LPTA

Requirements

• Current Alabama PTA/OTA licensure. Maintain active status with license in good standing with licensing agency.
• Must be able to read, write legibly, speak and comprehend English.
• PT/OTHeavy work. Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
• Physical presence onsite is essential.

Qualifications

• Maintain clinical and professional competency.
• Completes all documentation requirements in the established time frame.
• Communicates to therapist as needed related to patient needs/goals.
• Shares experience by mentoring students, new employees, volunteers and presenting in services.
• Maintains involvement in department and hospital activities.
• Provides feedback to the Manager.
• Affixes to all DCH Health System policies and procedures.

Skills

• Collaborates and coordinates patients care plans with patient/family and other care providers.
• Performs therapeutic procedures for clients as outlined in patient’s plan of care.
• Participates in patient/family teaching.
• Attends in service programs and departmental or hospital meetings.
• Assists in departmental planning, staff training, performance improvement, and clinical service development.
• Assists with departmental productivity by fulfilling individual work responsibilities and reporting significant variances in patient volume that may require manager adjustments to staffing.

Benefits

• Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation.
• Performs compliance requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Working Conditions

• Must be able to analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
• Must be able to enter patient or treatment data into computers.
• Must be able to collaborate with others to plan or provide treatment.
• Must have normal vision and hearing or correctable to normal.
• Must be careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Must be reliable, responsible, dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Must be pleasant with others on the job and display good nature, cooperative attitude.
• Must be able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing.
• Must be able to exert almost continual physical effort such as pushing, pulling, bending, twisting, walking, running, kneeling, crouching, stooping, crawling, climbing, balancing, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, repetitive motion, standing, and/or using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Exposure to human bodily fluids, disease, infection and hazardous materials may occur. Common protective or safety equipment may be required in job task.