Physical Therapy Assistant- Northeast- Full-Time

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: Use

for headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We need to extract content. The job description includes summary, responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, physical requirements, etc. No explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule given (though Pay Rate Type Hourly, Pay Grade Health-25, Scheduled Weekly Hours 40, Work Shift maybe unspecified). The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state Pay Rate Type Hourly, Pay Grade Health-25, Scheduled Weekly Hours 40. That's pay and schedule info. So we can include Pay and Schedule sections with that info. Benefits not mentioned, so omit. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. No Job ID etc. We need to use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use

  for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: EEO, E-Verify, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Let's parse content: Job Description Summary: The Physical Therapy Assistant assists one or more Physical Therapists in evaluating and providing treatment to help patients recover from injury, disease, surgery, or other ailments. Prepares patients and equipment for therapy and implements treatment plans as instructed, including exercises, stretching maneuvers, hands-on therapy, and equipment. Records patient's reaction to treatment and provides status reports at the end of each treatment. Requires graduation from an accredited physical therapist assistant program. That's summary. Then later: Minimum Training and Education: Graduate of an accredited program of Physical Therapy Assistant and holds a current valid South Carolina license to practice. Required Licensure, Certifications, Registrations: Board Certified by the South Carolina State Board as a Physical Therapy Assistant. Basic Life Support certification through the American Heart Association. Physical Requirements: long list. Additional Job Description Education: Graduation from an accredited Physical Therapy Assistant program. Experience: None. Certification/Licensure: Licensure as a Physical Therapy Assistant by the South Carolina Board of Physical Therapy Examiners. Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification is required. Then a motivational sentence: If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us! (That's maybe fluff but we can keep as prose? It's not boilerplate; it's a statement about culture. Could be considered substantive? Probably keep as part of "About the role" or similar.) We need to decide sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (education, licensure, certifications), Qualifications (maybe same as requirements?), Skills (maybe physical requirements?), Pay, Schedule. We must not create thin sections; better to combine. We could have:

  About the role

  ... summary ...

  Responsibilities

  • Assist Physical Therapists in evaluating and providing treatment to help patients recover from injury, disease, surgery, or other ailments.
  • Prepare patients and equipment for therapy.
  • Implement treatment plans as instructed, including exercises, stretching maneuvers, hands-on therapy, and equipment.
  • Record patient's reaction to treatment and provide status reports at the end of each treatment.

  Requirements

  • Graduation from an accredited physical therapist assistant program.
  • Current valid South Carolina license to practice as a Physical Therapy Assistant.
  • Board certification by the South Carolina State Board as a Physical Therapy Assistant.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers).
  Maybe also include Experience: None. We could add
• No prior experience required.
Physical requirements could be a section: maybe "Physical Requirements" but not in allowed headings list; we could put under "Skills" or "Qualifications". The allowed headings include Skills. So we could put physical requirements under Skills. Thus:

Skills

• Ability to perform job functions while standing, sitting, walking (continuous).
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• . Must not lose detail. We have many physical requirements with frequencies. We need to preserve them exactly as given. Could combine similar but must preserve all detail. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to list each ability with its frequency. We can create a long
  with each ability as
  • . That's okay. We also have Pay and Schedule sections. Pay: Pay Rate Type Hourly, Pay Grade Health-25. So we can put

    Pay Rate: Hourly (Pay Grade Health-25)

    Schedule: Scheduled Weekly Hours 40, Work Shift (not specified?). It says Work Shift Job Description Entity/Organization... Actually there is "Work Shift" but no detail. The posting includes "Scheduled Weekly Hours 40" and "Work Shift" maybe blank. Since we cannot create Schedule section unless posting actually states them. It does state Scheduled Weekly Hours 40. So we can include Schedule: 40 hours per week. Work shift not specified; we could omit that detail if not given. We'll just put "Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40". That's specific. Thus:

    Pay

    Pay Rate: Hourly (Pay Grade Health-25)

