GENERAL SUMMARY:

 Under the direction of the Director and Assistant Director of Physical Therapy, the Physical Therapy Aide provides assistance with patient care as well as departmental maintenance responsibilities. 

 Assigned duties are implemented in a manner appropriate to the age-specific needs of the individuals served.

EDUCATION:

 High school diploma or equivalent experience preferred.

 WORK EXPERIENCE:

 Minimum of one (1) year experience in a medical setting preferred.

 SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:

 CPR certification is required and must be maintained.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF JOB:

Assists with patient care responsibilities, including patient transfers, toileting, exercise program, ambulation training, application of hot pack and cold packs.  Performs general clean up responsibilities including changing linens, putting exercise equipment away, re-stocking supply cabinets, disinfecting equipment.  Maintains an awareness of general health and safety precautions of patients and alerts necessary personnel of problems observed.  Maintains open lines of communication with supervisors and departmental management, especially with regards to patient status. 

Required Skills Required Experience

• Experience working in large, complex integration projects that leverage agile and waterfall processes
• Designing and developing APIs from specification to implementation in MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
• Serverless development (Lambda)
• Good understand of Anypoint API Designer, Anypoint Exchange, Anypoint API Portal, Anypoint Studio
• Familiarity with API Patterns and design including decomposition into reusable components
• Experience and understanding authentication methods not limited to: Basic, OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect
• Strong XML experience, including schema design, XPath, XQuery, XSLT
• Experience in developing, executing and documenting unit tests 
• Exposure to software engineering best practices and design patterns
• Adhere to coding standards, procedures and techniques utilizing programming skills and contribute to the technical code base including any required documentation
• Familiarity with testing tools such as SoapUI and Postman
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Experience in working with version control systems and software configuration management tools such as TFS
• Scripting experience to automate configuration and deployment of objects using WLST and Maven
• Motivated to learn new technologies such as Cloud ecosystem, API Management

 NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Health and Life Insurance experience is a plus
• Self-starter with initiative and drive
• Critical thinking and problem resolution