physiotherapist assistant (PTA)
- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 37.5 hours per week
- Education : College / CEGEP
- Experience : 7 months to less than 1 year
Tasks
- Administer tests using equipment, instruct patients on test procedures and record results, and monitor, check and calibrate auditory equipment
- Assess patients' physical abilities
- Assist health care professionals
- Carry out treatment programs, under the direction of physiotherapists and / or occupational therapists, to rehabilitate patients with various injuries or disabilities
- Examine adult clients to assess hearing loss, recommend type of hearing instrument, take earmold impressions and perform follow-up examinations and readjustments
- Position patients for treatments by chiropractor or machine
- Set up and dismantle equipment
- Supervise technical and support staff
- Administer evaluative tests and procedures
- Apply and adjust casts, splints and bandages
- Clean and maintain equipment
- Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
- Hire and train staff
- Lay out surgical instruments
- Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
- Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
- Record information about donors
- Record vital signs
- Assist chiropractor with patient health education
- Clean and dress wounds
- Label and process donated blood
- Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
- Order and purchase equipment
- Plan physiotherapy programs
- Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens
- Administer budget
- Process claims such as health insurance or workers compensation
- Provide post donation care and donor reaction care
- Remove casts, sutures and pins
- Remove organs and tissue specimens from bodies in morgue as directed by pathologist
- Select appropriate exercises, apparatus and manipulations
- Clean and sew up bodies for release to funeral homes
- Collect statistics
- Maintain clinical and progress reports
- Maintain supplies
- Confer with other health professionals
- Connect treatment machines to patients, as directed by chiropractor
- Maintain inventory of equipment
- Assist chiropractor with physical examinations
- Conduct research in physiotherapy
- Document patient rehabilitation progress
- Perform general clerical duties
- Prepare and maintain cleanliness of collection areas
- Process files and paperwork
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Take earmold impressions and fit and adjust hearing instruments
- Take patients' general medical and ophthalmic history
- Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
- Teach and / or supervise exercises to patients
- Order supplies and equipment
- Organize and maintain inventory
- Monitor donors throughout procedure
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
Personal suitability
- Punctuality
- Client focus
- Judgement
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
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