Sunrise PTA

Job Details

Job Location:

Apache Healthcare Services - Mesa, AZ 85203

• Assists the physician in evaluating the patient’s level of function.
• Assesses patient’s home environment for safety hazards and architectural barriers, identifying equipment needs.
• Identifies functional problems and establishes goals and a plan of care designed to improve the patient’s functional status (revising as necessary).
• Performs patient tests, measurements, and evaluations, such as range‑of‑motion and manual muscle tests, gait and functional analysis, and body parts measurement, and records and evaluates findings to aid establishing or revising specifics of treatment programs.
• Performs and completes start‑of‑care and ongoing assessments and associated paperwork in accordance with agency policy.
• Periodically reevaluates and upgrades the patient’s program to maximize functional improvement.
• Administers the exercise program utilizing specialized therapeutic exercise techniques and equipment.
• Plans and administers prescribed physical therapy treatment programs for patients to restore function, relieve pain and prevent disability following disease, injury, or loss of body parts.
• Recommends prosthetic/orthotic devices for patients or evaluates their devices and makes minor adjustments or recommends modifications by the prosthetist/orthotist.
• Confers with the family, referring physician, and other agency professional staff to obtain information to promote coordinated, efficient, and quality patient care.
• Performs and submits required documentation of patient’s evaluations, plan of care, clinical notes, and progress reports, summaries along with changes in orders.
• All patient visit notes must be turned in the next scheduled workday, not to exceed forty‑eight (48) hours.

Education and Experience:

Must be a graduate from an accredited Physical Therapy program and licensed by the state of Arizona.