Job description
PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSISTANT PTA
Riverwood Center 2802 Parental Home Road, Jacksonville, FL 32216
Shift: Full Time
Responsibilities:
- Maintains production objectives by noting current treatment trends and monitoring actual physical therapy services rendered to production objectives.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations, and adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
- Instructs and counsels patients by describing therapeutic regimens, giving normal growth and development information, and promoting wellness and health maintenance
- Helps patients in using supportive devices, such as crutches, canes, and prostheses.
- Performs therapeutic procedures by administering manual exercises and instructing, encouraging, and assisting patients in performing physical activities, such as non-manual exercises, ambulatory functional activities, and daily-living activities.
- Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
- Evaluates abnormal conditions by reviewing physical therapist’s interpretations of patient evaluations and test results.
- Assesses patient health by interviewing patients, performing physical examinations, and obtaining updating, and studying therapy histories.
- Administers treatment programs for patients.
- Contributes to a physical therapist’s effectiveness by identifying patient care issues.
Requirements/Qualifications:
- Associate Degree in Physical Therapy from an accredited program
- Valid PTA license in state of practice
- Current CPR and first aid certification
- 3+ years' clinical experience
Location:
Jacksonville, FL
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