Rehabilitation Technician - Pediatrics - Part-Time

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is the global leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation for adults and children with the most severe, complex conditions. By joining our team, you’ll be part of our life-changing mission and vision. You’ll contribute to an innovative, multifaceted culture that is second to none — one that embraces collaboration, excellence, discovery and compassion. You’ll play a role in something that’s never been done before as we integrate science and clinical care to help patients achieve better, faster outcomes — as we Advance Human Ability, together.

The Rehabilitation Technician:

• Prepares patients for treatments or evaluation, assisting them as necessary to undress and don garments or treatment aids.
• Transfers, moves, and ambulates patients to and from department with wheelchair or stretcher.
• Assists therapist in direct patient care activities such as sensory stimulation, training programs, gait training.
• Assists therapist in patient care during treatment sessions such exercise and weight training programs, hydrotherapy, and gait training.
• Conducts therapeutic regime for patients, which includes reinforcing learnings in self-care activities such as feeding, dressing, bathing and memory training.
• Observes patients and reports reactions or changes in condition immediately to supervising nurse or therapist.
• Fabricates equipment adaptations for patients.
• Maintains adaptive equipment inventory including issuing supplies to staff and notifying appropriate personnel of deficiencies.
• Maintains clinic area in a neat organized manner and performs infection control procedures including disinfecting equipment.
• Maintains food inventory for patient use including shopping for needed supplies, dating, and rotating current supply.
• Performs clerical support when needed including reception duties, file maintenance, document distribution, library maintenance and retrieval of medical records.
• Clean and maintain SRAlab rental wheelchairs.
• Delivers/stores supplies and equipment received from Central Supply.
• Performs all other duties that may be assigned in the best interest of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.