Physical Therapist - Onsite

Job Summary

The goal of the position is to provide worksite injury prevention services and promote health improvement for our client's employees. Previous experience with occupational health, wellness and prevention services, and industrial ergonomics is a plus! Onsite occupational health offers many advantages including the opportunity to develop strong relationships with the employees, teach them to avoid injuries, and to coach them to live healthier lives. You will work directly with a multi-disciplinary team of nurses, medical assistants, and medical personnel as well as with our client's Health and Safety Leader to create a healthier and safer workforce.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage and prevent job-related musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace.
• Provide first aid care/emergency care and recommend treatment or referrals to a medical facility, when necessary.
• Assist with safety initiatives and communicate regularly with safety personnel regarding injury prevention and management.
• Create an environment of trust and caring, which allows workers to take responsibility to reduce or eliminate actions or behaviors under their control that contribute to injury and illness.
• Drive success in prevention by analyzing the job for ergonomics-related risk factors and working with the employer to create workplace improvements.

Responsibilities Details

• Ensures quality and patient safety through the execution of therapy model across markets and service lines.
• Manages key clinical metrics and holds therapists accountable for % MS Referred, Visits per Case, % Therapy SDE, % Seen, TOP and other disability management and referral pattern metrics delivered by Clinical Analytics.
• Monitors clinical outcomes and intervenes in outlier cases.
• Maintains clinical competence in patient care and EMR/PM systems which allows to coach and fill in as needed, and identify need for Coding and EMR specialists intervention for field re-training.
• Participates in appropriate risk management activities.
• Drives patient and client experience and satisfaction metrics such as TAT, NPS, NPER, ENPS.
• Mentors therapists on Perfect PT visit and service delivery.
• Works collaboratively with medical and operations to ensure appropriate support and work flows to foster caring environment for treatment.
• Maintains and leverages relationships with employers, payers, referral sources, networks, local communities, etc. to drive market growth while responding to requests within 24 hours.
• Mentors and coaches therapists regarding the therapy model, outcomes, business metrics, patient/client satisfaction and center management.
• Develops colleague success through all aspects of the talent life cycle for therapy within the region including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, orientation, mentoring/development, engagement, retention, performance management and succession planning.
• Ensures patient care delivery teams are functioning at an optimal level.
• Fosters an environment of collaboration, professionalism, patient/colleague safety, quality care, continuous improvement and reward and recognition.
• Leads and promotes collaboration across multiple disciplines and teams to achieve clinical and business outcomes.
• Develops and executes action plans to address gaps in financial performance and growth across service lines to achieve the annual business plan.
• Plans and executes strategies as well as new clinical and business processes within the region.
• Manages therapy staffing and personnel costs.
• Manages and monitors key clinical metrics including efficiencies, cost per encounter, coding and documentation, and others, while understanding the relationship between these and financial outcomes.

Scope Measures

• Direct reports: Varies
• Budget responsibility: Yes

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

Clinical environment