PT OT Assistant

Built-in 1973, Dignity Health Methodist Hospital of Sacramento is committed to providing daily excellence in health care for residents of Sacramento’s southern suburbs, including the Elk Grove, Wilton, and Galt communities. Methodist Hospital is home to a 158 acute-care bed facility with 1,120 employees, 283 medical staff, and 29 Emergency Department beds. Methodist Hospital also owns and operates Bruceville Terrace – a 171-bed, sub-acute skilled nursing long-term care facility adjacent to the hospital that provides care for the elderly, as well as those requiring extended recoveries. Methodist Hospital is home to the Family Medicine Residency Program, an accredited and nationally recognized program which provides resident physicians with specialty training in primary care family medicine. Together, the hospital and residency program implemented a ground-breaking curriculum addressing the identification, treatment, and assistance of human trafficking victims and created a one-of-a-kind health clinic for victims, the Human Trafficking Medical Home.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Requirements:

• Experience as a physical therapy assistant or occupational therapy assistant.
• Current BLS Certification
• Graduation from an approved Physical Therapy Assistant program or Occupational Therapy Assistant program or successfully passing the equivalency examination and California licensure/eligibility as a physical therapy assistant or eligibility for certification by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc. and a California License, or eligibility, to practice Occupational Therapy.
• Knowledge of current physical therapy or Occupational therapy techniques, standards, principles, and procedures. Human anatomy and physiology with emphasis on musculoskeletal, circulatory, and nervous systems, medical terminology.
• Proper body mechanics, infection control procedures.
• Ability to understand and apply physical therapy or occupational therapy theories as a framework for treatment.
• Develop and implement appropriate patient treatment plan. Complete and maintain records of Physical Therapy or Occupational Therapy observations, treatments, and actions.
• Plan and organize work effectively and efficiently. Develop and maintain a cooperative working relationship with physicians, nursing staff, and other hospital personnel.
• Maintain the confidentiality of medical information.
• Flexibility to work within a changing health care environment.
• Pursue progressive level of expertise by independent study, conferencing education courses, inservice participation etc.
• Fully meet the obligations ofthe Mission and Philosophy of Dignity Health. Flexibility to workwithin a changing health care environment. Pursue progressive level of expertise by independent study, conferencing education courses, in service participation etc.