Description
Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are cultivating a WARP Multidisciplinary Clinic and looking to staff Physical Therapists to provide their services to veterans in our Rockville, MD headquarters. The Physical Therapist is expected to perform the following:
- Complete comprehensive examinations addressing strength, range of motion, balance, gait, pain, endurance, transfers and functional mobility.
- Establish measurable, patient-centered plans of care.
- Provide therapeutic exercise, neuromuscular re-education, gait training, balance treatment, manual interventions and functional-mobility training.
- Assess fall risk and implement fall-prevention interventions.
- Recommend walkers, wheelchairs, mobility devices and home-safety modifications.
- Participate in prosthetic and orthotic evaluation, fitting, training and follow-up.
- Provide pre-prosthetic conditioning and post-prosthetic gait training.
- Educate patients and caregivers on home programs, safe transfers and injury prevention.
- Coordinate treatment with OT, SLP, kinesiotherapy, recreation therapy, ABA and behavioral-health personnel.
- Supervise physical therapist assistants and students where authorized.
- Document medical necessity, progress and discharge outcomes.
- Respond appropriately to changes in medical status during treatment.
Requirements
Minimum qualifications
- Graduate of a CAPTE-accredited physical-therapy program.
- Doctor of Physical Therapy or other degree meeting current licensure standards.
- Active, unrestricted Maryland physical-therapist license.
- Current BLS certification.
- Ability to perform physical assistance, transfers and equipment setup safely.
Maryland licenses and regulates physical therapists through the Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.
Preferred qualifications
- Two years of outpatient rehabilitation experience.
- Experience with stroke, TBI, limb loss, chronic pain, geriatrics, pediatrics or adaptive sports.
- Vestibular, neurological, pelvic-health or orthopedic specialty training.
- Experience treating Veterans or patients with complex psychosocial needs.
Performance indicators
- Functional-goal attainment.
- Improvement in standardized outcome scores.
- Falls and safety-event rate.
- Visit utilization and plan-of-care completion.
- Documentation timeliness and authorization compliance.
- Patient experience and successful community transition.
Salary Description
$42.65/hr to $59/hr