Rehab Therapy Aide - 40hrs/Day Shift

Job Summary

The Rehabilitation Therapy Aide is responsible for the safety, housekeeping, maintenance, infection control, and supplies and equipment needs of the department and provides backup coverage for the secretarial/reception area. The Rehab Therapy Aide also assists therapists to support patient care as needed. This position is part of the 1199SEIU Bargaining Unit at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. This position reports to the Assistant Director, Rehabilitation Services and operates within established organizational and departmental policies and procedures.

Essential Job Functions

• Assist in miscellaneous operational back-up and secretarial/receptionist tasks as delegated and assigned including filing, phoning patients for reminders, sorting mail, collating statistics, compiling census updates, and typing.
• Track and report daily inpatient census.
• Maintain established hospital and departmental policies and procedures, objectives, confidentiality, quality improvement program, safety, compliance, infection control, and environmental standards.
• Maintain professional growth and development through attendance at seminars, workshops, conferences or in-services, professional affiliations, or journals to stay abreast of current trends in field of expertise.
• Attend meetings as required.
• Meet annual competency and retraining requirements.
• Perform other functions/duties as requested.
• Prepare, set up and clean patient care areas in all rehabilitation services specialties.
• Tidy and clean treatment areas and linens prior to patient’s arrival.
• Escort patients to treatment areas.
• Provide proper garments for patients.
• Responsible for acquiring equipment, assembly and set up for treatment and the notification of the therapist.
• Assist inpatient and outpatient therapy staff in patient care as needed, directed, and supervised including monitoring and/or facilitating exercise as instructed by therapist or licensed assistant, assisting in ambulation or transfers as instructed, obtaining equipment or supplies as instructed, assisting therapists or licensed assistants in provision of therapy, and assisting in ambulating or transferring patients as directed by therapists.
• Ensure the safety, housekeeping, maintenance, supplies, and equipment needs of the department, to include distributing linens and disposing of laundry, tidying booth, gym, and overall department to eliminate clutter, requesting repairs in a timely fashion, stocking all medical and non-medical supplies and maintaining inventory, submitting requisitions based on inventory needs to Assistant Director for approval and processing of items supplied by outside vendors and placing orders directly with select vendors (i.e. WB Mason), submitting orders to storeroom for stocked items, cleaning patient care equipment as directed (splint pans, hydro units, paraffin, etc.), conducting temperature checks of equipment, scheduling biomedical equipment and crash cart/AED checkup dates, ensuring OSHA guidelines adherence, and monitoring consignment closet supplies and orders.