Voca Healthcare is seeking a travel Physical Therapist for a travel job in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Physical Therapist
- Discipline: Therapy
- Start Date: 05/26/2025
- Duration: 10 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
Duties:
The Seasonal Physical Therapist is responsible for the implementation of the physician's order for physical therapy services. The Seasonal Physical Therapist should provide all necessary aspects of physical therapy within an interdisciplinary environment in order to facilitate the return of the patient to as independent and safe lifestyle as possible. The Seasonal Physical Therapist must utilize a growth and development knowledge base in the care of children (pediatric), adolescent, and geriatric patients. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served; also demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age specific needs, and to provide the care needed.
Skills:
- Able to perform patient evaluations with use of appropriate functional tests/measures and demonstrates the ability to assimilate objective measures along with social factors, medical stability, activity restrictions, participation limitations or other relative comorbidities to determine functional deficits and construct short term goals, long term goals and personal/family goals with an appropriate frequency and duration in order to establish the therapy diagnosis and appropriate plan of care.
- Demonstrate the ability to tolerate physically demanding tasks of moving equipment and patients utilizing safety measures for both self and patients per the physical/environmental demands specified below.
- Demonstrates proper, secure documentation in the Electronic Medical Record
- Demonstrates the ability to use critical thinking with patient evaluation and treatment planning
- Demonstrates understanding of moist heat and other physical agent modalities commonly used as these apply to each area of practice
- Utilizes age-specific patient care indicators all as necessary or indicated per plan of care
- Demonstrates understanding of the musculoskeletal, nervous and integumentary system utilizing age-specific patient care indicators as it relates to each structure
- Appropriately identifies learning needs of patient or family members
- Works as a team member to assist patient/family at all points of entry into the acute therapy care system.
- This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related job duties as assigned.
Education:
The incumbent shall, at a minimum:
- be a graduate of a four year bachelor's degree approved Physical Therapy Program
- provide proof of 2 hours of CVA specific continuing education obtained within the recent 4 months
Work Experience
Minimum of one of the following as a Licensed Physical Therapist:
- 1 year of full-time acute care specific experience or
- 2 years of skilled nursing / inpatient rehab facility experience or
- 2 years of acute care specific experience, when in the context of working less than full time hours in this area of practice
Certification/Licensure:
Hold a valid permanent license as a physical therapist from the Mississippi State Board of Physical Therapy
Job ID BCV
About Voca Healthcare
As a Voca Traveler, you will gain new clinical skills, visit amazing places and meet awesome healthcare professionals.
As a travel health professional, your experience and dedication to patient care is in high demand throughout the United States. Whether you are a veteran traveler looking for your next opportunity, or you are looking to travel for the first time, Voca is here to support you. Voca's experienced and dedicated travel team works in concert with you every step of the way. Our long-standing partnerships with some of the most respected and recognized healthcare organizations in the country allow us to identify career opportunities to help you increase your knowledge and experience while working with some of the best physicians and healthcare professionals in the world. At Voca, we strongly believe a better career results in a happier you. We are here to help you find a position that is professionally and personally rewarding.
Benefits
- Holiday Pay
- 401k retirement plan
- Referral bonus
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Retention bonus
- Weekly pay