Physical Therapy Assistant

Description

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Rex Impatient Rehab Services is currently seeking a dedicated and compassionate Acute Care Physical Therapist to join our dynamic rehabilitation team. This full-time, Monday-Friday position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by providing high-quality, evidence-based physical therapy care to patients in an acute care setting.

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering a broad range of skilled therapeutic interventions, tailored to each patient's individual needs and aligned with the treatment goals and evaluations established by the physical therapy team. You'll play an integral role in helping patients regain function and mobility by progressing treatment plans based on real-time assessments of their progress. Additionally, you'll collaborate in discharge planning to ensure continuity of care and optimal recovery outcomes.

Ideal candidates will bring prior clinical experience in an acute care setting and demonstrate a strong commitment to patient-centered care, clinical excellence, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities:
1. Contributes to various interdisciplinary team meetings to plan for patient needs, discuss family education plans, and discharge plans.
2. Precepts PT technicians or other physical therapist assistants and evaluate the learner's competency per department guidelines.
3. Documents patient treatment and progress toward goals. Completes department records for billing and statistics.
4. Instructs physical therapy and physical therapist assistant students.
5. Provides skilled physical therapy treatments to a wide variety of patients. Designs and teach exercise program to meet PT goals. Fits and teaches patient to use ambulatory devices including braces, walkers, canes, crutches safely to negotiate stairs, curbs, and unlevel ground. Teaches patient airway clearance techniques and perform chest PT procedures. Instructs patient and family in home exercises, ambulation, and use of adaptive equipment for discharge.
6. Participation - Contributes to quality of clinical services through attendance and participation in departmental meetings and in-services.
7. Quality-Contributes to quality of clinical services through maintenance of valid & reliable records of patient procedures & progress. Participates in quality improvement initiatives with the clinical specialist and other healthcare professionals. Participates in continuous quality improvement efforts in conjunction with the department director

Other information:
Education Requirements:
* Graduation from an accredited two-year Physical Therapist Assistant program.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* Licensed as a Physical Therapist Assistant by the state of North Carolina.
* BLS
Professional Experience Requirements:
* No prior experience required.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Rex IP Rehab Svcs

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$24.73 - $35.56 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Variable

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.