Senior Physical Therapist

Senior Physical Therapist**Job Code**:
30000811

**Basic Function**:
Independent practitioner who performs a wide range of direct and complex physical examination, customizes treatment plans, and administers therapy for specialist caseload requiring advanced critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. Practices within complex and increasingly unpredictable contexts

Functions as a preceptor and role model for new hires and others as required. Acts as resource to staff dealing with patients who present with complex needs. When orientate can manage clinical team with support and guidance. Demonstrates effective collaboration and team behaviors. May participate in research activities.
- Influences: client on caseload, colleague’s, multi/interdisciplinary team. Provides mentorship delegation and supervision of junior staff, support workers, interns and summer students and volunteers. Responsible for own actions, practice according to professional codes JHAH, JCI policies and procedures.

**Scope**:
Practices within John Hopkins Aramco Healthcare Nursing & Clinical Services Department in Dhahran, Al Hasa, Udhailiyah, Ras Tanura and Abqaiq according to professional codes and defined organizational policies and procedures.

The Senior Physical Therapist provides complex professional therapy services within increasingly unpredictable contexts, using developed critical reasoning skills, within defined programs, protocols, policies and procedures. Provides work direction, clinical assistance and/or training to less experienced therapists in routine/predictable job tasks, Physical/Occupational Therapy Assistant interns and summer students. Receives supervision and direction from Clinical lead/manager and collaborates with Advanced Physical Therapist, Senior Advanced Physical Therapist. Work hours are assigned to meet operational needs. Hours may include on call and scheduled overtime

**Principal Contacts**:
**INTERNAL**: Daily with clinical team and support workers to provide clinical support and work direction as required. Daily with manager, Physicians / Surgeons/, nurses and other medical staff members, patient and family members to coordinate the physical therapy and rehabilitation program. Ongoing with current staff and new hires for orientation and clinical support, guidance and integration

**EXTERNAL**:Occasionally with other company employees during outreach activities and hospital surveys or with outside medical professionals.

**Principal Duties**:
Performs all duties of the Associate Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist and acts as resource for complex cases providing support and guidance as required

**ASSESSMENT**:

- Acts as a resource to other staff members during the evaluation goal setting and monitoring of complex patient/family needs
- Assists other staff members in improving their knowledge and skills, giving input when needs are identified
- Assesses the need for suitable staff development program/s in assigned clinical area to ensure effective patient care

**PLANNING**:

- Serves as direct care clinical resource in developing, coordinating and reviewing the patient plan of care
- Providing clinical work direction for clinical team

**IMPLEMENTATION/INTERVENTIONS**:

- Provides total and direct physical therapy service to adult / pediatric patients requiring advanced, skilled and complex interventions with a variety of illnesses, impairments and disabilities.
- Preforms therapy requiring advanced competency skills or training in the expanded therapy role
- Performs complex patient assessment, establishes functional and measurable goals, and designs a treatment plan in collaboration with the patient and family. Acts as resource
- Provides complex intervention in accordance with the established plan of care. Acts as resource
- Assesses the effectiveness of treatment and modifies treatment to achieve goals. Acts as resource to other staff members with complex cases
- Assesses educational needs of the patient, family, or caregiver and provides education and educational material to meet those needs, documenting intervention in the PTR
- Plans for discharge collaborating with inter/multidisciplinary care team
- Facilitates communication with patient, family, caregivers, and members of the multidisciplinary team to promote maximum benefit from care and rehabilitation.
- Provides ongoing assessment, modifies and implements specialist physiotherapy treatments and programs as required. Acts as resource
- Assists clinicians with the more complex patient assessments, therapeutic interventions and care plans
- Acts as resource when discussing complex cases and their progress with the therapy staff, Physician / Surgeon; recommends changes; advises when the patient is ready for discharge from the therapy program.
- Demonstrates proper treatment procedures to therapy staff ward personnel; instructs patients and families in procedures to be continued at home.

**Principal Duties (cont'd)**:

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