Physical Therapist Tech

Under the supervision of the Rehabilitation Director, provides assistance with patient care, maintenance of department cleanliness, equipment inventory and receptionist support for the department. Assists therapy staff with identification and transportation needs for patient care in the rehab treatment areas and with the coordination of care between rehab and nursing floors.

Essential Functions:

• Completes patient transfers and transports in a safe manner adhering to weight bearing status, contraindications, precautions and proper body mechanics at all times.
• Monitors patients to assure accurate follow through with therapist’s exercise instructions. Prepares and cleans therapy area for patient use adhering to protocols and assists with treatments as appropriate.
• Delivers all documentation and equipment to the appropriate unit on a daily basis and within established time frames.
• Maintains temperature logs, hot/cold therapy logs and refrigerator temperature logs as outlined by company standards.
• Maintains all areas of the department in a clean and orderly fashion as defined by the Rehab Tech Responsibility list.
• Prepares and maintains appropriate number of packets for specialty areas.
• Maintains central service stock at appropriate levels for the department.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrates basic understanding of patient transfers, transport and a patient care environment.
• Demonstrates basic understanding of therapy treatment principles.
• Requires basic understanding of the related behaviors, needs and comfort appropriate to age (including infant, child, adolescent, aging adult) and diagnosis of patients served in order to support the provision of an individualized interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Demonstrates well developed interpersonal and communication skills necessary to interact effectively with all internal and external customers.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of the English language both verbal and written.