Rehabilitation Assistant Job Description
Rehabilitation assistant
provides consultation and education to the community to strengthen resources available to persons with mental illness and trauma.
Rehabilitation Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective rehabilitation assistant job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included rehabilitation assistant job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Execute treatments designed to improve patients' functional capabilities
Instruct patients in exercise performance and training techniques
Assure patient safety at all times during rehabilitation sessions
Continuously evaluate the patients' response to rehabilitation interventions and independently implement treatment modifications as needed which may also include necessary adjustments to equipment to promote maximum safety, comfort and effectiveness
Schedule and conduct interviews with OOD clients to assess vocational needs
Coordinate and conduct job placement activities with consumers including assisting in preparing resumes & completing job applications, preparing for job interviews and information related to how to seek employment
Assist consumers with benefits counseling & planning
Prepare paperwork to request diagnostic testing/evaluation from doctors psychologists & other health care professionals
Monitor treatment plans & monitor caseloads for case progression
Conduct referral screening & maintain documentation
Rehabilitation Assistant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Rehabilitation Assistant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AHA, BLS, CPR, CNA, BCLS
Education for Rehabilitation Assistant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the rehabilitation assistant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Social Work, Education, Psychology, Counseling, Special Education, Graduate, Business/Administration, Human Services, Rehabilitation Counseling, Economics
Skills for Rehabilitation Assistant
Desired skills for rehabilitation assistant include:
Personal computers and software applications
Community and government service delivery systems
Mental illness and emotional components of physical illness
Specialized field
Collaboration and experience dealing with complex interpersonal situations
Critical thinking
Home and Community Based Services waiver
Problem solving
AA degree
Student in health-related field
Desired experience for rehabilitation assistant includes:
Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to provide care appropriate to adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients
Serve as primary contact with study participants
Interact with clinical personnel to screen prospective participants to determine eligibility according to study inclusion criteria
Answer questions regarding study protocol
Administer self-report measures to subjects both in person and by telephone
Perform coding of psychosocial information and check scoring and coding of other examiners
Rehabilitation Assistant Examples
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Rehabilitation Assistant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a rehabilitation assistant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for rehabilitation assistant
- Set up and maintain equipment for intervention studies
- Maintain confidentiality of subject records
- Gather, record, organize, transcribe, and verify the accuracy of research study data
- Complete outcome assessments via telephone and submit data in specified time frames
- Track subjects to locate current contact information
- Participate in research team meetings
- As needed miscellaneous projects
- Associate or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited school required
- Reports problems and progress to the primary nurse throughout the shift
- Collects specimens from patients as assigned and transports specimens to the lab if required
Qualifications for rehabilitation assistant
- Assists with cleaning of nursing areas, refrigerators, store rooms, as needed
- Composes, types, and transcribes correspondence, forms, reports, presentations and communications
- Receives, screens, and routes visitors and telephone calls
- Schedules/coordinates meetings, conferences, special events, appointments, and maintains calendars
- Adheres to SRMC Policies/Philosophies
- Minimum of 4 years of clinical teaching and/or clinical coordination experience
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of rehabilitation assistant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for rehabilitation assistant
- Maintain records per Rehabilitation Service guidelines
- Provide minor maintenance to rehabilitation equipment, monitor equipment for signs of wear and tear, and manage durable medical equipment levels
- Provide secretarial and administrative support services
- Provide scheduling and front desk support services
- Maintain all patient records and billing information
- Answer a multi-line telephone system, monitor the patient reception areas and respond to identified patient needs and inquiries for information
- Coordinate scheduling of all patient visits
- Prepare word processing documents from dictation or written draft as assigned
- Transcribes dictation that may involve use of medical or scientific terminology
- Types correspondence, memorandums, grants, manuscripts, book chapters, from complex rough drafts, which may involve special formats and complicated footnotes
Qualifications for rehabilitation assistant
- Able to meet faculty requirements as stated in the Evaluative Criteria for Physical Therapist Education Programs
- Able to initiate, administer, assess, and document clinical education programs
- Or Bachelor's core program in academic field commensurate with program area to be assigned per approved Position Description on file
