Rehab Assistant

Job Overview

Pediatric Clinic – Rehab Assistant/Environmental Services Tech

Summary

The Rehab Assistant/Environmental Services Tech is responsible in assisting with the overall day to day functions of the clinic and assist with the overall safety and cleanliness of the clinical environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Cleanliness / Sanitization:

• Assists with overall cleanliness of the clinical environment
• Completes all tasks on cleaning calendar
• Completes laundry and dishes for therapy use
• Assists Leadership with clinic walk-throughs outside/inside and completes duties as assigned

Maintenance:

• Keeping Maintenance Excel up to date and notifies Administrative Director or Leadership team that they have contacted outside assistance when needed (i.e. Electrician / Plumber / Handy Man)
• Basic repairs of the clinic
• In adverse weather, ensures the safety of our patients and staff by salting and shoveling entry ways.

Clinic/Office Operations:

• Understands and complies with universal precautions, safety, and risk policies and procedures.
• Assists with orientation of new staff, volunteers, and students
• Assists with front desk duties including scheduling, taking payments, in compliance with HIPAA guidelines.
• Opens office and closes office as needed, following company procedure
• Utilizes and maintains office and therapy equipment, requests supplies when necessary.
• Completes shopping for necessary clinical supplies.
• Orders office/cleaning supplies including postage
• Performs clerical duties such as daily mail, inventory, answering phones, taking messages, filing/scanning, of various paperwork in all patient folders,
• Completing discharge audits via EMR software or paper for therapy staff.
• Participates actively on assigned clinical committees.
• Prepares evaluations and progress notes to be mailed, returned and resent as needed.
• Immediately updates MSDS notebook with new products brought into the clinic
• Manages expiration dates of all items with limited shelf life
• Assists Administrative staff with team building activities
• Performs annual inventory of therapy equipment and updates inventory in Inventory Builder and Excel inventory spread sheet.

Patient Related Tasks

• Completes set up and tear down of requested therapeutic equipment
• Assists with therapy projects as requested by staff
• Maintains a positive working relationship with the health care team, patient, and family.
• Completes the preparation of requested set up and clean – up of requested food for Feeding Therapy

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and provide written documentation of education, specialized training and/or periodic assessments/reviews.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education, Certificate, Licenses, Registrations

High School Diploma and Valid Iowa Driver’s License. Full time staff in this position must obtain their CPR/First Aid certification within the first 90 days of employment.

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and technical procedures.  Ability to write scheduling procedures, correspondences between therapists, and phone messages.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions for staff, patients, group of customers, and employee organizations.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to calculate figures such as discounts, interest, percentages, proportions, range of motion, area, circumference, and volume.  Ability to apply concepts of basic math.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger or handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance. The employee must be able to exert 35 to 50 pounds of force occasionally (activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time), and/or 10 to 15 pounds of force frequently (activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) and/or 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.