Home Health: Physical Therapist Assistant, PTA

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we've been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That's where our people come in - from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace - earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 11 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare - but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark's full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South - this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you - let's get you hired.

Salary: Hourly + Pay Per Visit (PPV) Therapy Visits
Service Area: North Central (coverage area: Golden Valley, Robbinsdale, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Anoka, Coon Rapids, Oak Grove & surrounding). Plus mileage reimbursement of .67 cents per mile.

Schedule: Full Time 1.0 FTE , Monday through Friday 8am-5pm

Position Functions and Responsibilities:

• Provides direct physical therapy according to directions of a qualified physical therapist and in accordance with the physician's plan of care and as defined in the state Physical Therapy Practice Act.
• Treats client to relieve pain, develop or restore function, and maintain maximum performance.
• Directs and aids clients in active and passive therapeutic exercises, muscle reeducation, gait and functional training, transfer activities and prosthetic training.
• Utilizes physical agents, including, but not be limited to heat, cold, water, light, electricity, ultrasound and massage.
• Observes and reports to the physical therapist and the organization personnel the client's reaction to treatment and any changes in client's condition.
• Instructs clients in care and use of wheelchairs, braces, crutches, canes, and prosthetic or orthotic devices.
• Maintains necessary records; clinical notes and conference notes, which will be incorporated into the client's clinical record in prescribed time frames.
• Participates in organization Home Care Team Members meetings and organization Inservice Education Program.
• Additional Client Care & Service Delivery as needed:
  
  
  
  • Provides personal care including:
  • Baths
  • Back rubs
  • Oral hygiene
  • Shampoos
  • Changing bed linen
  • Assisting the client with dressing and undressing
  • Skin care to prevent breakdown
  • Assisting the client with toileting activities
  • Keeping client's living area clean and orderly
  
  
  
  
• Planning and preparing nutritious meals.
• Assisting in feeding the client, if necessary.
• Taking and recording oral, rectal and axillary temperatures, pulse, respiration and blood pressure when ordered (with appropriate completed/demonstrated skills competency).
• Assisting in ambulation and exercise according to the plan of care.
• Performing range of motion and other simple procedures as an extensional therapy service as ordered (with appropriate completed/demonstrated skills competency).
• Assisting client in the self-administration of medication.
• Doing client's laundry, as appropriate.
• Meeting safety needs of clients and using equipment safely and properly (foot stools, side rails, etc.).
• Reporting on client's condition and significant changes to the assigned supervisory nurse.
• Adhering to the organization's documentation and care procedures and standards of personal and professional.
• Lead by example in establishing rapport with clients.
• Ensure positive/professional communication on team.
• Customer service resolution; escalate concerns.
• Honors client confidentiality, rights, privacy, and reporting maltreatment expectations.
• Understands and accepts emotional needs of client.
• Accepts unique client symptoms and behaviors.
• Follow all Emergency and Response Procedures
• Identifies home safety issues and notifies RN Case Manager or Clinical Manager of concerns or issues
• Demonstrates proper procedures: Handling, lifting, transfers
• Injury - Now What? Follows protocols
• Overview of Process, Types of Reports and Forms
• Follow-up Required - Escalating Event
• Other duties as assigned

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises
• Paid Time Off - Vacation Time
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurances
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees
• Referral bonuses
• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

The Physical Therapist Assistant is primarily responsible to provide physical therapy services under the direction of the physical therapist and according to the physician's plan of care.

Qualifications:

• One year of clinical experience as a Physical Therapist Assistant. Community/Home Health experience is preferred.
• Graduate of an accredited physical therapy assistant program with either an Associate's degree in science or applied science that is approved by the American Physical Therapy Association.
• Current and active Physical Therapist Assistant license in the state of Minnesota.
• Verification of COVID vaccine status or receiving an approved exemption.

Contact Lifespark Now!

Donna Vang, Talent Acquisition Specialist
Email: dvang@lifespark.com
Phone: 952-955-7862
Book a time to Chat: Lifespark - Donna (office365.com)

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer's premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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