Physical Therapist for Early Intervention
Location
Providence, RI | United States
Job description
Meeting Street believes the dignity of each person is paramount. We recognize that our community's future strength rests firmly on our commitment to our values of respect, compassion, integrity, inclusivity, and excellence.
Meeting Street does not discriminate in services or employment on the basis of ethnicity, race, age, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, economic background/circumstances, physical and/or mental abilities, veteran status, marital status or resident immigration status. Meeting Street respects and celebrates the diversity that contributes to a healthy, caring community.
To uphold these commitments, we expect all employees to recognize and properly respond to racism and other forms of injustice.
Meeting Street is currently offering a four-step $5,000 bonus to new employees for full-time, benefit eligible positions. Summary of Main Duties :
Partners and provides support to families of infants or toddlers with a disability so that the child can develop to their fullest potential and participate functionally within their family and community. Services provided will address the promotion of sensory motor functions through enhancement of musculoskeletal status, neurobehavioral organization, perceptual and motor development, cardiopulmonary status, and environmental adaptation. This position is 40 hours per week.
Job Duties :
- Works as member of team, partnering with the family, to gather, organize, analyze, interpret, and accurately report on information from multiple sources to plan and administer an individualized evaluation/assessment.
- Conducts ongoing assessments to monitor child's development and functional skills, progress toward IFSP outcomes, and to determine effectiveness of individual program planning.
- Refers and provides access to other community resources based on evaluation/assessment results.
- Develops IFSPs that clearly outline family supports, individualized strategies, and relevant services that work toward outcome achievement in a variety of settings that can be independently followed and maintained by the families.
- Maintains, in partnership with the family, consistent communication with EI team, medical, and community contacts.
- Identifies and accesses resources that support IFSP outcomes and enhances natural learning opportunities.
- Incorporates information and strategies from multiple disciplines to implement intervention strategies within the family's routines, activities, and natural environments.
- Coaches caregivers with strategies for integration into daily routines and to better understand the toddler's or infant's developmental needs.
- Complies with state and agency policies and procedures regarding health, safety, and well-being.
- Conducts screenings, evaluations, assessment sand intervention services to address the functional developmental needs of an infant or toddler with a disability with and emphasis on mobility, positioning, fine and gross motor development, and both strength and endurance, including the identification of specific motor disorders.
- Creates adaptation of the environment, and selects, designs, and fabricates assistive and orthotic devices to facilitate development and promote the acquisition of functional skills.
- Obtains, interprets, and integrates information appropriate to program planning to prevent, alleviate, or compensate for movement dysfunction and related functional problems
- Provides individual and group services or treatment to prevent, alleviate or compensate for movement dysfunction and related functional problems.
Full-time employees at Meeting Street enjoy low cost benefits package that includes medical and dental insurance plans (BCBSRI), vision insurance (VSP), employer-paid life insurance and long term disability, optional employee and dependent life insurance, voluntary medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts, up to 5% company matching 403(b) retirement plan, generous paid time off (PTO), BCBS Wellness Program, mileage reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program and much more!
If you are looking for a rewarding career to make a difference in children's lives, then you have found the right path with Meeting Street. This is an opportunity to join Meeting Street where individuals of all abilities learn, play, work and live together.
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Requirements
- Licensed as a Physical Therapist in Rhode Island.
- Valid drivers license and ability to provide own transportation to appointments.
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