Physical Therapy Assistant

3 days ago


Pittsburg, Kansas, United States Minds Matter, LLC Full time
About Minds Matter, LLC

Minds Matter, LLC is a pioneering organization dedicated to empowering individuals with brain injuries to live independently and thrive in their communities. Our innovative approach focuses on holistic, person-directed care, where consumers work with a multidisciplinary team of experts to achieve their goals.

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Physical Therapy Assistant to join our team. As a Physical Therapy Assistant, you will play a vital role in helping individuals with brain injuries regain their motor functioning and mobility. Through a rehabilitation approach, you will assess and treat consumers to enable them to perform daily activities and prevent conditions associated with loss of mobility.

Responsibilities
  • Implement Minds Matter, LLC's philosophical principles in all aspects of service delivery.
  • Assist consumers in identifying their needs and developing compensation techniques to accommodate the consequences of their brain injury.
  • Contribute to evaluations that address consumers' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine best methods and strategies for therapies.
  • Evaluate and recommend changes to the supervising Physical Therapist in consumers' work or living environments that are consistent with their needs.
  • Integrate employment, educational, and independent living goals into therapy.
  • Collaborate with consumers and other professional staff to determine when goals are being met.
  • Attend team meetings and assist consumers in goal setting.
  • Provide services only as designated on each individual consumer's authorized plan of care.
  • Assist with the selection and utilization of adaptive equipment and/or home modifications, as well as processes for home and community environment.
  • Work directly with consumers to improve skills in all aspects of their life goals.
  • Document sessions with the consumer the day of the service and is goal driven, concise, factual, and clear.
  • Educate families about the consequences of brain injury and communicate with them about goals and progress as needed.
  • Attend all trainings and workshops to maintain ability to provide the most up to date, effective and evidence-based practice.
  • Establish and maintain a professional rapport with all consumers, co-workers, referral agents, and representatives of other community agencies and services.
  • Promote public relations throughout the agency and community for the program.
  • Demonstrate a willingness to serve on agency and interagency task groups as requested.
  • Work under close direction of the assigned supervising therapist.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by supervisors.
  • Provide care and maintenance for Minds Matter LLC issued iPad and iPhone.
  • Maintain confidentiality of protected health information in accordance with HIPAA regulations.
  • Possibly serve as a consumer's team lead, which entails being accountable for updating goal plans and team meeting history forms during the team meetings with progress, effectiveness of strategies, concerns, task assignments to team members, or changes to goals.
Qualifications and Skills
  • Ability to teach skills to individuals with disabilities.
  • High degree of sensitivity towards all people.
  • Ability to deal professionally with persons on a one-to-one basis.
  • Ability to effectively plan, coordinate, and assist with all aspects of a consumer's life.
  • Excellent time management skills, often changing from one task to another without loss of efficiency or composure.
  • Creativity.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to meet deadlines.
  • Basic to moderate technology skills, as our electronic medical record system is run on an iPad.
Requirements
  • Some lifting required for consumers with physical needs.
  • Requires good verbal skills and listening ability.
  • Must be able to read and write.
  • Basic iPad proficiency.
  • Have reliable transportation.
  • Check voicemail and email daily.
Measurement of Success
  • Feedback by constituents including consumers, families, and other agencies.
  • Ability to relate to and work with all consumers effectively.
  • Degree of confidence displayed in the execution of responsibilities.
  • Positive and professional relationships with all internal and external contacts.
Total Compensation Package
  • In addition to competitive pay, we offer a 401K, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), free CEUs, health insurance, dental insurance, and vision coverage to qualified employees, and generous accrual of paid time off.
  • What Minds Matter Therapists Appreciate: the ability to set their own hours and schedule, a work-life balance where they aren't hounded about productivity, the ability to find creative solutions to life's challenges, and a supportive work environment.
  • Do meaningful work. With Minds Matter, your work makes an impact on a consumer's life from your very first session. Our therapy is applied in an individual's home and/or community - the most natural setting possible. As a result of this, our outcomes are 4-5x greater than that of other brain injury rehabilitation programs.


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