Rehab Aide

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Duties and Responsibilities

70% of time – Patient Care Responsibilities

· Assist rehab staff in moving, transferring, and transporting patients as needed.

· Assist rehab staff with instrumental assessment setup, patient interactions, and instrumental assessment take down.

· Receive requests (written, phone or in person) from therapists and/or providers to provide necessary bracing and orthotics.

· Coordinate and organizes inventory of DME and bracing supplies.

· Monitors and maintains advanced technologies and equipment, troubleshoots operational issues, and prepares equipment/technology/controllers for therapist use with patients.

· Assist therapists with and provide patients devices that assist with mobility modifications

· Organizes inventory of walkers, canes, etc., cleans and repairs as necessary.

· Provide orthopedic equipment in patient’s rooms and its return upon patients discharge.

· Assists therapists with the application or removal of casts or splints, inventories, and orders all supplies.

· Maintains competency and compliance with High-Level Disinfection Process.

· Monitors and maintains endoscopes.

20% of the time - Overall equipment maintenance

· Maintain inventory and assure preventive maintenance of all equipment including advanced technologies and specialty program equipment.

· Liaison between purchasing and Rehabilitation Department to assure proper equipment is ordered and maintained.

· Work with public relations department to assure all outdated excessive equipment is donated to a designated charity, as appropriate.

· Consultant to therapists to set-up equipment for casting and splinting, assuring that therapists have items needed for procedure.

· Work as a resource to medical residents, therapists, nurses, and PCA staff.

· Work with management team to assure costs for orthopedic procedures are being captured and appropriately billed.

· Contact outside and special orthopedic suppliers to arrange purchase and delivery of special supplies and equipment.

· Maintain equipment in good working order, arrange for special medical equipment.

· As requested, collects information for budgeting process, assists with preparing, monitoring, and identifying budget variances.

· As requested, provides input on budgets, programs and use of personnel, supplies, and facilities.

10% of the time – Business and Financial Management

· On an ongoing basis disseminates materials (e.g. educational items, patient care guides, schedules, filing)

· As directed types, copies and files documents

· According to schedule and as requested, facilitates requisitions for equipment and services.

· Maintains tracking mechanism of inventory supply costs, purchases, and charges.

· Manage department budget related to supplies, bracing and orthotics, as cost center contact.

· Working as liaison within the department to decrease the overall cost of orthopedic equipment. Streamlines product availability.

· Works with Team Manager to assure accurate inventory list and accurate depreciation costs are allocated to the appropriate cost center.

· Develop system to closely monitor all supplies that are ordered, and that the revenue is captured for all services.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
High School graduate or equivalent. 0 years of relevant experience required. 0-2 years of relevant experience preferred.

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