Physical Therapist Assistant - Outpatient

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Maternity/Paternity leave

Bereavement leave (pets)

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement plans with company match

Job summary

BHS Baptist Healthcare System is seeking a Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) for outpatient services in Paducah, KY. You will work under the supervision of a Licensed Physical Therapist to treat patients, coordinate with doctors, and supervise support staff and students.

The role focuses on improving functional independence through therapeutic procedures, ROM, gait training, and ADL coaching, while ensuring proper documentation and planning for discharge. Competitive benefits apply.

Qualifications

• Assosciate degree required (PTA program).
• Strong communication with health team is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide services to improve functional independence and/or reduce pain through therapeutic procedures/exercises and activities.
• Complete documentation for treatment notes and discharge summaries in a timely manner.
• Design and instruct home exercise programs; educate patients, families, and caregivers.
• Supervise aides, volunteers, and staff under the supervision of a licensed PT when applicable.

Education

Associate degree in Physical Therapist Assistant program

Job description

Summary Job Description

Physical Therapist Assistant - Outpatient Full Time, First Shift The Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) will treat patients, maintain communication with doctors and other health personnel, supervise aides, volunteers, support staff, and students under the supervision of a Licensed Physical Therapist in compliance with the Kentucky State Board of Physical Therapy Practice Act.

Job Duties

Provide services to improve functional independence and/or reduce pain such as therapeutic procedures/exercises or activities to promote ROM, strength, coordination, balance, functional mobility (bed mobility, transfers, floor transfers), ADL training, gait training, balance and vestibular training, education, and use of assistive devices. Completes documentation for treatment notes and D/C summaries in a timely manner. Assures continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge by designing home exercise programs; instructing patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs; recommending discharge disposition and assistive equipment needs.

Requirements

Associates in a Physical Therapist Assistant Program Eligible for a temporary license or Licensed as a Physical Therapist Assistant by the Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy

Preferred Requirements

Acute Care Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves.

The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug‑free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre‑employment drug testing.

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