Physical Therapist

Skill Sprout is seeking a Physical Therapist to provide evaluation and direct intervention to clients with physical disabilities and delays. The successful candidate will deliver professional and clinical expertise and work collaboratively with a high-performance management team.

Requirements

• Evaluates and treats clients with a wide variety of needs
• Utilizes the parent's priorities for treatment to establish measurable and functional goals
• Consults to administrative staff on best practices and current efficacy based treatment methodologies for physical therapists
• Assists families in obtaining necessary equipment for mobilization or ambulation as needed through composing letters of medical necessity, and coordinating with physician and vendors
• Assist Director of Rehabilitation in client and staff recruitment, provider outreach and general marketing efforts for the Rehab program and Skill Sprout as a whole
• Develops and implements trainings for rehabilitation staff as needed to support internal referrals and trans-disciplinary care
• Provides effective home exercise programming and parent education as needed
• Utilizes principles of positive reinforcement and basic behavioral interventions to support client performance and learning.
• Acts as mentor to therapists who are new to the field and/or pediatrics within the company
• Collaborate with Director of Rehabilitation to develop new programs for developing programming related to physical therapy for the company.
• Consult with other clinicians inside and outside of Skill Sprout to enhance continuity of care for clients regularly and as needed