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General Information
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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Work Schedule
10-hour day shifts, 4x per week; Shift varies; 8:00 A.M.- 7:00 P.M
Posted Date
11/12/2024
Salary Range : $61.05 - 73.99 Hourly
Employment Type
4 - Staff: Limited
Duration
5 months
Job #
20535
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
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Join UCLA Health and provide exceptional physical therapy services to patients with orthopedic diagnoses in a dynamic clinical environment. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, patient-centered care through comprehensive evaluations, individualized treatment planning, and evidence-based interventions designed to optimize patient outcomes and functional recovery.
Key responsibilities include conducting patient assessments, providing physical therapy treatments, completing accurate and timely documentation, and maintaining established productivity standards, including participation in special assignments as needed. Patient care is the primary focus of this position unless otherwise assigned. The selected candidate may be required to rotate among clinical practice areas and participate in holiday coverage based on departmental needs.
Salary Range: $61.05 - $73.99 per hour
This position may have the opportunity to convert to a career position
Job Qualifications
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Licensure as a California Physical Therapist and current CPR certification
More than 2 years of licensed PT experience qualifies for PT 2 title.
Ability to safely perform repetitive bending, stooping, sitting, squatting, walking, standing during 8-10 hr. day. Normal duties involve lifting (up to 35 pounds without equipment), transferring patients, and pushing wheelchairs up to 500 feet
Demonstrates knowledge of etiology, course, prognosis, and manifestations of a wide variety of disease processes
Demonstrates ability to establish an appropriate treatment plan, select appropriate treatment techniques, assess the results based upon synthesis of all available information, and the patients' functional goals, with changes in the plan and timely discharge as indicated
Ability to perform a wide variety of treatment techniques, consistently and accurately
Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal) with patients, caregivers, referring practitioners, peers, management and other health care practitioners
As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.
Worksite address
los angeles, CA, 90079, US
Who can apply
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