PTA part time

SEM Haven • Milford, OH

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Physical Therapist Assistant works cooperatively and respectfully with residents, coworkers, families, visitors, and volunteers to create a positive and pleasant environment in the home. He or she provides medically related therapy services to assure that each resident can attain or maintain his/her highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being with resident choice and comfort always a priority. All services must be in accordance with facility policies and procedures, quality improvement guidelines, and local, state, and federal regulations. The Physical Therapist Assistant is a participant in resident-centered care and team-based management and is involved in daily life activities in his or her assigned household. The focus of SEM Haven is to be a resident-centered organization based on resident choice. SEM Haven is a family, which includes residents and staff, as well as resident families and staff families. The final goal is to provide support for each of its members. Your role as a staff member is to provide the residents of SEM Haven with the support, friendship, and most importantly, kindness, so they may live as independently as they wish to in their homes. The most important function of your position is that you treat everyone you come into contact with as a person deserving respect. No person is any more or less important than any other and all should be treated in this manner. As a member of a family team, you have the additional responsibility to perform whatever tasks are necessary to maintain life on the household. These tasks will be within your knowledge and training, i.e., assist with food preparation/serving; picking up clutter, removing trash, cleaning spills; transporting residents; attending household meetings/learning circles and fulfilling simple requests for residents.

Requirements

• Associate degree as required for initial professional preparation in Physical Therapist Assistant Program.
• One year minimum health care experience, preferably in long-term care.
• Licensed Physical Therapist Assistant in the state of Ohio.
• Freedom from illegal use of drugs and freedom from use and effects of use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace is essential.
• Must be able to speak, read & write the English language in an understandable manner.
• Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of position can be fully met.

Nice To Haves

• Patience
• Listening skills
• Verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Humor – interpersonal skills
• Respect for all people: residents, co-workers, family members, doctors, volunteers, and anyone who visits our home.
• Respect for possessions – keeping living and work areas clean, orderly and presentable at all times as if company is on the way.
• Flexibility – willingness to modify job duties for the overall good of the home and our residents.

Responsibilities

• Provides medically related therapy services to assure that each resident can attain or maintain his/her highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being with resident choice and comfort always a priority.
• Participates in resident-centered care and team-based management.
• Is involved in daily life activities in his or her assigned household.
• Provides residents with support, friendship, and kindness.
• Performs whatever tasks are necessary to maintain life on the household within knowledge and training (e.g., assist with food preparation/serving; picking up clutter, removing trash, cleaning spills; transporting residents; attending household meetings/learning circles and fulfilling simple requests for residents).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree