What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physical Therapy Technician - Clarkston Medical Group position at McLaren Health Care?
The Physical Therapy Technician supports licensed physical therapists in delivering patient care by assisting with therapeutic exercises, preparing treatment areas, and ensuring a safe, efficient clinical environment. This role plays a key part in helping patients progress through their rehabilitation plans. Assists with clerical duties to maintain efficient operations.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Performs to service excellence standards:
- Responds promptly, professionally and courteously to all customers’ needs.
- Cooperates and communicates effectively with all patients, families and staff.
- Contributes to continuous quality improvement efforts.
- Prepares examining rooms including turning on computer terminals and stocks room with supplies.
- Set up and clean treatment areas before and after patient sessions
- Sanitize equipment and maintain infection control standards
- Maintain inventory of supplies and notify staff of low-stock items
- Ensure equipment is functioning properly
- Organizes forms, paper charts, Generate HEP.
- Works collaboratively with provider to assists in providing care to patients:
- Collect patient’s history, as requested.
- Prepares patient and necessary equipment/supplies for visit.
- Assist patients with prescribed therapeutic exercises under the direction of a licensed Physical Therapist
- Monitor patients during exercises and report concerns or changes to the Physical Therapist
- Escort patients to and from treatment areas and assist with positioning
- Prepare patients for therapy sessions
- With focus on customer service, takes telephone messages from patients, returns messages, and provides information to others as requested/directed.
- Functions collaboratively with all staff to ensure continuity of care.
- Maintains clinician schedule with timely starting of each patient per appointment times.
- May schedule patient appointments as directed.
- Assists and escorts patients as needed to exam rooms and onto/off from exam tables.
- As needed, provides for the age specific needs of the population served according to departmental standards, as evidenced by observation, documentation, and feedback.
- Performs various clerical duties such as photocopying forms, reports, and patient information; typing letters, forms, and labels, etc.
- Organizes time and prioritizes effectively.
- Maintains strict confidentiality related to patient information.
- Regular and punctual attendance.
- Adheres to infection control/safety guidelines and maintains accreditation standards.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Interest in the field of Physical Therapy
Preferred:
- Electronic medical record experience.
- One-year experience working in physical therapy office with multiple providers.
- Previous experience working in a medical office of the same specialty.
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