Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant

**Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant**

_Are you looking for a rewarding career in an award-winning healthcare system? We're looking for a qualified Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant like you to join our Texas Health family._

**Work location:** Texas Health Arlington Memorial 800 W. Randol Mill Road in Arlington, TX 76012

**Work hours: Full Time (40hours)**

**Acute Care Physical Therapy Department Highlights**

* Ongoing rotation through various patient types

* Joint Commission Certified Stroke Center of Excellence

* Strong clinical education program

* Experienced team

**Here's What You Need**

· Associate's Degree completion of Physical Therapist Assistant program Required

· 1 year Inpatient Acute Care Experience Preferred

· PTA - Physical Therapist Assistant Texas Physical Therapy Assistant License Upon Hire Required And

+ BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly Required

**What You Will Do**

Patient Assessment/Plan of Care

· Obtain/verify physician order for therapy and validate for appropriateness.

· Review available medical records and obtain pertinent medical history from therapist documentation and patient report.

· Ensure that patient has given informed consent to treatment.

· Identify problems that need further assessment by therapist and possible change to treatment plan.

· Identify patient accomplishment of goals and report to therapist that goals need to be updated or revised.

· Follow plan for care, or appropriate therapeutic intervention to achieve stated goals.

· Participate in discharge planning for patient.

· Demonstrates competence in the performance of individualized care based on age specific needs.

Patient Treatment

· Uses therapeutic treatment techniques appropriate to patient age and desire for treatment.

· Performs treatment procedures that are within the scope of the professional license.

· Performs/delegates technical procedures appropriately and safely.

· Utilizes a variety of treatment techniques to achieve goals, if necessary.

· Determine patient response to treatment and evaluate progress (reassessment).

· Educates patient and family through instruction, demonstration, or appropriate handouts in treatment plan, safety issues, home programs/self management and assistive equipment.

· Patient safety maintained throughout treatment

· Communicates with physicians and other healthcare personnel as appropriate regarding patient care issues

· Demonstrates competence in the performance of age appropriate patient treatment and individualizes care based on age specific needs.

· Patient goals achieved within established time frames

· Patient/family demonstrates understanding of treatment

· Equipment operated in a safe manner

· Emergency situations responded to efficiently and effectively

· Appropriate infection control measures used with each patient

· Two patient identifiers used when providing patient care

· Cultural/religious beliefs are considered in delivery of care. Identifies physiologic and developmental normal for patient's age.

· Speaks distinctly if patient has hearing loss.

· Adult-provides information and instruction at a level of understanding appropriate to comprehension level of the patient.

· Adolescents-encourages questions regarding fears, included in care decisions with involvement of parents.

· Elderly-entity specific competency

· Pediatric-entity specific competency

Accountability

· Utilizes available resources (equipment, support personnel, educational resources) to maximize efficiency and productivity and to meet personal developmental needs

· Participates in orientation and training of less experienced staff, students, volunteers and observers

· Meets established productivity targets

· Represents department in a positive manner to hospital/system/community

· Completes assigned work within scheduled hours and offers assistance to others to ensure departmental work is accomplished

· Seeks assistance/supervision/consultation as needed and reports to supervisor any problems and/or solutions regarding delivery of patient care

· Willing to be cross-trained to treat any diagnosis or level of care

· Participates in continuous improvement activities and/or teams

· Demonstrates commitment to the maintenance of a clean, safe work environment that is compliant with departmental, hospital and regulatory agency requirements

· Works in partnership with peers, other disciplines, and departmental personnel

· As required, participates appropriately in departmental safety drills / emergency procedures

· Maintains acceptable level of customer satisfaction from patients, physicians, coworkers and other department

Documentation

· Documents all aspects of assessment and plan of care in accordance with departmental, TJC, Medicare, and other applicable regulatory guidelines.

· Accurately submits patient charges and records procedures according to departmental policy.

· Documents assessments of education needs, education provided, and patient understanding of education provided in accordance with departmental, TJC, Medicare, and other applicable regulatory guidelines.

· Completes discharge summary for each patient in accordance with departmental, TJC, Medicare, and other applicable regulatory guidelines.

· All documentation is completed within established time frame.

· Accurate timely documentation and reporting of unusual occurrences, on the job injuries, and medical device malfunctioning.

· Completes required documentation tools for outpatients and for specialty units/programs (i.e. Lysholme, MDS, staffing reports, etc.)

Other Significant Activities in Addition to Job Responsibilities/Competencies

· Participates in strategies to meet business initiatives and unit/team, program, and department specific goals and targets

Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, a 369-bed acute-care, full-service medical center has been serving Arlington and the surrounding communities since 1958. Hospital services include comprehensive cardiac care, women's services, neurosciences, cancer services, orthopedics, emergency services and an advanced imaging center. Texas Health Arlington Memorial has over 1,600 employees, 250 volunteers and 630 physicians on its medical staff. We invite you to join us in furthering your career and our accomplishments and philosophy of excellence. For more information, visit TexasHealth.org/Arlington.

At Texas Health, our people make this a great place to work every day. Our inclusive, supportive, people-first, excellence-driven culture make THPG a great place to work.

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+ 2021 FORTUNE Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For®" (7th year in a row)

+ Becker's Healthcare "150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare" (4 years running)

+ "America's Best Employers for Diversity" list by Forbes

+ A "100 Best Workplaces for Millennials" by Fortune and Great Place to Work®

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