About this role
Overview
Position: Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA)
Location: Select Specialty Hospital- Orlando Central
Schedule: Full-time
Sign On Bonus: $5,000
Pay Range: $29.73- $40.00 per hour
Select Specialty Hospital – Orlando Central is a 31-bed free-standing critical illness recovery hospital. We specialize in helping critically ill patients breathe, speak, eat, walk and think as independently as possible.
Our hospital also offers medical rehabilitation through Select Medical Rehabilitation, a 32-bed acute rehabilitation unit. The unit is designed to meet an individual’s rehabilitation needs and goals through a range of programs and services. The unit is located within Select Specialty Hospital – Orlando Central
Why Join Us:
- Start Strong : Extensive and thorough Physical Therapy Assistants (PTA) orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
- Advance Your Career : Tuition reimbursement, and continuing education opportunities.
- Elevate Your Skills : Clinical ladder program.
- Ease the Burden : Student debt benefit program.
- Your Health Matters : Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings
- Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO to maintain a healthy work-life balance
- Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection
- Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 nationwide committed to providing exceptional care.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the delivery of physical therapy services including transportation, therapeutic exercises and functional activities
- Implement treatment goals, plans, and programs as established by the physical therapist (PT)
- Assist the PT in carrying out therapeutic interventions designed to meet the patients’ long-term goals, including strengthening, coordination and balance exercises; posture, endurance/cardiac, functional skills and community re-entry training; joint mobility and muscle lengthening and pain relief
- Train patients in locomotion using orthotics, prosthetics or assistive devices
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Valid state PTA license
- Possess a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by start date.
Additional Data
Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans