Rehab Aide - Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy

Job Description

Job Description

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

Job Description

The Rehab Aid is responsible for assisting the rehabilitation staff (PT, OT, & SLP) with a variety of duties to optimize our patient care activities

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensures all equipment and supplies are organized, available and .accessible in both treatment and storage areas.

• Maintains inventory of routinely used supplies/equipment and orders additional inventory as needed.

• Responsible for regularly cleaning treatment areas (including toys) and equipment; will appropriately document cleaning of the department equipment based on manufacturers guidelines and hospital policies and procedures.

• Maintains environment of care standards to ensure a safe environment for patients, visitors, and staff.

• Assists with set-up of equipment, patient transportation, and assists in patient treatment programs under the supervision of a therapist.

• Responsible for assisting therapists with non-direct patient care needs and tasks that will improve the patients’ one-to-one treatment experience with their therapist (ie: set up and locate equipment, send faxes, make phone calls, request orders as indicated, etc).

• Demonstrates ability to professionally manage multiple telephone calls by answering all calls promptly, speaking clearly, recording accurate messages and communicating the messages to the appropriate staff members.

• Greets patient, families, and visitors promptly.

• Knowledge of basic office equipment and supplies. Makes appropriate referrals for services and uses paging system effectively.

• Triage of patients and notifies therapist of patient’s arrival.

• Facilitates a child-friendly atmosphere to waiting room and department including accessorizing the waiting room base on the current season/holiday.

• Must be willing to learn and complete basic maintenance and modification of equipment such as walkers, gait trainers, standers and wheelchairs.

• Maintains and achieves annual goals. Completion of special projects as assigned by therapists.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 year experience in rehab/therapy