Physical Therapist Assistant

Summary Administers physical therapy treatments to patients, working under direction of and as an assistant to Physical Therapist, by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides patient care in accordance with established protocols and patient care guidelines.
• Responsible for conduct that is in accordance with FYZICAL's values statement and social contract.
• Responsible for a firm understanding and the implementation of our behavioral model (ARC) at all times while practicing.
• Responsible for timely documentation, including but not limited to daily notes, weekly workers compensation reports, progress reports, and incident reports.
• Responsible for assuring that patients are treated promptly in accordance with their scheduled appointments.
• Responsible for conveying to patients the importance of complying with established plans of care, including home exercise programs and minimizing cancellations and no show of appointments. This is tracked independently with the expectation of achieving at 90% appointment kept rate.
• Responsible for the provision of comprehensive patient care, administers active and passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, and heat, light, sound, water, and electrical modality treatment such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, ultraviolet, infrared, and hot and cold packs.
• Administers traction to relieve neck and back pain.
• Instructs, motivates, and assists patients to learn and improve functional activities such as perambulation, transfer, ambulation, and daily living activities.
• Observes patients during treatments and compiles data on patients' responses to treatments and progress and reports orally or in writing to Physical Therapist.
• Fits patients for, adjusts, and trains patients in use and care of orthopedic braces, prostheses, and supportive devices such as crutches, canes, walkers, and wheelchairs.
• Confers with members of physical therapy staff and other health team members, individually and in conference, to exchange, discuss, and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, and coordinating treatment programs.
• Gives orientation to new Physical Therapist Assistants and directs and gives instructions to Rehab Techs.
• Performs clerical duties such as taking inventory, ordering supplies, answering telephone calls, taking messages, and filling out forms.
• Measures patient's range-of-joint motion, length and girth of body parts, and vital signs to determine effects of specific treatments or to assist Physical Therapist to compile data for patient evaluations.
• Monitors treatment administered by Rehab Techs.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
Graduated from an Accredited Physical Therapy Assistant program and in possession of a clear and active State Licensure.
Language Skills
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Mathematical Skills
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Computer Skills
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Database software; Internet software; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.
Other Skills and Abilities
Warm, pleasant, and compassionate with interactions with colleagues and patients.
Other Qualifications
50% + of this job description lies in the ability to work in a calm, effective manner as a member of a team and consistently get along well with others.
Physical DemandsThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk to hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities require by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work EnvironmentThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those and employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Compensation: $50.00 per year
FYZICAL Therapy & Balance Centers
FYZICAL Therapy & Balance Centers
What's it like to be a part of the FYZICAL team? Challenging. But not because you can't help your client improve for lack of technology or because your ideas got lost in management. It's challenging because pushing yourself and your clients beyond expectations, beyond 'good enough' is hard.
We're a high energy team, we treat clients with dignity and empathy, and we work hard to improve lives through physical therapy. Our people are our greatest asset - we hire individuals who are professional and respond to advances in research, technology, science and health care. In exchange, our team provides a superb working environment, and unique and exciting possibilities for expansion.