# Physical Therapist Assistant

**Company**: Sanford Health
**Location**: Forest City
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $24.00 - $38.50
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join our not-for-profit organization that has provided over 100 years of housing and services to seniors with a commitment to quality care and service in a Christian environment.

We are seeking a Physical Therapist Assistant to join our team at Good Samaritan Algona and Forest City. The successful candidate will assist 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.

- 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.

- Follow and adhere to accepted clinical practice guidelines of professional organization.

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.

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.

## Skills

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

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