Rehab Aide

Rehab Aide

Requirements

• High School graduate or equivalent.
• 0 years of relevant experience required.
• 0-2 years of relevant experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist rehab staff in moving, transferring, and transporting patients as needed.
• Assist rehab staff with instrumental assessment setup, patient interactions, and instrumental assessment take down.
• Receive requests (written, phone or in person) from therapists and/or providers to provide necessary bracing and orthotics.
• Coordinate and organizes inventory of DME and bracing supplies.
• Monitors and maintains advanced technologies and equipment, troubleshoots operational issues, and prepares equipment/technology/controllers for therapist use with patients.
• Assist therapists with and provide patients devices that assist with mobility modifications.
• Organizes inventory of walkers, canes, etc., cleans and repairs as necessary.
• Provide orthopedic equipment in patient’s rooms and its return upon patients discharge.
• Assists therapists with the application or removal of casts or splints, inventories, and orders all supplies.
• Maintains competency and compliance with High-Level Disinfection Process.
• Monitors and maintains endoscopes.
• Maintain inventory and assure preventive maintenance of all equipment including advanced technologies and specialty program equipment.
• Liaison between purchasing and Rehabilitation Department to assure proper equipment is ordered and maintained.
• Work with public relations department to assure all outdated excessive equipment is donated to a designated charity, as appropriate.
• Consultant to therapists to set-up equipment for casting and splinting, assuring that therapists have items needed for procedure.
• Work as a resource to medical residents, therapists, nurses, and PCA staff.
• Work with management team to assure costs for orthopedic procedures are being captured and appropriately billed.
• Contact outside and special orthopedic suppliers to arrange purchase and delivery of special supplies and equipment.
• Maintain equipment in good working order, arrange for special medical equipment.
• As requested, collects information for budgeting process, assists with preparing, monitoring, and identifying budget variances.
• As requested, provides input on budgets, programs and use of personnel, supplies, and facilities.
• On an ongoing basis disseminates materials (e.g. educational items, patient care guides, schedules, filing).
• As directed types, copies and files documents.
• According to schedule and as requested, facilitates requisitions for equipment and services.
• Maintains tracking mechanism of inventory supply costs, purchases, and charges.
• Manage department budget related to supplies, bracing and orthotics, as cost center contact.
• Working as liaison within the department to decrease the overall cost of orthopedic equipment. Streamlines product availability.
• Works with Team Manager to assure accurate inventory list and accurate depreciation costs are allocated to the appropriate cost center.
• Develop system to closely monitor all supplies that are ordered, and that the revenue is captured for all services.

Preferred Qualifications

• 0-2 years of relevant experience preferred.