Rochelle Community Hospital Hiring For Rehabilitation Technician, Part Time, Days-Evenings M-W-F at Rochelle, IL  Full Time

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Summary of Position:
Rehabilitation Technician assists clinicians with all aspects of patient care in a fast paced work environment. This includes assisting patient and clinicians with exercise, modality setup/breakdown, scheduling of patients, registration and checking in of patients, printing of home exercise programs, answering phone calls, maintaining clean work environment, washing and folding of linens, taking inventory of clinic supplies and placing orders to restock, and any other tasks asked of them to help maintain a clean, safe, and efficient clinical work atmosphere.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Greet and escort patients to treatment area in clinic
• Assist with clinic flow, paperwork, and chart management
• Schedule patients utilizing Epic
• Print home exercise programs under direction of treating therapist
• Access patient medical records for rehabilitation prescription, MRI/Radiology reports, surgical reports, and physician notes when requested by clinician
• Contact physicians to request new prescription or medical records for patient care
• Change pillow cases after each patient
• Wipe down treatment table after each patient
• Fold laundry
• Maintains patient confidentiality
• Assist patients with exercise
• Assist with short-term care to hospital patients who are recovering from an accident, surgery, trauma, or illness
• Setup/position steps, balance boards, weights, Bosu Ball, Swiss Ball, etc.
• Monitor patients during exercise and inform treating therapist of concerns or changes in patient status
• Set up/break down of modalities per clinicians settings and parameters including electrical stimulation, ultrasound, hot/cold packs, and H-wave
• Record temperatures of Hydrocollator, splint pan, and freezer on daily log
• Sanitization of treatment tables and equipment on a daily basis
• Take inventory of clinic supplies and place order after approved by supervisor
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
The following qualifications accurately reflect what is required to satisfactorily function as a Rehabilitation tech:

• Able to complete on the job training
• Ability to effectively present information and answer questions from management, customers, patients and the general public.
• Computer skills adequate to properly access patient records, electronic medical records, and fully utilize Google Drive, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with customer service, exercise/fitness, medical/anatomy course work preferred (Required and preferred education, certifications and experience based on requirements that are job-related and consistent with business necessity – bullet points)

Physical Demands:
The position does typically have the following physical demands:

• Lift 25 pounds floor to waist occasional basis
• Carry 25 pounds on occasional basis 15 feet
• Occasional push/pull of 25 horizontal force pounds
• Frequent walking
• Occasional sitting
• Frequent standing
• Frequent forward reaching
• Occasional above shoulder reaching
• Occasional fine motor coordination
• Frequent simple grasp
• Occasional firm grasp
• Occasional bending and squatting
• Occasional stair climbing
• Occasional kneeling
• Occasionally assist therapist with patient transfers stand by assist to contact guard assist
• Occasional contact guard to stand by assist of patient during ambulation
• Manual dexterity and coordination using one or both hands are required while operating equipment such as computer keyboard, mouse, calculator and similar machines. (The physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting, etc. – bullet points)

Work Environment:
Physical Therapy clinic

Supervisory Functions:
None

 
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected status.