Physical Therapist (PT)

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Shriners Children's is the premier pediatric burn, orthopaedic, spinal cord injury, cleft lip and palate, and pediatric subspecialties medical center. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

Job Overview

The Physical Therapist (PT) provides evaluation and therapy services, including direct patient care, patient/family education and transition of care, in an efficient, age-appropriate, and culturally sensitive manner upon licensed independent practitioner referral.  This newly approved additional position is a Monday-Friday, no holidays/weekends at Shriners Children's New England clinic.  

Springfield Location Details

• Providing pediatric specialty care in western Massachusetts for nearly 100 years
• Families from throughout New England, as well as New York state and beyond, choose Shriners Children's New England for its expertise in orthopedic, neuromuscular, cleft lip and palate and urologic specialty care for children.
• Services include outpatient appointments, surgery, orthotics and prosthetics, radiology, 3D motion analysis, physical, occupational and speech therapies.

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive compliant and safe clinical care demonstrating the philosophy of family centered care, a commitment to the achievement of optimal patient outcomes in alignment with the standards of practice of their professional organization. 
• Works with medical staff and the multidisciplinary team to design and implement individualized plans of care to meet the needs of the pediatric patients and their family.
• Functions as a team member and develops leadership skills through activities such as: mentoring, and providing education to students and other professionals.
• Supports the ongoing development and improvement of the department through participation in special projects, performance improvement and facility committees.
• Responsible for professional growth and development through ongoing education and research in alignment with hospital’s patient care and strategic direction.
• Responsible for maintaining current knowledge in changes related to scope of practice, coding/billing practices, compliant documentation and any other knowledge related to the compliant practice in a revenue cycle environment.

Qualifications

Required:

• Education necessary to obtain License in State of Practice
• Physical Therapy (PT) License in state of practice (required)
• CPR/BLS (required)

Preferred 

• 1 year of Physical Therapy (PT) experience preferred  (new graduates welcome to apply). 
• Pediatric Physical Therapy experience preferred, but nnot required.

Shriners Children’s is an EOE/Drug-Free, Smoke-Free Workplace. 

Shriners Children’s values diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.  This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

In accordance with local and system policies, all SHC employees must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to be eligible for hire.