JOB SUMMARY: Provides high quality, comprehensive therapeutic direct and indirect care for the patient, which is supportive of the care given by the Physical/Occupational Therapy Department.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: High school diploma or GED equivalent. One-year experience with patients preferred. Two years college with classes in anatomy, exercise physiology or health and sports science preferred.
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: CPR Certification.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Assists with patient care treatment under the supervision of a licensed physical or occupational therapist to meet the goals and needs of the patient.
- Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines.
- Communicates in a professional manner with patients, physicians, and staff.
- Performs various administrative, inventory, and organizational duties to meet the needs of the department.
- Promotes professional growth and provides community education and/or committee representation.
- Maintains safe and clean treatment areas.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ability to communicate professionally with therapist and other health professionals
- Ability to communicate with patients of all age groups
- Experience with computer processing
- Demonstrates courteous and respectful communication skills
- Demonstrates flexibility with an ever-changing schedule
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Clean, well-lit comfortable climate, however, occasional conditions with high moisture content
- Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances
- Subject to many interruptions and occasionally handles emergency or crises situations
- Possible exposure to infectious or contagious diseases and unpleasant patient elements
- Frequent exposure to bloodborne pathogens and airborne pathogens
- Subject to electro-mechanical hazards
- Exposure to chemicals used in cleaning
- Moderate noise environment
- Required personal protective equipment
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
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