What You'll Do:

As a Outpatient Pediatric Physical Therapist on our team, you will work with children, teens, and families to examine, evaluate, diagnose, prognose, and intervene to ensure optimal outcomes. You will be responsible for developing plans of care and providing treatment techniques and interventions to improve mobility, reduce pain, and restore function through collaboration with referring providers and other clinical staff ensuring optimal patient care through appropriate and timely methods of communication and treatment. After the initial observation and evaluation, you will create a plan of care that identifies individual goals, age-specific activities, milestones, and family education that will be integrated into each follow-up session. These sessions will help children and teens overcome challenges, improve balance and coordination, improve proper positioning, teach motor development, provide age-appropriate developmental activities and Intervention to build skills, and provide mobility training and adaptive equipment recommendations. Our current pediatric therapy team consists of 5 Occupational Therapists, 3 Physical Therapists, and 2 Rehabilitation Technicians for support.

What's Available:

• Part-time, 64 hours biweekly (0.8 FTE)

• Monday - Friday, variable clinic hours between 7am-5:30 pm, no weekends or holidays 

• Starting salary of $65,650 (based on 0.8 FTE) and up, commensurate with your years of experience

• Hour long appointment/visit lengths; you will spend 2 days in La Crosse, WI & 2 days in Winona, MN per week

What You'll Need:  

• Bachelor's degree, or higher, in Physical Therapy from an American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) approved curriculum in Physical Therapy

• State of Wisconsin & State of Minnesota Physical Therapist Licenses

• Current BLS for Health Care Providers from American Heart Association or American Red Cross 

• Passion for working with children and teens

• Ideal candidate will have prior pediatric experience

• Must be credentialed with Gundersen prior to starting

What You'll Get: 

• Unlimited potential at one of the leading health systems in the midwestern United States

• A highly adaptable and mission-driven organization with a work environment that supports you personally and professionally and a work culture where you are valued and appreciated

• A care team with longevity and low turnover, shared office spaces for therapist collaboration, and the ability to work with complex patient cases both independently and as a team

• Continuing Education and Patient Education through Medbridge: All PTs, PTAs, OTs, OTAs, and SLPs receive a silver level membership to MedBridge for patient home programs and continuing education

• Competitive Compensation: Enjoy an attractive salary, based on your years of experience, ensuring your skills and dedication are valued and rewarded

• A comprehensive and generous benefits package (Medical, Dental, Life Ins, HSA/FSA) ensuring your comfort and well-being as a valuable team member

• Substantial retirement contribution including a 401k match & annual discretionary base contribution

• Paid Time Off (PTO) combines vacation, sick, and personal days into one balance to allow you the flexibility to use your time off as you need

• Support for your career growth through Professional Development Opportunities, our Tuition Investment Program, and Career Development Center

• Other benefits include a Wellness program with incentives, employer-paid life insurance and AD&D, optional short-term and long-term disability coverage, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, pet insurance, Inspire & Celebrate colleague recognition and rewards program, a discount program, and more!

• Relocation Assistance Available

Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care and the right amount of love. We call it LOVE + MEDICINE and it’s more than our practice. It is who we are. You can be a Pediatric Physical Therapist anywhere. But not everywhere practices LOVE + MEDICINE.

About Us:

Emplify Health by Gundersen is the leading provider of primary and specialized care in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa, serving more than 500,000 residents throughout 19 counties annually. Our physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare system includes a 325-bed teaching hospital, tertiary referral center, and Level II Trauma Center; community clinics; affiliate hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes; behavioral health services; vision centers; pharmacies; and air and ground ambulance services. Our mission is simple yet profound: Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating.