The Pediatric Movement Center is looking for a full-time speech therapist to join our team! This role centers treatment on giving a child the opportunity to reach his or her highest level of development.

Job Description

The Pediatric Movement Center (PMC) is family-centered and passionate about providing the best care to the children and families in the Tri-state region. Through individualized patient-centered practices designed to empower children with and without special needs, we provide comprehensive therapeutic, recreation, and support services to children and their families in our community and surrounding areas. The Pediatric Movement Center is looking for a Speech Language Pathologist to join our team! This position role centers treatment on giving a child the opportunity to reach his or her highest level of development.

Position Summary

Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) are expected to assess and treat children with speech, language, voice, fluency, and feeding/swallowing delays and disorders. The SLP will collect client background and medical history for diagnostic and treatment purposes. The SLP will be able to interpret speech, language, and hearing test results as well as modified barium swallow test results to best implement a treatment plan of care. The SLP will demonstrate competency in identifying adaptive equipment for augmentative-assistive communication needs. The SLP will develop a treatment plan and monitor progress for each child on his/her caseload. The SLP is expected to maintain thorough, up-to-date treatment notes on each client and develop appropriate home programs for clients when applicable. The SLP is expected to demonstrate effective communication skills between therapists, client and client’s family.

Moderate physical effort, standing/walking, occasionally lifts clients, supplies and/or equipment, occasional reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching, manual dexterity and mobility

The Pediatric Movement Center is looking for a full-time physical therapist to join our team! This role centers treatment on giving a child the opportunity to reach his or her highest level of development.

Physical therapists will provide comprehensive assessments, perform evaluations, establish diagnoses and prognosis, identify the plan of care, and perform interventions as appropriate for children referred to the Pediatric Movement Center. Physical therapists will provide physical therapy assistants directions and supervision for therapy interventions.

A physical therapist is expected to work with individuals to acquire, maintain, restore, and improve movement, activity, and function.  As a result, the individual is able to achieve optimal performance, enhanced health, well-being, and quality of life. A physical therapist at PMC is to provide services that prevent, minimize, or eliminate impairments of body functions and structures, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Physical therapy is provided for individuals of all ages who have or may develop impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions related to (1) conditions of the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and/or integumentary systems or (2) the negative effects attributable to unique personal and environmental factors as they relate to human performance.

• Minimum Education: Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy school and licensed in the State of Maryland.
• One+ years of clinical experience in a pediatric therapy setting. Required skills include developmental handling and knowledge related to development in both gross motor milestones and motor coordination in a pediatric clinic-based setting. Effective written and oral communication skills are also required throughout this process.

Moderate physical effort, standing/walking, occasionally lifts clients, supplies and/or equipment, occasional reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching, manual dexterity and mobility

The Pediatric Movement Center is looking for a PRN physical therapist to join our team! This role centers treatment on giving a child the opportunity to reach his or her highest level of development.

Physical therapists will provide comprehensive assessments, perform evaluations, establish diagnoses and prognosis, identify the plan of care, and perform interventions as appropriate for children referred to the Pediatric Movement Center. Physical therapists will provide physical therapy assistants directions and supervision for therapy interventions.

A physical therapist is expected to work with individuals to acquire, maintain, restore, and improve movement, activity, and function.  As a result, the individual is able to achieve optimal performance, enhanced health, well-being, and quality of life. A physical therapist at PMC is to provide services that prevent, minimize, or eliminate impairments of body functions and structures, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Physical therapy is provided for individuals of all ages who have or may develop impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions related to (1) conditions of the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and/or integumentary systems or (2) the negative effects attributable to unique personal and environmental factors as they relate to human performance.

• Minimum Education: Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy school and licensed in the State of Maryland.
• One+ years of clinical experience in a pediatric therapy setting. Required skills include developmental handling and knowledge related to development in both gross motor milestones and motor coordination in a pediatric clinic-based setting. Effective written and oral communication skills are also required throughout this process.

Moderate physical effort, standing/walking, occasionally lifts clients, supplies and/or equipment, occasional reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching, manual dexterity and mobility