Physical Therapy Aide Part Time 48 hours- bi-weekly Mon, Weds, Fri / Float Avon, Danville, and Plainfield

Job description

Job Summary: Serves in- and out-patients needing Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy Services through prompt and effective assistance to the therapist and maintains/cleans equipment and treatment areas. Assures that the departments' customer needs are met through his/her promptness of phone skills and relaying information pertaining the customers requests. Job Description: Essential Responsibilities: 1. Use common sense and special clinical skills to care for the sick or handicapped with regard to the patients age and diagnosis. 2. Supports hospital mission and values statement, strategic plan and vision, and department service statement and department philosophy. 3. Assists therapists with patient treatments in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the treatments. The assistance is supervised by the therapist and may include, but not limited to, a) assisting in the following treatments: hot packs, cryotherapy, exercise supervision, monitoring of vital signs, ambulation and transfer training, dressing changes, b) setting up the following equipment: US, electrical stimulation, vasopneumatic compression, assistive devices, sterile fields, and c) assisting patient...