    Schedule

    Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

    We should not include Benefits. Now we need to remove boilerplate: EEO, E-Verify, etc. Also remove duplicated lines like the repeated summary. We need to ensure we don't include "If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!" - that's not boilerplate; it's a motivational statement. Could keep as prose under About the role or separate? Probably include in About the role as extra sentence. Now produce HTML fragment. Let's craft:

    About the role

    The Physical Therapy Assistant assists one or more Physical Therapists in evaluating and providing treatment to help patients recover from injury, disease, surgery, or other ailments. Prepares patients and equipment for therapy and implements treatment plans as instructed, including exercises, stretching maneuvers, hands-on therapy, and equipment. Records patient's reaction to treatment and provides status reports at the end of each treatment. Requires graduation from an accredited physical therapist assistant program. If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

    Responsibilities

    • Assist Physical Therapists in evaluating and providing treatment to help patients recover from injury, disease, surgery, or other ailments.
    • Prepare patients and equipment for therapy.
    • Implement treatment plans as instructed, including exercises, stretching maneuvers, hands-on therapy, and equipment.
    • Record patient's reaction to treatment and provide status reports at the end of each treatment.

    Requirements

    • Graduation from an accredited physical therapist assistant program.
    • Current valid South Carolina license to practice as a Physical Therapy Assistant.
    • Board certification by the South Carolina State Board as a Physical Therapy Assistant.
    • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers).
    • No prior experience required.

    Skills

    • Ability to perform job functions while standing. (Continuous)
    • Ability to perform job functions while sitting. (Continuous)
    • Ability to perform job functions while walking. (Continuous)
    • Ability to climb stairs. (Infrequent)
    • Ability to work indoors. (Continuous)
    • Ability to work outside in temperature extremes. (Infrequent)
    • Ability to work from elevated areas. (Frequent)
    • Ability to work in confined/cramped spaces. (Frequent)
    • Ability to perform job functions from kneeling positions. (Infrequent)
    • Ability to bend at the waist. (Continuous)
    • Ability to twist at the waist. (Frequent)
    • Ability to squat and perform job functions. (Frequent)
    • Ability to perform "pinching" operations. (Frequent)
    • Ability to perform gross motor activities with fingers and hands. (Continuous)
    • Ability to perform firm grasping with fingers and hands. (Continuous)
    • Ability to perform fine manipulation with fingers and hands. (Continuous)
    • Ability to reach overhead. (Frequent)
    • Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders. (Continuous)
    • Ability to fully use both legs. (Continuous)
    • Ability to use lower extremities for balance and coordination. (Frequent)
    • Ability to reach in all directions. (Continuous)
    • Ability to lift and carry 50 lbs. unassisted. (Infrequent)
    • Ability to lift/lower objects 50 lbs. from/to floor from/to 36 inches unassisted. (Infrequent)
    • Ability to lift from 36" to overhead 25 lbs. (Infrequent)
    • Ability to exert up to 50 lbs. of force. (Frequent)
    • Examples include: To transfer a 100 lb. patient that can not assist in the transfer requires 50 lbs. of force. For every 100 additional pounds, assistance will be required from another healthcare worker. 20 lbs. of force is needed to push a 400 lb. patient in a wheelchair on carpet. 25 lbs. of force is required to push a stretcher with a patient with one hand.
    • Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes. (Continuous)
    • Ability to see and recognize objects close at hand or at a distance. (Continuous)
    • Ability to match or discriminate between colors. (Continuous)
    • Ability to determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception. (Continuous)
    • Good peripheral vision capabilities. (Continuous)
    • Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction. (Continuous)
    • Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements. (Continuous)
    • Ability to deal effectively with stressful situations. (Continuous)
    • Ability to work rotating shifts. (Frequent)
    • Ability to work overtime as required. (Frequent)
    • Ability to work in a latex safe environment. (Continuous)
    • Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions. (Continuous)
    • (Selected Positions) Ability to maintain good olfactory sensory function. (Continuous)
    • (Selected Positions) Ability to be qualified physically for respirator use, initially and as required. (Continuous)

    Pay

    Pay Rate: Hourly (Pay Grade Health-25)

    Schedule

    Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

    Check for any leftover boilerplate: we removed EEO, E-Verify, etc. Also removed duplicated