Lead Physical Therapy Technician - Surprise (Full-Time)

Lead Physical Therapy Technician - Surprise (Full-Time)

Spooner Surprise - Surprise, AZ 85374

Overview

Salary Range $15.75 - $17.00 Hourly Position Type Technician Job Shift Full Time Education Level High School Category Health Care

Description

Are you a team focused, high-energy, engaging individual? Do you feel comfortable with being a core team member and ensuring an exceptional experience for team members and other stakeholders? Do you want to do your part to elevate the physical therapy profession? Do you want to learn from the best in the industry?

At Spooner, Arizona's largest physical therapy private practice, we are most proud of our culture of excellence that is founded on our core values. Spooner has been helping our communities achieve health through movement for over 35 years, and we continue to grow every year. If you are looking to join a company where you can build a career, Spooner is the place for you!

Medical Coverage & Other Benefits

Spooner's award-winning medical coverage is dedicated to ensuring our employees have access to healthcare and receive the right care, at the right time, with the right provider. Spooner employees on our medical coverage enjoy low premiums, $500 individual and $1,000 family deductibles, no cost expert physical and hand therapy, along with access to a direct primary care team dedicated to keeping our team and their family members healthy. Other amazing benefits you can receive here at Spooner are:

• Student loan repayment program
• Proactive Health Management Plan
• Dental, vision, life, and other voluntary insurances
• Paid time off and holiday pay
• Generous continuing education funds
• 401(k) matching
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee referral bonus
• Many other benefits to help keep you happy and healthy!

Qualifications

What You'll be Doing

• Train and mentor new therapy technicians.
• Participate in staff meetings to enhance the learning and team environment.
• Participate and assist in planning of technician meetings.
• Coordinate therapy technician schedules, including time off requests.
• Instruct, motivate, and assist patients to learn and improve functional activities such as perambulation, transfer, ambulation, and daily-living activities.
• Safeguard, motivate, and assist patients practicing exercises and functional activities under direction of professional staff. Will be required to demonstrate correct activity form or function.
• Observe patients during various physical activities designed in the treatment plan, compile progress on patients' response to treatment.
• Effective communication of patient progress and reactions to treatment, to the physical therapist.

Our treatment philosophy is a promise to provide an engaging experience in mind, body, and spirit, and the foundation of our assessment is grounded in the principles of Applied Functional Science (AFS).

What You Can Expect

• A team environment that fosters continuous learning and fun.
• A 6-month onboarding program.

What You Bring to the Role

• High school diploma or GED
• Minimum 18 years of age or older
• Major in Kinesiology, Physical Therapy Technician Certification, prior experience or knowledge as a physical therapy technician, or interest in the field of physical therapy
• Prior experience or knowledge as a physical therapy technician
• CPR certification

About Spooner

Spooner is a place for professionals with a growth mindset who want to push themselves to achieve excellence. Spooner began with a vision of disrupting the status quo of healthcare, and to accelerate the use of physical and occupational therapists as primary care musculoskeletal experts.

This is not your common workplace. Fun and excellence go hand-in-hand at Spooner, and we provide ample opportunities to achieve both. Our commitment to our culture-first environment is evident in everything we do, and we are always looking for team members to strengthen and cultivate it!

We promise to help you achieve excellence. We will help you in developing the skills required to succeed. We will help you accelerate your career.