Rehabilitation Technician - Arlington Heights Day Rehab - Full Time

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab•Arlington Heights, IL

17h•Onsite

About The Position

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is a global leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation, dedicated to helping adults and children with severe, complex conditions. Joining their team means contributing to a life-changing mission and an innovative culture that values collaboration, excellence, discovery, and compassion. The organization integrates science and clinical care to achieve better, faster patient outcomes. The Rehabilitation Technician assists patients and the patient care team in preparing for and performing treatment programs, providing basic day care support for significant others, and maintaining department facilities, patient care areas, and equipment in a clean and orderly condition. This role consistently supports the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab's vision, mission, and core values, demonstrating excellence, teamwork, respect, and compassion. The technician is expected to embody core attributes such as Communication, Accountability, Flexibility/Adaptability, Judgment/Problem Solving, Customer Service, and Core Values (Hope, Compassion, Discovery, Collaboration, and Commitment to Excellence) while fulfilling job duties.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent education.
Minimum 1 year of experience as a physical therapy aide, occupational therapy aide, or related health care experience with knowledge of patient care methods procedures and techniques.
Understanding of the growth and development of adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
Communicates effectively using verbal, non-verbal and written communication.
Ability to take ownership for serving the customer, team, and organization for achieving goals and for resolving problems.
Willingly adapts to changing work demands and work environment.
Demonstrates critical thinking skills and makes sound judgments to monitor and respond to patient needs or changes in condition.
Anticipates assesses and addresses the needs of patients, internal and external customers to positively influence the patient/customer experience (directly or indirectly).
Ability to transfer and position patients, consistent with lifting up to 35 lbs.

Responsibilities

Prepares patients for treatments or evaluation, assisting them as necessary to undress and don garments or treatment aids.
Transfers, moves, and ambulates patients to and from department with wheelchair or stretcher.
Assists therapist in direct patient care activities such as sensory stimulation, training programs, gait training.
Assists therapist in patient care during treatment sessions such exercise and weight training programs, hydrotherapy, and gait training.
Conducts therapeutic regime for patients, which includes reinforcing learnings in self-care activities such as feeding, dressing, bathing and memory training.
Observes patients and reports reactions or changes in condition immediately to supervising nurse or therapist.
Fabricates equipment adaptations for patients.
Maintains adaptive equipment inventory including issuing supplies to staff and notifying appropriate personnel of deficiencies.
Maintains clinic area in a neat organized manner and performs infection control procedures including disinfecting equipment.
Maintains food inventory for patient use including shopping for needed supplies, dating, and rotating current supply.
Performs clerical support when needed including reception duties, file maintenance, document distribution, library maintenance and retrieval of medical records.
Clean and maintain SRAlab rental wheelchairs.
Delivers/stores supplies and equipment received from Central Supply.
Performs all other duties that may be assigned in the best interest of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.