Home Health Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA)
Contract AssociateJob Overview
All Care Therapies is currently seeking a Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) to join our team in a Home Health setting! We are looking for a clinician to deliver compassionate care to our pediatric patients, contribute to the multidisciplinary team, and collaborate with families to deliver a plan of care.
Responsibilities
- 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 under a licensed physical therapist
- Helps pediatric patients in using supportive devices, such as crutches, canes, and prostheses
- Instructs and counsels pediatric patients by describing therapeutic regimens, giving normal growth and development information, and promoting wellness and health maintenance
- Maintains production objectives by noting current treatment trends and monitoring actual physical therapy services rendered to production objectives
- Documents pediatric patient care services by charting in patient and department records
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading periodicals, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations
- Maintains safe, secure, clean, and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations
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