Physical Therapist I - Pelvic Health

Description

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Summary

UNC Hospitals Rehabilitation Services is seeking a motivated, compassionate Physical Therapist I to join our specialized Pelvic Health program at UNC Therapy Services - Durham in Durham, North Carolina. This full-time opportunity is well suited to a therapist with a strong interest in pelvic health, including an early-career clinician with qualifying pelvic health clinical training, who values evidence-based practice, individualized care, and continued professional growth.

UNC Therapy Services - Durham is a center for specialty outpatient pelvic health, cancer rehabilitation, and lymphedema services. In this role, you will primarily provide pelvic health physical therapy to adults of diverse genders and backgrounds, helping patients address conditions that affect comfort, mobility, continence, daily function, and quality of life. Our pelvic health caseload includes bladder and bowel dysfunction, urinary or fecal incontinence, urgency, pelvic pain, pelvic floor muscle dysfunction, pregnancy- and postpartum-related concerns, pelvic organ prolapse, sexual function-related concerns, and post-surgical or other complex abdominopelvic conditions.

A defining feature of our care model is one-on-one treatment with 60-minute appointments in private treatment rooms. This approach provides time for thorough evaluation, individualized treatment, patient education, and thoughtful clinical progression, while supporting the privacy and trust essential to pelvic health care.

Our clinicians collaborate with experienced pelvic health therapists, referring physicians, advanced practice providers, and other rehabilitation specialists. The Durham program has also been involved in UNC Health's Women's Health Physical Therapy Residency, offering opportunities for professional exchange, learning, and interaction with experienced mentors and residency educators as appropriate.

We value respectful, patient-centered, and trauma-informed care. Therapists use clear communication, shared decision-making, and informed consent throughout examination and treatment, with special attention to patient comfort, autonomy, and individual needs. Pelvic floor assessment and interventions are performed only as clinically appropriate and within the therapist's training, demonstrated competency, and applicable practice standards.

This role offers the opportunity to grow within a focused specialty program while contributing to high-quality care, team collaboration, clinical education, and service improvement. We welcome candidates with prior pelvic health experience, as well as qualifying recent graduates who have completed a dedicated pelvic health clinical rotation and foundational pelvic floor education.

Work Schedule

- Full-time, 1.0 FTE, 40 hours per week.

- Day shift with flexible scheduling of workdays and start/end times based on clinic needs and the selected candidate's availability.

- Onsite patient care at UNC Therapy Services - Durham, 3708 Mayfair Street, Suite 120, Durham, NC 27707.

- Specific daily schedules and clinical templates will be established in coordination with program leadership.

Core Responsibilities

Pelvic Health Evaluation & Treatment: Perform evidence-based physical therapy examinations and interventions for adult patients with pelvic floor and abdominopelvic dysfunction. Assess functional limitations, movement patterns, pain, strength, coordination, and other relevant impairments. Develop individualized goals and treatment plans that reflect clinical findings and patient priorities.

Clinical Assessment & Plan of Care: Select appropriate tests and outcome measures; interpret findings; establish and modify treatment plans; and reassess patient progress. Integrate musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, behavioral, and functional considerations into care while recognizing when additional consultation or referral is appropriate.

Specialized Pelvic Rehabilitation: Provide appropriate therapeutic exercise, movement retraining, neuromuscular re-education, manual interventions, functional rehabilitation, symptom-management strategies, and home-program education. Perform pelvic floor examinations or interventions when indicated, with informed consent and within completed training and clinical competencies.

Patient Education & Therapeutic Relationships: Educate patients and caregivers as appropriate about pelvic health, self-management, behavioral strategies, activity modification, and rehabilitation progression. Deliver respectful, culturally responsive, trauma-informed care through clear communication, shared decision-making, and attention to patient dignity and privacy.

Documentation, Billing & Caseload Management: Maintain accurate, timely documentation, billing, and required clinical records in accordance with departmental and regulatory expectations. Manage scheduled patient visits and care coordination effectively while supporting patient access, quality outcomes, and appropriate productivity standards.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Coordinate with referring providers, pelvic health colleagues, other physical therapists, and appropriate medical specialists to support safe, continuous care for patients with multifactorial or complex clinical needs.

Clinical Growth, Education & Mentorship: Participate in orientation, competency development, continuing education, team in-services, and clinical mentorship. Contribute to student learning, residency-related educational activities, and peer collaboration as appropriate to experience, competency, and assigned responsibilities.

Program Support & Quality Improvement: Participate in departmental meetings, evidence-based practice discussions, quality improvement, patient access initiatives, and service development activities. Assist experienced clinicians and leaders with improvements to clinical workflows and program delivery.

Why Join UNC Health?

Individualized Specialty Care: Provide primarily one-on-one, 60-minute pelvic health appointments in private treatment rooms, allowing time for comprehensive assessment, treatment, education, and patient-centered clinical decision-making.

Focused Pelvic Health Practice: Treat a clinically diverse adult pelvic health caseload while developing expertise in bladder and bowel dysfunction, pelvic pain, pregnancy and postpartum rehabilitation, and complex pelvic floor conditions.

Collaborative Learning Environment: Work with experienced specialty clinicians in a program connected to broader UNC Health rehabilitation services, including opportunities for clinical discussion, mentorship, and interaction with educators involved in pelvic health residency training.

Professional Development: Explore continuing education, specialized pelvic health training, professional certification pathways, clinical teaching, and quality improvement activities, with eligible educational support and career advancement opportunities in accordance with UNC Health policies.

Comprehensive Benefits: Eligible full-time teammates have access to competitive compensation, medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement options, wellness resources, and additional UNC Health employee benefits, subject to applicable plan and program eligibility.

Other information:
Education Requirements:
* Graduation from an accredited Physical Therapy program.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:

- Licensed as a Physical Therapist in the state of North Carolina.

- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification in accordance with UNC Health requirements.

Professional Experience Requirements:

- No minimum years of post-graduation professional experience are required for the Physical Therapist I classification.

- For this pelvic health specialty assignment, candidates must have either prior clinical work experience in pelvic health physical therapy OR a completed 12-week student clinical rotation focused on pelvic health.

- Completion of Pelvic Floor Level 1 education is required for this specialty assignment.

- Prior outpatient pelvic health experience, additional pelvic health coursework, and experience providing trauma-informed care are preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

- Strong foundational physical therapy examination, treatment planning, clinical reasoning, and patient education skills.

- Commitment to safe, evidence-based, trauma-informed, and patient-centered pelvic health practice with appropriate informed consent and respect for patient preferences.

- Effective communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, documentation, organizational, and time-management skills.

- Ability to care for an adult pelvic health population across genders and a range of clinical presentations.

- Willingness to seek appropriate consultation, develop competencies, participate in mentorship, and contribute to team-based improvement.

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: UNC Therapy Services

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$35.87 - $51.57 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.