Job description:

Physical therapist assistant (PTA) 

Employer details: Crystal Physio Inc

Job details

• Location: 3024 Hurontario Street suite G-4 Mississauga, ON L5B 4M4
• Salary: 23.00 hourly / 30 to 40 hours per Week
• Terms of employment: Permanent employment, Full time
• Flexible Hours, Shift
• Start date: Starts as soon as possible
• Vacancies: 1 vacancy

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• College/CEGEP

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Responsibilities

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 during assessment of patients and carry out treatment programs and develop materials for use with patients
• 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
• Set up and dismantle equipment
• Administer evaluative tests and procedures
• Apply and adjust casts, splints and bandages
• Clean and maintain equipment
• Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
• Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
• Record vital signs
• Maintain prescription records and inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
• 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
• Collect statistics
• Maintain clinical and progress reports
• Confer with other health professionals
• Maintain inventory of equipment
• Document patient rehabilitation progress
• Perform various administrative functions
• Take patients' general medical and ophthalmic history
• Teach and/or supervise exercises to patients
• Organize and maintain inventory

Additional information

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
• Manual dexterity
• Attention to detail
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Sound discrimination
• Walking

Personal suitability

• Punctuality
• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Interpersonal awareness
• Judgement
• Accurate
• Dependability
• Excellent written communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Creativity

Employment groups 

This employer promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including those self-identifying as a member of these groups: Indigenous people, Persons with disabilities, Newcomers to Canada, Mature workers, Visible minorities, Youth

Who can apply to this job?

The employer accepts applications from:

• Canadian citizens and permanent or temporary residents of Canada.
• Other candidates with or without a valid Canadian work permit.

How to apply

By email

crystalphysiorecruitment@gmail.com