Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA)

Bedrock Healthcare•Beaver Dam, WI

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Beaver Dam Health Care Center is recruiting a Physical Therapy Assistant to treat residents with impaired ability to function independently due to disease processes. The assistant provides and documents care under the supervision of a physical therapist and participates in interdisciplinary team meetings as required. The position focuses on helping residents maintain or attain the highest level of function possible within their physical abilities, while providing care in a respectful, compassionate, and professional environment. The role follows physicians’ orders and the physical therapist’s directions, provides treatments and adaptive equipment, and uses preventative measures to help prevent functional decline. The assistant maintains timely, accurate resident reports and protects residents’ safety, rights, privacy, and confidential information. The role also requires adherence to facility and corporate policies, infection-control and safety procedures, and professional standards, along with dependable attendance and cooperation with residents, families, staff, physicians, consultants, and other service providers.

Requirements

Associate degree from an accredited Physical Therapy Assistant Program.
Active Physical Therapy Assistant license.
Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common medical information.
Ability to communicate effectively with residents, their families, and other healthcare professionals, and present information to a supervisor.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions.
Ability to perform the essential physical and intellectual duties of the job.

Responsibilities

Follow physicians’ orders for resident care and the physical therapist’s directions.
Provide appropriate treatment to help residents maintain or attain the highest level of function possible within their physical abilities.
Provide treatments, preventative measures, and adaptive equipment to help prevent decline in residents’ function.
Maintain timely and accurate resident reports as required by regulatory agencies and third-party payers.
Observe infection-control procedures and ensure the safety of residents under supervision.
Work cooperatively with residents, residents’ representatives, facility staff, physicians, consultants, and ancillary service providers.
Follow facility policies and procedures, safety policies, Residents’ Rights policies, and employee handbook guidelines.
Adhere to the Corporate Compliance Program Code of Conduct and policies, and attend required compliance in-service training.
Comply with facility policies against discrimination and sexual harassment.
Protect the privacy of residents’ Protected Health Information and the confidentiality and security of resident and facility information.
Maintain clean, neat attire and a professional appearance.
Report to work as scheduled and demonstrate dependability and punctuality.
Accept assigned duties cooperatively and perform duties effectively, promptly, and professionally.
Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings as required.
Perform other related duties as directed by the supervisor.