Sunrise Health Services is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for our patients through exceptional home health services throughout Arizona. With a strong reputation for quality care and a patient-centered approach, we are seeking compassionate and motivated Physical Therapist Assistants to join our growing team and help patients achieve greater independence and mobility in the comfort of their own homes.
relieve pain and prevent disability following disease, injury, or loss of body parts,
Although each position has its own unique duties and responsibilities, the following listing applies to every employee. All employees of the organization:
Will exercise necessary cost control measures.
Will strive to maintain positive internal and external customer service relationships.
Must be able to demonstrate effective leadership skills.
Must demonstrate effective communication skills by conveying necessary information accurately, listening effectively and asking questions when clarification is needed.
Must be able to be depended upon to plan and organize work effectively and ensure its completion.
Must be able to demonstrate reliability by arriving to work on time and taking breaks in expected time frames.
Will be expected to meet all productivity requirements.
Must be able to demonstrate team behavior and must be willing to promote a team-oriented environment.
Is expected to represent the organization professionally at all times.
Must be able to demonstrate initiative, strives to continually improve processes and relationships.
Tactical Deliverables:
Notifies patient/clients prior to the visit and communicates further visits scheduled.
Drives responsibly and safely to and from the client's home.
Schedules own time-based on priorities and maintain productivity utilizing time management.
Provides appropriate and thorough service to patients/clients, ensuring proper completion of services in an accurate and timely manner and in accordance with agency policy.
Makes the initial patient/client Start of Care (SOC) assessment within appropriate time as scheduled by the agency.
Demonstrates respectable customer service and professionalism at all times.
Establishes Home Bound Status and document.
Provides skilled services and/or supervises, requiring substantial knowledge and skills in accordance with the Plan of Care (POC) and accepted standards of professional practice.
Determines discipline frequencies according to physician order and/or assessed needs.
Implement and adhere to physician's orders.
Obtains physician order or verbal orders for Start of Care (SOC) or Resumption of Care (ROC) or Recertification (RECERT) within twenty-four (24) to forty-eight (48) hours from the time of service.
Notify physician with any changes with the initial plan of care (POC) and obtain any appropriate orders.
Provide teaching to patient/client and answer health-related questions and document patient/client/caregiver understanding of education.
Complete Home Health Nursing Aide care plan and make supervisory visits on Home Health Aides and PTAs at least every fourteen days (14).
Document patient's/client's care using appropriate agency forms and submit to agency within appropriate timeline.
Assess any medication changes with each Re-visit and update the Medication Profile Form in the home and in the agency's medical record.
Notifies physician with any change in client condition, abnormal findings and new medications. Obtains orders as Indicated with the appropriate form and submit in a timely manner.
Completes Discharge Oasis and Discharge Summary when patient/client is discharged.
Complete Recertification Oasis every sixty (60) days while on service and obtain new orders for a new plan of care.
Communicate with the staffing coordinator with any scheduling concerns and/or changes in patient/client assignment.
Communicate all Start of Cares (SOC), Resumption of Care (ROC) or Recertification (RECERT) to the clinical support division within twenty-four (24) hours of completion.
Maintain continuity of care and document communications with others within the health care team.
Demonstrate work that meets quality standards. Assisi in periodic auditing of paperwork of self/peers.
Assisi in training of new personnel for field duty.
Communicates regularly with the Director of Nursing and Clinical Supervisor with all patient/client concerns or ideas for better patient/client outcomes.
Adheres to Agency Code of Conduct, Standards of Practice, and Patients/Clients Rights/ Responsibilities.
Demonstrates professionalism in appearance, adhering to Agency dress code.
Accessible transportation to and from patients/clients visits.
Ability to lift 30 pounds, move intermittently throughout the workday, inclusive of sitting, standing and bending, pushing, pulling or moving objects and patients/clients.
