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Agility Orthopedics
Physical Therapy Assistant
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What they do
A Physical Therapy Assistant assists physical therapists to help patients with disabling injuries or conditions improve their range of motion and manage their pain. Helps patients learn exercises and teaches them to use therapeutic equipment. Works in the office of a physical therapist or in a healthcare facility.
$63,647 / year median in Massachusetts
+16% projected growth
Job Description
For more than forty years Agility Orthopedics has been a leading provider of outstanding orthopedic care. Our Orthopedic and physical therapy facilities are located in Stoneham and Malden, Massachusetts. The ideal candidate is a new graduate or experienced Physical Therapist Assistant that is passionate about delivering quality care and working within a multi-disciplinary Orthopedic setting.
Responsibilities:
- Practices in a manner consistent with established legal and professional standards and ethical guidelines
- Provides treatment sessions and carries out plan of care developed by evaluating Physical Therapist.
- Performs interventions safely, effectively, efficiently, fluidly, and in a coordinated and technically competent manner.
- Interventions include, but not limited to, electrotherapeutic modalities, functional training, manual therapy techniques, mechanical traction, therapeutic exercise, neuromuscular re-education, vasopneumatic compression.
- Alerts Physical Therapist when reassessment/re-evaluation is needed based on established timeframes, patient response to treatment, or change in status.
- Documents all progress notes in a thoroughly and timely manner in the patient electronic medical record including subjective notes, objective measures, assessment findings, interventions and plan of care which support appropriate coding and billing.
- Completes all billing processes within regulatory guidelines in timely, accurate, efficient manner.
- Transporting patients to and from treatment areas, lifting and transferring them according to positioning requirements.
- Performs general maintenance within the Physical Therapy Department.