Cook Childrens Health Care System is seeking a Physical Therapist for a job in Fort Worth, Texas.

Job Description Requirements

• Specialty: Physical Therapist
• Discipline: Therapy
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: Ongoing
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours
• Employment Type: Staff

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Summary:

The physical therapist will work in the Research department in the Upper Extremity Motion Analysis Lab, which evaluates patients and provides clinical data to help providers enhance treatment plans. This individual will collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary team that includes physicians, therapists, biomechanists, and research scientists in our newly established motion capture laboratory. This lab features the latest 3D marker-based and markerless sensor technology, along with electromyography evaluation. Their role will involve studying, analyzing, and improving patient movement and function.

This position will plan, evaluate, organize, and implement physical therapy treatment programs in a developmentally appropriate manner for our pediatric patients facing various issues and conditions affecting their upper extremities. The physical therapist will deliver competent and skilled care tailored to the needs of patients and their families. Emphasis will be placed on maintaining good customer relations, exercising sound clinical judgment, making appropriate decisions, and adopting a team-oriented approach grounded in evidence-based practice.

The therapist will monitor patient responses to treatment, recommend complex and customized adaptive equipment as needed, and provide clinical support and expertise to specialty programs. Interaction and participation with staff, student development, and the advancement of clinical competency programs are expected to better serve our patients, families, physicians, and other healthcare providers.

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Physical Therapy.

• Pediatric experience preferred.

• BLS certification within 30 days of employment required.

• State license for Physical Therapy or licensure eligible.

About Us:

Cook Childrens Health Care System

Cook Childrens Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the countrys leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Childrens to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents.

Cook Childrens is an equal opportunity employer. As such, Cook Childrens offers equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected class in accordance with applicable federal laws. These opportunities include terms, conditions and privileges of employment, including but not limited to hiring, job placement, training, compensation, discipline, advancement and termination.

The physical therapist will work in the Research department in the Upper Extremity Motion Analysis Lab, which evaluates patients and provides clinical data to help providers enhance treatment plans. This individual will collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary team that includes physicians, therapists, biomechanists, and research scientists in our newly established motion capture laboratory. This lab features the latest 3D marker-based and markerless sensor technology, along with electromyography evaluation. Their role will involve studying, analyzing, and improving patient movement and function.

This position will plan, evaluate, organize, and implement physical therapy treatment programs in a developmentally appropriate manner for our pediatric patients facing various issues and conditions affecting their upper extremities. The physical therapist will deliver competent and skilled care tailored to the needs of patients and their families. Emphasis will be placed on maintaining good customer relations, exercising sound clinical judgment, making appropriate decisions, and adopting a team-oriented approach grounded in evidence-based practice.

The therapist will monitor patient responses to treatment, recommend complex and customized adaptive equipment as needed, and provide clinical support and expertise to specialty programs. Interaction and participation with staff, student development, and the advancement of clinical competency programs are expected to better serve our patients, families, physicians, and other healthcare providers.

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Physical Therapy.

• Pediatric experience preferred.

• BLS certification within 30 days of employment required.

• State license for Physical Therapy or licensure eligible.

Cook Childrens Health Care System Job ID #d9eb11cb82a81001ef5551a4ba0a0001. Posted job title: Physical Therapist

About Cook Childrens Health Care System

Benefits

• Holiday Pay
• Continuing Education
• 403b retirement plan
• Pet insurance
• Sick pay
• Wellness and fitness programs
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Life insurance
• Discount program
• Employee assistance programs