- Doctorate required in human movement science, exercise physiology, allied health profession, or related field
- Three years full-time effective teaching in a health science related field
- Knowledge and demonstrated expertise in musculoskeletal anatomy, application of exercise principles for a variety of populations, and rehabilitation/reconditioning of the musculoskeletal system
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a rehabilitation assistant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for rehabilitation assistant
- Retrieves articles from Library
- Maintains various files and records for operating unit, which may include vacation/sick leave, personnel files
- Assists physicians and nurses in the performance of diagnostic examinations by performing duties such as monitoring vital signs, preparing and positioning the patent, or by performing a variety of routine diagnostic test glucometer test for blood glucose level
- Performs a complete range of treatment procedures such as
- Take care of patients' routine care and comfort needs for psycho/spiritual well-being, personal hygiene, physical comfort, nutrition, elimination, prevention of skin breakdown, rehabilitation, safety
- Provide physical therapy treatment
- Have responsibility for communication with patients and their families, physicians, nurses, and other personnel regarding patient care
- Provide basic nursing care to patients, under direct supervision of RN
- Assist others in lifting heavy equipment, supplies, , as directed or requested
- Collecting and processing specimens and point of care testing, preparing for exam, Assists physicians with various procedures, takes vital signs, relays instructions to patients and or families
Qualifications for rehabilitation assistant
- Interest and demonstrated ability to collaborate with an interdisciplinary team
- Terminal degree
- Must possess current CNA certification for the state of SC
- Must obtain CPR, First Aide, CNA certification (within 4 months of hire), Food Handlers
- 2 years of experience utilizing MS Office Suite or other Windows-based software programs
- 1-2 years of experience in a customer service-oriented environment
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Rehabilitation Assistant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of rehabilitation assistant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for rehabilitation assistant
- Directly guiding and assisting individuals in all areas of vocational/habilitation programming, including the line supervision of various employment and pre-vocational programs
- Arranges appropriate work site/program placements
- Provides work site job coaching
- Assists higher level Rehabilitation Counselors and Habilitation staff in the daily implementation of specific group activities in vocational and psychosocial areas
- Prepares schedules and programs and arranges for necessary resources
- Arranges transportation if needed
- Implements service and Behavior Support plans
- Identifies individual’s progress and growth through the recording of observed behavior and performance in various activities
- Observes individual’s work habits and consults with other work site staff
- Assists higher level Rehabilitation Counselors and Habilitation Staff by gathering and distributing materials and supplies required to conduct specific group activities
Qualifications for rehabilitation assistant
- Previous experience in a medical environment -or- rehab field -or-working with medical terminology
- Previous experience with computerized patient scheduling programs
- Keyboarding skills (minimum of 45 words per minute)
- Experience in a medical environment-or- rehab field-or-working with medical terminology
- Experience with computerized patient scheduling programs
- 1 year of experience utilizing MS Office Suite or other Windows-based software programs
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Rehabilitation Assistant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a rehabilitation assistant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for rehabilitation assistant
- Participates with other habilitation staff in regular, periodic reviews of programs
- Attends and contributes to meetings to review individuals’ work attitudes, behavior, performance, and attendance
- Develops and implements routines and goals for individuals to increase attending behavior and acceptance of guidance
- Evaluates overall progress to ensure transition into either less restrictive or more advanced program areas
- Keeps daily records of attendance and performance
- Evaluates plans and goals to ensure that they are current and attainable and notes any significant changes or events
- Develops plans and routines based on needs identified by the treatment team and limitations of available program areas and agency resources
- Prepares department activities, travel, business expenses
- Assists in cost containment through appropriate ordering and conserving of supplies and equipment
- Demonstrates the ability to be flexible and organized during stressful situations
Qualifications for rehabilitation assistant
- For some Rehab clinic locations, American Heart Association (AHA) HeartSaver certification, or American Heart Association Basic Life Support (AHA-BLS) certification
- Previous direct patient care experience is strongly preferred
- Be able to travel between sites in a timely manner as assigned
- Experience in medical environment -or-rehab field -or-working with medical terminology
- 1 year of experience utilizing Microsoft Office Suite or other Windows-based software programs
- American Heart Association (AHA) HeartSaver certification, or American Heart Association Basic Life Support (AHA-BLS) certification for some Rehab clinic locations