Massage Therapist- Contractor

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Provides eligible tribal members up to two massages per month with a maximum of two hours per session (including 1.5 hours for massage and 30 minutes for sanitizing area and completing chart notes) Contractor will coordinate service times with the Medical Director and/or Director of Health & Social Services. Schedules may be adjusted due to holidays, cultural events, illness or office availability.
2. Contractor may provide up to twenty-four (24) hours per week and not to exceed 1,082 hours in total.
3. Provide massage therapy service for patients using professional judgment and experience, and in a clinically sound manner.
4. Maintain Timely and appropriate documentation of clinical records for all patients seen, in accordance to Health Center policies and procedures. Contractor and other Health Center services.
5. Communicate with Health Center clinical staff regarding clinical concerns to ensure continuity and coordination of care between Contractor and other Health Center services.
6. Ensure that Contractor's recommendations for outside referrals go through the Sandia Health Center's Business Office with proper documentation.

Adhere to the following Covid-19 protocols:

• If you have Covid-19 symptoms, cancel your clinic and get tested.
• Return to work only after a negative test, when feeling better and fever-free for 24 hours.
• If you test positive, notify the Medical Director of any potential exposures and isolate according to CDC guidelines.
• Masks and N-95 respirators are available and may be required based on patient condition, community spread, or if you have cold symptoms even with a negative Covid-19 test.

Education and Experience

Required:

1. High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent.
2. Must be 18 years of age.
3. Two years experience delivering the Essential Duties and Responsibilities of the role.

License/Certifications/Registrations

Required before employment date:

1. State of New Mexico Massage Therapist License.
2. Must be able to successfully pass a 101.630 background investigation.
3. Will require a pre-employment and random drug screening.

Physical Requirements/Working Conditions

The following selected physical activities are required to perform the essential functions of this position

Physical Requirement

Description

Balancing

Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

Climbing

Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.

Crawling

Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.

Crouching

Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

Feeling

Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Finger Dexterity

Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

Grasping

Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Hearing

Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Kneeling

Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

Lifting

Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.

Pulling

Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Pushing

Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.

Reaching

Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Seeing

The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye.

Walking

Job requirements include, in the performance of duties, walking throughout the work area, on various work surfaces throughout internal or external locations.

Sitting

Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Standing

Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Stooping

Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.

Talking

Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

List Working Conditions Required:

1. Work is performed indoors and outdoors. Outside work is subject to temperature extremes and inclement weather conditions.

2. Work hours subject to change with overtime work required.

3. Subject to hazards which may cause personal bodily harm; smoke; diseases; cuts bruises, burns, common cold, influenza, dust, odors and elevated noise levels.

4. Tasks may be performed on uneven, inclined, hard and soft carpeted floors, cement structures and surfaces.

5. Duties may involve walking, standing for long periods of time, sitting and crouching.

6. Specific required movements include the following:

a. Trunk- bend, twist, rotate, push, pull, carry.

b. Arms reach, carry, lift, twist, and rotate.

c. Legs lift, push, pull, twist, and rotate.

d. Hands Grasp, manipulate bilateral coordination, hand and eye coordination, and overall and finger dexterity.

The content of this job description does not restrict managements right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

The job description reflects the assignment of the essential functions of the current position but does not prescribe or restrict tasks that may be assigned. The essential functions are specified but are subject to change at any time for various reasons, including management discretion.

The Pueblo of Sandia reserves the right to make changes to the job description whenever necessary.

Selected candidates must submit to and pass a pre-employment drug and alcohol screening as part of the pre-employment process. Drug and alcohol screening will continue through post-hire testing to be conducted by a third-party random number generator. Selected candidates must submit to and pass a criminal background screening as part of the pre-employment process.

The Pueblo of Sandia is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.