Rehabilitation Therapy Aide – Physical Therapy

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.  

The Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant provides patient care support in accordance with relevant laws and regulations for occupational, physical, or speech therapy, or activity coordination. Responsibilities include assisting rehabilitation therapists with therapy services, ensuring the proper maintenance of equipment, and managing supplies necessary for patient treatment and care.

As a successful candidate, you will: 

• Provide patient related tasks under the order, direction and immediate supervision of a licensed/certified rehabilitation therapist
• Assist the licensed/certified therapist in performing patient related tasks such as observation of the patient, transport of patients, physical support during gait or, transfer training, demonstration of proper exercise or activity technique, and non-patient related tasks such as housekeeping duties, clerical duties and similar functions.
• Responsible for data management, including data input, maintenance of data base, and data reporting as required
• Interact effectively both inter and intra-departmentally on a regular basis for planning and coordination

Your qualifications should include:

• High School or Equivalent, some college preferred
• 0-1 year experience in an acute care setting as a rehabilitation therapy aide or equivalent
• On the job training
• BLS – American Heart Association
• Hourly Per Diem Rate: $30.8784/hr

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

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