Pediatric Physical Therapist Assistant (Pta) Home Health

Job Description
All Care Therapies iscurrently seeking aPediatric Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA)to join our team in a home health setting! This is an exciting opportunity to join an evolving therapy team, serving the Southern California area since 2009 and now expanding to the Greater Las Vegas area. As a leader in the rehabilitative care industry, we strive to continually bring solutions to address the evolving challenges of therapy providers. Offering a fun atmosphere of growth and a team dedicated to serving all people from all walks of life.
Why Join Us:
Clinicians choose their own hours.
Quick and easy documentation
Quick and electronic payment
Flexibility to make your own schedule
Support staff is always here to help.
Description:
We are looking for a physical therapist assistant that delivers compassionatecareto patients, contributes to the multidisciplinary team, and collaborates with families to deliver a plan ofcareas developed by a licensed Physical Therapist.
Individual physical therapy plans differ depending on patients' needs, but all strive to develop, increase, or maintain independence in performing tasks of daily living for our pediatric patients.
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 under a licensed physical therapist.
Identifies 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.
Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading periodicals, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
Generates revenues by recording billing information of services rendered.
Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.