Physical Therapist at Nuvance Health in Poughkeepsie, New York

Job Description:

Health Quest and Western Connecticut Health Network have combined to form a new nonprofit health system. The name for the new health system will be Nuvance Health. The new health system was created to provide communities across New York’s Hudson Valley and western Connecticut with more convenient, accessible and affordable care.

Nuvance Health has a network of convenient hospital and outpatient locations — Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Norwalk Hospital and Sharon Hospital in Connecticut, and Northern Dutchess Hospital, Putnam Hospital Center and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in New York — plus multiple primary and specialty care physician practices locations, including The Heart Center, a leading provider of cardiology care. Non-acute care is offered through various affiliates,

Responsibilities:

1. Performs physical therapy assessment including functional limitations, rooms, capabilities, mobility status, endurance status, ADL status.

2. Identifies patient and family needs for other home health services

3. Provides services that are ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care.

4. Provides appropriate treatment.

5. Records on a visit basis, all evaluation data, treatments and client's response to therapy, provides client's discharge planning.

6. Participates in case management conferences with team members to coordinate physical therapy and total plan of care.

7. Provides counseling and education to patients, family and other health care personnel

Required:

Bachelor’s degree

Minimum Experience: One (1) year

Current Physical Therapist license

Work Type: Per Diem

Location: Ulster County, NY

Benefits:

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Mileage Reimbursement

• Self-Autonomy

• Generous PTO provided

• Healthcare, Dental, 401k, etc.

Per-Visit Rate - $65.00 Per Visit, $90.00 Evaluation Visits

Working conditions:

Essential:

* Significant manual skills / motor coord & finger dexterity

* Significant occupational risk

* Some exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.

EOE, including disability/vets.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in an interview, please contact Human Resources at 203-739-7330 (for reasonable accommodation requests only). Please provide all information requested to assure that you are considered for current or future opportunities.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in an interview, please contact Human Resources at 203-739-7330 (for reasonable accommodation requests only). Please provide all information requested to assure that you are considered for current or future opportunities.