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Alamo PT, LLC is a company formed to provide quality outpatient orthopedic physical therapy to the San Antonio community. The company is lead by physical therapist owners Kara Powell and Stacy Hoyt.

With many years of physical therapy experience, they have numerous connections with the local medical community, the local and area sports community, and the Alamo Heights community and surrounding neighborhood. Alamo PT looks forward to providing quality physical therapy with professional personal interaction utilizing advanced evidence-based techniques convenient to central San Antonio businesses and communities.

Job Summary:

The Physical Therapist Assistant will help Physical Therapists provide physical therapy treatments and procedures. The Physical Therapist Assistant may, in accordance with state laws, assist in the development of treatment plans, carry out routine functions, document the progress of treatment, and modify specific treatments in accordance with patient status and within the scope of treatment plans established by a physical therapist.

Duties/Responsibilities:

Instructs, motivates, safeguards, and assists patients as they practice exercises or functional activities. Observes patients during treatments to compile and evaluate data on their responses and progress and provide results to the physical therapist in person or through progress notes.

Confers with physical therapy staff and others to discuss and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, and coordinating treatment. Communicates with and instruct caregivers and family members on patient therapeutic activities and treatment plans.

Transports patients to and from treatment areas, lifting and transferring them according to positioning requirements. Secures patients into or onto therapy equipment.

Administers active and passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, aquatic physical therapy, and heat, light, sound, and electrical modality treatments such as ultrasound.

Measures patients’ range-of-joint motion, body parts, and vital signs to determine the effects of treatments or for patient evaluations.

Monitors operation of equipment and records use of equipment and administration of treatment.

Fits patients with orthopedic braces, prostheses, and supportive devices such as crutches.

Required Skills/Abilities:

Excellent customer service and patient care skills.

Basic understanding of physical therapy and medical terminology.

Ability to implement physical therapy treatment programs as specified by physical therapy plan of care

Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

Ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written)

Education and Experience:

Associates degree

Valid Texas license as a physical therapy assistant granted by the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners

One year experience in physical therapy, outpatient orthopedics a plus

Physical Requirements:

Prolonged periods of standing and walking.

Requires lifting, positioning, pushing, and/or transferring patients.

Frequent reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching.

Job Type: Part Time or Full Time

Pay: Commensurate with experience

Benefits: Full time employee benefits include major medical, vision, dental , short and long term disability, 401k match, PTO, Paid Holidays

Schedule: Monday to Friday

License/Certification:

CPR/AED Certified

Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant