Careers

Physical Therapist

Seneca County

Posted 8/4/2025

Responsibilities

TYPICAL WORK ACTIVITIES: (Illustrative Only):
• Develops evaluation and rehabilitation plans for children with physical delays, disorders, and/or impairments;
• Uses a wide variety of modalities to provide treatment focusing on improving gross and fine motor skills, balance and
coordination, strength and endurance as well as sensory processing/integration of the child;
• Evaluate child’s cognitive and social aspects of physical delay, limitations and sensory integration with regards to
challenging behavior and ineffective social skills;
• Performs and documents evaluation of child referred using evaluative techniques to diagnose physical delays, disorders
and/or impairments;
• Administers standardized evaluation tests/assessments as primary or generalist evaluator within a team – with regards to
five functional domains of growth and development – Communication (receptive and expressive), Physical (fine and gross
motor), Cognitive (thinking and reasoning), Social Emotional and Adaptive (self-help skills);
• Establishes and implements long-term and short-term therapy goals, treatment strategies and methods to aid in the
treatment/remediation of the delay, disorder and/or impairment;
• Collaborates with the child’s family and team to provide intervention to meet the developmental, educational, functional
and medical physical therapy needs;
• Formulates and carries out plans to meet the needs of the child and family and routinely reviews the child’s progress/delays
with team members and supervisor;
• Consults with physicians and other health care and educational professionals and paraprofessionals as a member of a
multidisciplinary team in developing and implementing appropriate therapeutic approaches;
• Develops and implements remediation programs on an individual and/or group basis based on evaluative data and
behavioral objectives for each child;
• Provides therapy using various assistive technologies such as prone standers, gait trainers, mobile positioning systems,
orthotics and various specialized techniques including sensory integration;
• Provides strength based therapeutic strategies/techniques to parents / guardians / family / daycare providers to increase
their own capacity and confidence in their ability to help the child improve functional development relating to the delay,
disorder and/or impairment;
• Observes and measures progress of child receiving service;
• Establishes and maintains professional contacts with relative agencies to further benefit the overall treatment of child and
family;
• Visits houses of children, parents/guardians, family, daycare providers and works to establish services according to
child/family needs;
• Uses computer applications or other automated systems such as spreadsheets, word processing, calendar, email and
database software in performing work assignments;
• Prepares a variety of reports, including computer-based reports as required;
• Accesses protected educational and health information in accordance with departmental assignments and guidelines;
• Maintains a variety of case management related records;
• Reviews existing case records for available information for use in formulating need and plan of service in collaboration
with other team members;
• Other duties as assigned including (but not limited to) participation in emergency preparedness training, drills and real
event response activities

Minimum Qualification

A. Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State approved College or University with a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree AND one (1) year of full-time paid (or the equivalent part-time) post-licensure experience specifically performing physical therapy with children aged birth to five years; AND
B. Licensure and current registration to practice as a Licensed Physical Therapist in NYS; AND
C. Possession of a current American Red Cross Basic Life Support for the Professional Rescuer C.P.R. or equivalent certification.

Note: Your degree must have been awarded by a college or university accredited by a regional, national, or specialized agency
recognized as an accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education/U.S. Secretary of Education. If your degree was awarded
by an educational institution outside the United States and its territories, you must provide independent verification of equivalency.

A list of acceptable companies who provide this service can be found on the Internet at http://www.cs.ny.gov/jobseeker/degrees.cfm. You must pay the required evaluation fee.

Note: Verifiable part-time service may be given prorated credit toward experience requirements.

Special Requirement

RESIDENCY: Candidates must have been legal residents of Seneca County or one of the six (6) contiguous counties for one (1) month preceding the date of application. Preference in appointment may be given to successful candidates who have been legal residents of the municipality in which appointment is to be made for at least one (1) month prior to the date of certification and are residents of such municipality at the time of appointment.

Salary: 75,518