Physical Therapy Assistant-Dartmouth

Physical Therapy Assistant-Dartmouth
Location

US-MA-Dartmouth

Job ID
8261

# Positions
1

Category
Professionals
Overview

About us:
Fallon Health is a company that cares. We prioritize our members--always-making sure they get the care they need and deserve. Founded in 1977 in Worcester, Massachusetts, we deliver equitable, high-quality coordinated care and are continually rated among the nation's top health plans for member experience, service, and clinical quality.
Fallon Health's Summit ElderCare is a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly-PACE for short. PACE, an alternative to nursing home care, is a program that helps people 55 and older continue living safely at home. At Fallon Health, we believe our individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression and unique capabilities allow us to better serve our members. We embrace and encourage differences in age, race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, socio-economic status and other characteristics that make people unique.
Today, guided by our mission of improving health and inspiring hope, we strive to be the leading provider of government-sponsored health insurance programs-including Medicare, Medicaid, and PACE- in the region.
Brief summary of purpose: Under general supervision of the Clinical Manager and Primary Therapist provides and documents the full range of Physical Therapy assistant treatments and tests to all categories of patients, supervises supportive personnel and participates in educational services. Acts as a clinical instructor and is responsible for teaching inter-department continuing education/in-services.

Responsibilities

Primary job responsibilities:
Under the supervision of Physical Therapist performs processes involved in the delivery of age-appropriate patient care. Provides care appropriate to the patient population served. Completes all required competency assessments.
Identifies, reports and documents the need for modification of treatment techniques. Determines reports and documents possible cause(s) of change in patient's physical/mental status, tolerance to treatment, unanticipated rate of progress. Determines appropriate modifications.
Identifies, reports and documents acute changes in patient physiological status. Communicates acute changes in patient status to Physical Therapist. Modifies treatment as appropriate within plan of care.
Implements appropriate treatment techniques as specified in therapist plan of care. Implements all treatment procedures as necessary for specific... For full info follow application link.

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