Physical Therapist Assistant

Physical Therapy Assistant

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Training & development
• Vision insurance

Per Washington State requirements, this is a licensed position from an accredited PTA program. If you currently do not possess a PTA license, please let us know when you expected graduation date and completion of the boards would be. Qualified applicants may be eligible for sign-on or relocation bonus!

Benefits/Perks:

• Health insurance
• Generous continuing education
• Competitive pay & bonus structure
• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible schedule
• Health savings account
• Retirement plan
• Non-corporate feel - single owner, single clinic, very willing to hear from employees to make changes, strong family feel/environment.
• Weekly meetings with staff to work on skills, tough cases, improve workflows and patient experience
• We use the APTA orthopedic section to help structure our learning and stay current with evidence based practice and latest research. We have a clinical lead PT that helps assimilate the information and bring it to meetings. We use APTA OCS prep resources to make sure we are staying excellent without our assessment and skills and clinical reasoning.

Qualifications:

• CPR Certification
• Physical Therapy Assistant License (required)
• We seek someone who: 1. Values and focuses on the person as a whole and understands that all patients are people first. 2. Excels at communication & loves collaboration/teamwork & learning 3. Is seeking to push themselves as a provider to become the best professional version of themselves. 4. Loves learning and seeks professional growth.

Job Summary:

Are you looking for: 1. A place that focuses on the patient experience? We provide one-on-one care by the PT/PTA for 40 minutes for follow-ups and 60 min evals. You treat in teams: patient works with one PT and one PTA during plan of care for continuity. 2. Supportive team environment with great support staff to help keep you on time with the use of AI for charting so you can finish notes at time of service? We have weekly staff meetings to go over tough cases, practice skills, or evidence based practice items, and ideas to improve work flow and patient and staff experiences. 3. Or how about coaching and learning opportunities? If you want to be challenged and be the best version of yourself professionally and personally we can provide that accountability. We have a generous continuing education package and you will have a Medbridge subscription as well as treating one on one allows you time to go ask a peer for some insight with the patient there. We will support your vision and ideas for growth and provide resources for your learning. We allow blocking for co treating or learning from other providers on the team. 4. Having an impact on a patient's overall health? Our PTAs perform our wellness services in addition to PT. You develop long-term relationships with patients and they want to continue to work with you to achieve their overall health goals. 5. Ability to meet financial goals? We have a loss rate bonus and an incentive bonus based on Regenerative and Wellness services.

Responsibilities:

• Someone who loves to learn and adapts to change and believes in manual therapy, functional movement, & patient education
• Someone who can build trust with patients quickly and is motivated to improve the relationships with patients
• Someone who values one on one care
• Someone who can & will communicate the value of our cash services to clients - "either you make time for your wellness or you will be forced to take care of your illness"
• Someone who listens and wants to collaborate as a team and values team growth
• Committed to professionalism & growth outside of direct patient care: workshops, screenings, health fairs, team building
• Committed to talking to patients about overall health and promoting our wellness services that align with patient goals/values: personal training, massage, Yoga, Pilates, and weight loss.
• Someone committed to excellent care and time management with the ability to discern how to prioritize tasks

About us: We are an outpatient orthopedic physical therapy clinic in Lacey, WA helping patients to stay active and mobile avoiding surgeries & meds whenever possible. We do have quite a few post-op patients and we commit ourselves to great post-op care as well. Dr. Penrose has done speaking engagements with several of the orthopedic surgeons in town and has interviewed a few on her Podcast "Stay Healthy South Sound." We commit to educating our community via workshops, newspaper articles, free tips reports, blogs, social media posts, podcasts, and free screenings and discovery consult visits. We treat the whole person and offer health and wellness solutions via cash programs like yoga & personal training & pilates and massage therapy and weight loss through low glycemic impact eating. Compensation: $28.00 - $36.00 per hour