Physical Therapy Assistant

Duration: 6 Months

Pay Rate: $34/Hr on W2 ($1360 weekly)

Physical Therapy Assistants offer a rehabilitation approach that assists individuals with reaching their highest level of motor functioning and mobility. Through physical therapy, people are assessed and receive treatment to move and perform functional activities in their daily lives and to help prevent conditions associated with loss of mobility. Therapy may involve intensive work in a variety of areas including standing, sitting, walking, balance, muscle tone, endurance, strength, and coordination.

•    Assist individuals to identify their needs and develop appropriate compensation techniques to accommodate the consequences of their brain injury. This includes offering creative solutions and alternatives for carrying out daily activities. 
•    Contribute to evaluations that address consumers’ physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine best methods and strategies for therapies.
•    Evaluate and recommend changes to the supervising Physical Therapist in consumers’ work or living environments that are consistent with their needs.
•    Integrate employment, educational and independent living goals into therapy.
•    Collaborate with consumer and other professional staff to determine when goals are being met.
•    Attend team meetings and assist consumer in goal setting.
•    Provide services only as designated on each individual consumer’s authorized plan of care.
•    Assist with the selection and utilization of adaptive equipment and/or home modifications, as well as processes for home and community environment.
•    Work directly with consumers to improve skills in all aspects of their life goals.
•    Document sessions with the consumer the day of the service and is goal driven, concise, factual, and clear. 
•    Educate families about the consequences of brain injury and communicate with them about goals and progress as needed.

Shift – Day