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physiotherapy assistant

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Employer details 11696211 CANADA INC.

Job details

  • Location9886 TORBRAM ROADBrampton, ONL6S 3L9
  • Workplace information On site
  • Salary28.50 hourly / 37.5 hours per week
  • Terms of employment Permanent employmentFull time
  • Evening, Shift, Flexible Hours, Early Morning, Morning
  • Start date Starts as soon as possible
  • vacancies 1 vacancy
  • Source Job Bank #3003000

This employer has applied for a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) to hire a foreign worker to fill labour or skills shortages on a temporary basis. Canadians and Permanent residents are able and encouraged to apply. Learn more.

Overview

Languages

English

Education

  • College/CEGEP

Experience

7 months to less than 1 year

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Responsibilities

Tasks

  • Administer evaluative tests
  • Administer tests using equipment, instruct patients on test procedures and record results, and monitor, check and calibrate auditory equipment
  • Assess patients' physical abilities
  • Assist health care professionals
  • Assist physicians in the assessment of patients
  • Carry out treatment programs, under the direction of physiotherapists and/or occupational therapists, to rehabilitate patients with various injuries or disabilities
  • Develop information materials for patients
  • Examine adult clients to assess hearing loss, recommend type of hearing instrument, take earmold impressions and perform follow-up examinations and readjustments
  • Examine the patient
  • Follow through on treatment programs with patients
  • Help medical examiner in charge
  • Help orthopedic surgeons
  • Help physical therapists
  • Maintain inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
  • Maintain prescription records
  • Make decisions on tests and procedures
  • Operate ophthalmic testing and measuring instruments
  • Position patients for treatments by chiropractor or machine
  • Record test results and medications given by ophthalmologists
  • Set up and dismantle equipment
  • Supervise technical and support staff
  • Administer evaluative tests and procedures
  • Apply and adjust casts, splints and bandages
  • Clean and maintain equipment
  • Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
  • Hire and train staff
  • Lay out surgical instruments
  • Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
  • Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
  • Record information about donors
  • Record vital signs
  • Clean and dress wounds
  • Label and process donated blood
  • Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
  • Order and purchase equipment
  • Plan physiotherapy programs
  • Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens
  • Administer budget
  • Process claims such as health insurance or workers compensation
  • Provide post donation care and donor reaction care
  • Remove casts, sutures and pins
  • Remove organs and tissue specimens from bodies in morgue as directed by pathologist
  • Select appropriate exercises, apparatus and manipulations
  • Clean and sew up bodies for release to funeral homes
  • Collect statistics
  • Maintain clinical and progress reports
  • Maintain supplies
  • Confer with other health professionals
  • Connect treatment machines to patients, as directed by chiropractor
  • Maintain inventory of equipment
  • Assist chiropractor with physical examinations
  • Conduct research in physiotherapy
  • Perform general clerical duties
  • Prepare and maintain cleanliness of collection areas
  • Process files and paperwork
  • Schedule and confirm appointments
  • Take earmold impressions and fit and adjust hearing instruments
  • Take patients' general medical and ophthalmic history
  • Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
  • Teach and/or supervise exercises to patients
  • Order supplies and equipment
  • Organize and maintain inventory

Additional information

Personal suitability

  • Punctuality
  • Client focus
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Accurate
  • Flexibility
  • Creativity

Who can apply to this job?

Only apply to this job if:

  • You are a Canadian citizen, a permanent or a temporary resident of Canada.
  • You have a valid Canadian work permit.

If you are not authorized to work in Canada, do not apply. The employer will not respond to your application.

Advertised until

2024-10-09

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