Physical Therapist Assistant
Location
Grand Junction
Type
Full Time
- 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.
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.
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