# Physical Therapist Assistant

**Company**: Sanford Health
**Location**: Jackson
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: $24.00 - $38.50
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://sanfordcareers.com/jackson-mn/physical-therapist-assistant-prn/396F31096D2549C0AD73CE42B4BDA966/job/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Join our team as a Physical Therapist Assistant in Jackson, MN. This role assists patients/residents/clients with therapy activities and exercises scheduled in a treatment plan, under the supervision of a physical therapist, to improve patients'/residents'/clients' quality of life and ability to perform daily activities.

Responsibilities: Assist patients/residents/clients with therapy activities and exercises scheduled in a treatment plan, under the supervision of a physical therapist. Provide, monitor and record therapy services to patients/residents/clients with physical, cognitive, developmental impairments. Select, implement, and make modifications to therapeutic activities and interventions that are consistent with demonstrated competency levels, patient's/resident's/client's goals, and the requirements of the practice setting and/or state licensure. Contribute to this process by exchanging information with and providing documentation to the physical therapist about the patient's/resident's/client's responses to and communications during intervention. Responsible for being knowledgeable about the patient's/resident's/client's targeted physical therapy outcomes and for providing information and documentation related to outcome achievement. Follows and adheres to accepted clinical practice guidelines of professional organisation.

Qualifications: Appropriate education level required in accordance with state licensure. Must also be a graduate through an approved American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) program as a Physical Therapist Assistant. Must be licensed as a Physical Therapist Assistant in the state(s) of practice. Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required within six months of employment. When applicable, may require valid driver's license.

Benefits: Good Samaritan offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- physical therapy
- patient care
- therapy activities
- exercise planning
- documentation

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