physiotherapy assistant

at  Pure Life Physiotherapy Health Centre

• Durée de l’emploi: Permanent
• Langue de travail: Anglais
• Heures de travail: 35 to 40 hours per week
• Education:
• Expérience:

EDUCATION

• College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years

COMPUTER AND TECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE

• MS Excel
• MS Office
• MS Word

WORK CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES

• Fast-paced environment
• Physically demanding
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Work under pressure
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Repetitive tasks
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Attention to detail
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Walking

EXPERIENCE

• 2 years to less than 3 years

• 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
• Supervise technical and support staff
• Apply and adjust casts, splints and bandages
• Clean and maintain equipment
• Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
• Lay out surgical instruments
• Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
• Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
• Plan physiotherapy programs
• Process claims such as health insurance or workers compensation
• Select appropriate exercises, apparatus and manipulations
• Maintain clinical and progress reports
• Maintain supplies
• Confer with other health professionals
• Maintain inventory of equipment
• Conduct research in physiotherapy
• Perform general clerical duties
• Prepare and maintain cleanliness of collection areas
• Process files and paperwork
• Schedule and confirm appointments
• 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