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About the Role
Altum Health is seeking a Physiotherapy Assistant to support clinicians and clinical services. The role involves ensuring a safe and stocked clinical environment, supervising client treatments, communicating patient progress, and utilizing modalities as prescribed. Administrative support includes data tracking, scheduling, supply management, and data entry.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring all clinical areas are safe, clean, maintained and stocked with appropriate supplies at all times
- Supervising clients during their treatment activities under therapist supervision and ensuring clients perform prescribed activities in an appropriate and safe manner
- Maintaining communication with supervising therapist regarding patient progress
- Using modalities as prescribed by the physiotherapist/occupational therapist
- Maintaining accurate and timely data regarding tracking of clinical visits, maintaining therapist schedules, facilitating supply and small equipment purchases, performing data entry to capture clinical visits and activities, and other support activities
- Performing cross-functional and/or other administrative duties as needed which will ensure that the program functions efficiently daily
Requirements
- Ability to solve problems and seek guidance of supervising staff when appropriate
- Ability to communicate and deal effectively with difficult conversations and situations
- Ability to function within an interdisciplinary team
- Ability to function in a stressful environment while maintaining professional demeanor
- Possesses appropriate and effective written, oral and non-verbal communication with patients, families, colleagues, and insurance carriers (i.e. WSIB and MVA case managers)
- Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.
- All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.
- Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate.
- Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.
Skills
- Knowledge of the equipment and materials used in the provision of PT/OT treatments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent telephone, data entry/computer systems skills and word processing skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Environment (word, excel, outlook)
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
Location
- Krembil Discovery Tower (Toronto Western Hospital)
Work Type
- Permanent Full-Time
Experience Level
- At least one (1) year of relevant experience
Education Level
- Completion of a recognized post-secondary Physiotherapy Assistant/Occupational Therapy Assistant certificate program
Salary/Compensations
- $27.56 - $34.45 per hour
Benefits
- Competitive offer packages
- Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
- Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
- A flexible work environment
- Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
- Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance discounts, on-site gyms, etc.)
About the Company
- Altum Health is a department within the University Health Network with over 300 employees across several sites (Ajax, Barrie, Brampton, Cambridge, Hamilton, Mississauga, Oakville, Oshawa, Toronto, Scarborough, Vaughan and West Park Health Centre).
- We offer a full continuum of prevention, rehabilitation, and health care services to third party payors and individuals, including the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), employers, and insurers.
- At Altum Health, we believe in providing “The Right Care. Always.” by offering client-centered services that address the physical, psychosocial, and behavioral issues related to injury or illness.
- We actively participate in outcomes data collection, analysis and reporting, continuous quality improvement and the education and training of the next generation of health and service professionals.
- Altum Health services prevent and manage acute and chronic injury as well as co-morbid conditions and integrate clients back into the workplace and home life.
- Our services result in positive outcomes and value to our clients and customers.
Equal Opportunity
- UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace.
- Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.
- Applicants need to make their requirements known.