Acute Therapy Tech

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* POSITION OVERVIEW:

** The role of a
** Therapy Tech
** assists with quality patient care by providing support to physical, occupational, and speech therapists on the acute, outpatient, and inpatient rehabilitation teams.  This includes patient care assistance with close supervision of the therapist or other licensed staff, clerical, clean-up of the department, ordering supplies, and general organizational assistance. Caregiver will show initiative in assisting department personnel in completing tasks and will perform other duties as assigned.  

Supports safe patient handling program rles Health System by utilizing the safe patient handling equipment for transfers, positioning and patient care.
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** Must have necessary requisites for valid Oregon driver's license and ability to meet St. Charles Health System driving requirements. Ability to travel to business functions/trainings/meetings and all St. Charles Health System worksites.
** Preferred**:
Minimum of 1-year rehabilitative services experience or equivalent education. Previous patient care environment experience helpful.

** Occasionally (25%):
** Bending, stooping/kneeling/crouching, reaching overhead, grasping/squeezing, ability to hear whispered speech level.

St. Charles Health System is a private, nonprofit organization, dedicated to providing high-quality care and the latest in health care technology to the communities it serves. Headquartered in Bend, Ore., St. Charles is an integrated delivery system, with a strong focus on population health, that provides a full range of evidence-based health care services within a 32,000-square-mile area in Central and Eastern Oregon.
The health system owns and operates a trauma level II, tertiary referral center in Bend, a trauma level III, type B rural hospital in Redmond, and trauma level IV critical access hospitals in both Prineville and Madras. As the largest employer in Central Oregon, St. Charles Health System and St. Charles Medical Group care for our communities in more than two dozen outpatient clinics and in more than 20 specialty areas of medicine.

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