• Improvement: Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them. -
• Fulfills
• Safety and
• Regulatory
• Requirements: Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring.
• Managing
• Resources
• Effectively: -
• Demonstrates
• Accountability: Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.-
• Stewards
• Organizational
• Resources: Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.-
• Makes
• Data
• Driven
• Decisions: Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities.

Position Qualifications

Responsibilities

Certifications

LIC-Physical Therapy License - Tennessee

Work Experience

Relevant Work Experience

Experience Level: 1 year

Education

Bachelor's

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within Vanderbilt Health, supported by a comprehensive benefits package which may include health, disability, retirement and/or wellness offerings to enhance your well-being and professional growth.

Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.