Physical Therapy Assistant- Inpatient

San Antonio, Texas, United States | Full-time

Job Description:

Johnson Venture Management Solutions is hiring a Physical Therapist Assistant for the Brooke Army Medical Center. A great opportunity to enhance your skills and knowledge.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Promotes and maintains health by providing physical therapy services under the supervision of a physical therapist.
• Contributes to a physical therapist’s effectiveness by identifying patient care issues.
• Administers treatment programs for patients.
• Assesses patient health by interviewing patients, performing physical examinations, and obtaining updating, and studying therapy histories.
• Evaluates abnormal conditions by reviewing physical therapist’s interpretations of patient evaluations and test results.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• 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.
• Helps patients in using supportive devices, such as crutches, canes, and prostheses.
• Instructs and counsels patients by describing therapeutic regimens, giving normal growth and development information, and promoting wellness and health maintenance.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations, and adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Maintains production objectives by noting current treatment trends and monitoring actual physical therapy services rendered to production objectives.
• Maintains legal and accreditation compliance by adhering to policy positions concerning federal, state, and local regulations and JCO standards.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading periodicals, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Enhances physical therapy reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of two years' experience as a physical therapy assistant after graduation
• Experience and training with an emphasis in manual therapy. orthopedic, geriatric, neurological and acute patient care is required

Education:

• Associate degree for physical therapy assistant

License/Certification:

• Must be licensed by the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners (TBPTE) can provide physical therapy in Texas
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)
• Meet Continuing Medical Education (CME) requirements

Requirements:

• Local travel may be required
• Must have 2 years experience providing direct patient care in an acute inpatient physical therapy setting

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with amputee, burn and limb salvage

 

 

 

Posted On: Wednesday, November 1, 2023