Physical Therapist
Orthopedic Physical Therapy Institute · Coeur d'Alene, ID
- Full-time
- Location
- Coeur d'Alene, ID
- Hours
- Full-time
- Posted
- Nov 2, 2022 · 3+ months agoOpen more than a year: employers often keep a posting like this up to collect applications for future openings, so ask whether there's a current one.
- Job ID
- 1843337
About the job
Orthopedic Physical Therapy Institute (OPTI), a busy outpatient orthopedic clinic with four North Idaho locations in Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Hayden and Rathdrum, is hiring a full-time orthopedic physical therapist. The therapist evaluates and treats patients ranging from high school, college and professional athletes to community members working to get back to everyday life, alongside orthopedic surgeons and a same-day orthopedic urgent care.
OPTI is an outpatient orthopedic practice serving North Idaho from four clinics, with direct access to its own same-day orthopedic urgent care.
What you'll do
- Evaluate patients' physical and functional status, along with cognitive, psychological and perceptual ability, and refer them for other care when needed
- Plan and carry out treatment, then plan each patient's discharge
- Teach patients and families about treatment goals and safety, including home exercise programs and compensatory techniques
- Keep evaluations, daily notes and status reports for referral sources accurate and timely, meeting billing and reimbursement requirements
- Manage your own caseload, triage urgent needs and keep the front office coordinator and clinic director informed of your schedule
- Recommend adaptive equipment, adapt techniques for use at home and refer patients to community resources
- Help the clinic grow through referral building, community events and other outreach
- Train and supervise aides where applicable, and take part in team meetings, clinical education and program planning
What you need
- A master's or doctoral degree in physical therapy from a program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education
- A current Idaho physical therapist license
- Current CPR certification
- Continuing education as required by OPTI and the state license
- Ability to meet the clinic's productivity and quality standards
- Basic skill with MS Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook
Preferred
- Experience with electronic documentation software and literature search engines
Schedule
- Full-time
- Extra hours, including evenings or weekends, may occasionally be needed when patient volume calls for it
Benefits
- Mentorship, consultation and continuing education to build skills
- Support for pursuing specialization in orthopedic or sports physical therapy
Posted pay for physical, occupational and speech therapist jobs in Coeur d'Alene & North Idaho
13 other physical, occupational and speech therapist postings in Coeur d'Alene & North Idaho give a pay range, from 7 employers. Their ranges typically start around $45.00 and top out around $56.49 an hour. This job's posted salary works out to $36.06–$57.69 an hour at 2,080 hours a year.
How “typical” is worked out
"Typical" is the middle of those 13 other postings' minimums and of their maximums, leaving this job out. The therapy pay page for Idaho counts every therapy posting in Idaho with a pay range, not only physical, occupational and speech therapist jobs, so its typical range is different: $40.00–$55.00. A posted range isn't what a new hire is paid: where someone starts depends on experience and, at union employers, the step on the pay scale. How we count
About this listing
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