Physiotherapy Assistant

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 32 to 35 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:

- **Education**:

- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- ** Tasks**:

- Administer tests using equipment, instruct patients on test procedures and record results, and monitor, check and calibrate auditory equipment
- 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
- Examine adult clients to assess hearing loss, recommend type of hearing instrument, take earmold impressions and perform follow-up examinations and readjustments
- Position patients for treatments by chiropractor or machine
- Plan physiotherapy programs
- Select appropriate exercises, apparatus and manipulations
- Maintain clinical and progress reports
- Prepare and maintain cleanliness of collection areas
- Take earmold impressions and fit and adjust hearing instruments
- Take patients' general medical and ophthalmic history
- Teach and/or supervise exercises to patients
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Repetitive tasks
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Attention to detail
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Punctuality
- Client focus
- Excellent oral communication
- Accurate
- Organized
- Reliability
- ** Experience**:

- 1 year to less than 2 years
- ** Health benefits**:

- Health care plan
- ** Support for persons with disabilities**:

- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
- ** Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
- **Support for Indigenous people**:

- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities