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Rehab Aide

Company Overview:

Shriners Children’s is a family that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

Job Overview:

Shriners Children's is the premier pediatric burn, orthopaedic, spinal cord injury, cleft lip and palate, and pediatric subspecialties medical center. We have an opportunity for a Rehab Aide to join our team.

Responsibilities:

The Rehab Aid is responsible for assisting the rehabilitation staff (PT, OT, SLP, Recreation Therapy) with a variety of duties to optimize our patient care activities:

Ensures all equipment and supplies are organized, available and accessible in both treatment and storage areas.
Maintains inventory of routinely used supplies/equipment and orders additional inventory as needed.
Responsible for regularly cleaning treatment areas (including toys) and equipment; will appropriately document cleaning of the department equipment based on manufacturers guidelines and hospital policies and procedures.
Maintains environment of care standards to ensure a safe environment for patients, visitors, and staff.
Assists with set-up of equipment, patient transportation, and assists in patient treatment programs under the supervision of a therapist.
Responsible for assisting therapists with non-direct patient care needs and tasks that will improve the patients’ one-to-one treatment experience with their therapist (ie: set up and locate equipment, send faxes, make phone calls, request orders as indicated, etc).
Demonstrates ability to professionally manage multiple telephone calls by answering all calls promptly, speaking clearly, recording accurate messages and communicating the messages to the appropriate staff members.
Greets patient, families, and visitors promptly.
Knowledge of basic office equipment and supplies. Makes appropriate referrals for services and uses paging system effectively.
Triage of patients and notifies therapist of patient’s arrival.
Facilitates a child friendly atmosphere to waiting room and department including accessorizing the waiting room base on the current season/holiday.
Must be willing to learn and complete basic maintenance and modification of equipment such as walkers, gait trainers, standers and wheelchairs.
Maintains and achieves annual goals. Completion of special projects as assigned by therapists.

Qualifications:

Education

High School diploma or GED

Experience

1 year experience in rehab/therapy preferred

Shriners Children’s is an EOE/Drug-Free, Smoke-Free Workplace.

Shriners Children’s values diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

In accordance with local and system policies, all SHC employees must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to be eligible for hire.

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INDUSTRY

Health Care Services & Hospitals

TEAM SIZE

5001-10000

LOCATION

Hybrid, based in Tampa, FL

DATE POSTED

June 10, 2023