# Physical Therapist Assistant- Hugh Chatham Outpatient Therapy (Elkin, NC) FT Days

**Company**: Advocate Health
**Location**: Elkin, NC
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $21.15 - $31.75 per hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Physical Therapist Assistant to join our team at Hugh Chatham Outpatient Therapy in Elkin, NC. As a Physical Therapist Assistant, you will play a crucial role in managing assigned patient caseloads, implementing care programs, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

**Responsibilities:**

- Manage patient caseloads, ensuring timely care and documentation per plan of care and MD orders.

- Collect health data from home assessments, telephonic contacts, and EMR.

- Implement care programs, including modalities, procedures, exercise, and education per PT plan.

- Document and execute plan of care addressing patient/family needs, discharge planning, and resource use.

- Apply clinical reasoning and skills for accurate assessments, therapy effectiveness, and prioritization of needs.

- Provide patient/family education on deficits, goals, techniques, and home program with equipment use.

- Observe, record, and report treatment reactions or condition changes to physician/PT.

- Communicate updates on schedules, patient data, and orders with multidisciplinary team.

- Incorporate short- and long-term goals into therapy, documented in visit notes.

- Support collaboration with physician and PT leadership for timely feedback on patient condition or care changes.

- Ensure clear, timely, complete documentation per policy and standards; meet productivity targets.

- Perform treatments per State PT Practice Act, Home Health Conditions, JCAHO, Medicare, OASIS, and agency policy.

- Promote shared governance, decision-making, and research to improve outcomes.

- Maintain current PT knowledge and competence; integrate evidence and research into practice.

**Requirements:**

- Graduate of an approved Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) program.

- Current state licensure as a PTA.

- Maintain current state driver's license and auto insurance.

- Personal vehicle must be well maintained and in safe driving condition.

- 1-year experience as a licensed PT in a clinical care setting or home health (preferred).

- Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) from AHA.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive compensation ($21.15 - $31.75 per hour)

- Paid Time Off programs

- Health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability)

- Flexible Spending Accounts

- Family benefits (adoption assistance and paid parental leave)

- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match

- Educational Assistance Program

## Skills

### Required
- Physical Therapy Assistant
- PTA
- Basic Life Support
- BLS HCP
- EMR

### Nice to have
- 1-year experience as a licensed PT in a clinical care setting or home health
- pediatric experience

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