Physical Therapy Assistant

Summary Job Description: BHMG Physical Therapy Commonwealth Drive Full Time PTA The Physical Therapist Assistant will implement the plan of treatment as designed by the Physical Therapist. Perform duties within the scope of their department and training. Complete documentation in the medical record according to the department policies and procedures. Provide education to staff, patients, families, and the community as needed. Outpatient care is provided to patients from adolescent through adult to the geriatric age group.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Carries out the principles of positive customer relations.
• Implements patient care programs as outlined by the physical therapist, using appropriate techniques and modalities to insure quality care as well as safety for each patient.
• Maintains at least weekly communication with supervising therapists for each patient so that treatment plans and changes can be thoroughly discussed.
• Seeks assistance and opinions from appropriate sources regarding patient Requests re-evaluations as appropriate or as patient’s condition indicates from the supervising therapist.
• Reports any adverse reaction by the patient to the therapist.
• Completes patient documentation in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
• Maintains communication with physicians and other health care professionals.
• Assists with discharge planning.

Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required

• Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapist Assistant program.
• Certified or eligible for certification in the State of Kentucky.
• Minimum of 2 (two) years clinical experience preferred.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves.

The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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