physiotherapist assistant - Brampton, Canada - 13585921 CANADA INC.

    13585921 CANADA INC.
    13585921 CANADA INC. Brampton, Canada

    2 weeks ago

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    Description
    • Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
    • Langue de travail: Anglais
    • Heures de travail: 37.5 hours per week
    • Education:
    • Expérience:
    • Education

    • College/CEGEP
    • 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
    • Examine adult clients to assess hearing loss, recommend type of hearing instrument, take earmold impressions and perform follow-up examinations and readjustments
    • Operate ophthalmic testing and measuring instruments, record test results and administer eye drops, ointments and medications as directed by ophthalmologists
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Monitor donors throughout procedure
    • 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
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities

    • Fast-paced environment
    • Physically demanding
    • Work under pressure
    • Repetitive tasks
    • Personal suitability

    • Punctuality
    • Client focus
    • Judgement
    • Flexibility
    • Organized
    • Reliability
    • Experience

    • 7 months to less than 1 year