Position Summary:
This position is responsible for evaluating, planning, and implementing medically prescribed treatment programs for clients to restore functions, relieve pain, and prevent disability following disease or injury. Care is provided according to Physical Therapy Practice Act and MultiCare policies and procedures for inpatient and outpatient population. This is a professional-level position, operating independently, under limited supervision. Work situations require analysis, interpretation of information from a variety of sources, a service-oriented individual, and the use of discretion and good judgment in decision-making. Internal contacts are primarily within the work group but may also include patient care staff and Case Managers. External contacts include patients, physicians, and outside health care facilities and agencies work with the patient and patient’s family.

Minimum Requirements:
Successful completion of state board Physical Therapist examination
Experience in orthopedic, neurologic, cardiac patient management desirable

Education/Licenses/Certifications:
Currently licensed to practice physical therapy in the State of Washington
New Graduates – Permitted to practice with Interim Permit in the State of Washington
-Up to six (6) months.
-If the Graduate PT fails examination, this Interim Permit expiries and is not renewable.

Position Type: Full-Time Regular
Full Time Employee: Yes
Primary Shift: Day
Work Schedule: Day

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MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed system of health in the state of Washington, serving communities across Washington and Northern Idaho. MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network; MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care; Pulse Heart Institute; MultiCare Medical Associates, affiliated physicians; MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region; and MultiCare Connected Care, our Accountable Care Organization. Eleven hospitals complete the organization: Allenmore Hospital, Auburn Medical Center, Capital Medical Center, Covington Medical Center, Deaconess Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital — the Puget Sound region’s only children’s hospital and state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center for Western Washingt...on — Navos Behavioral Health Hospital, Valley Hospital, Tacoma General Hospital — which is home to the South Puget Sound region’s only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — and Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital. Our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration and Kindness, serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other. MultiCare is also proud of our commitment to workforce diversity and culturally competent care. This commitment is led by our CEO and supported through employee education and community outreach.

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