Acute Care Physical Therapist Assistant PRN
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locationsIntermountain Health Intermountain Medical Center time typePart time posted onPosted 5 Days Ago time left to applyEnd Date: August 29, 2025 (23 days left to apply) job requisition idR144266 Job Description:
The Physical Therapist Assistant provides assistance to the physical therapist in developing and implementing physical therapy treatment, procedures, and related activities for direct patient care. In addition, this position is responsible for consulting, educating, and training patients, families, and caregivers and for collaborating with care teams and stakeholders to deliver quality, patient centered care.
Essential Functions
Promotes mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, and abides by service standards.
Competent Services : Provides skilled physical therapy services under the direction and supervision of a licensed physical therapist, staying updated on standard practices for different patient groups. Conducts treatments according to professional standards (APTA).
Productivity Standards : Meets established productivity standards for the department or service line.
Documentation and Billing : Keeps thorough and timely patient records as required by regulations and facility policies. Completes patient billing accurately and promptly.
Communication : Communicates effectively with patients, families, physicians, and healthcare providers about patient needs and goals. Ensures smooth operations and optimal use of rehabilitation services. Communicates patient assessments, progress, and concerns with the physical therapist.
Continuing Education : Participates in and promotes continuing education opportunities for self and staff, seeking new learning opportunities according to licensure requirements.
Quality Improvement : Engages in quality improvement processes, including safe equipment use, improving clinical outcomes, patient access, patient experience and all aspects of the Intermountain Operating Model. Participates in utilization review audits.
Program Development and Marketing : Contributes to program development and marketing strategies to grow the physical therapy program to achieve department goals.
Skills
Quality Improvement
Verbal and Written Communication
Patient Engagement
Critical Thinking
Time Management
Care Planning
Compassion
Qualifications
Current Physical Therapist Assistant license in the states where you work.
Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers.
Basic Computer skills.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
Possess skill sets and experience with target population of job setting.
Current drivers license, reliable transportation, and acceptable driving record.
Physical Requirements:
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
Location:
Intermountain Health Intermountain Medical Center Work City:
Murray Work State:
Utah Scheduled Weekly Hours:
0 The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$29.14 - $44.94 We care about your well-being mind, body, and spirit which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.
Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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Headquartered in Utah with locations in six primary states and additional operations across the western U.S., Intermountain Health is a nonprofit system of 33 hospitals, 400+ clinics, a medical group of more than 4,800 employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plan division called Select Health with more than one million members, and other health services.
With more than 68,000 caregivers on a mission to help people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is committed to improving community health, and is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare. We strive to be a model health system by taking full clinical and financial accountability for the health of more people, partnering to proactively keep people well, and coordinating and providing the best possible care.
Our Caregiver Promise: Together, for the healthiest lives
We celebrate the different perspectives, background, experiences, and identities our caregivers bring to their work every day at Intermountain. Across all areas of our integrated health system, we proudly share best practices, knowledge, and techniques to better serve our patients, communities, and each other.
Here, you’ll work alongside collaborative and curious minds who will support you, encourage you, inspire you, advocate for you, and challenge you to be your very best.
Our Values
Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us.
Our action-oriented values, inspired and shaped by our own caregivers, speak to what it means to be part of Intermountain.
We are leaders in clinical excellence, delivering safe, best-in-quality care
We believe in what we do, living our mission every day
We serve with empathy, caring for each caregiver, patient, and member with compassion and respect
We are partners in health, collaborating to keep people well
We do the right thing, learning and acting with purpose
We are better together, building community through teamwork and belonging
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- Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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