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- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
- Private practice
- 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
- 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
- MS Excel
- MS Office
- MS Word
- Physiotherapy
- Criminal record check
- 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
- Punctuality
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
physiotherapy assistant - Surrey, Canada - Pure Life Physiotherapy & Health Centre
