{"id":4653,"date":"2024-02-14T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/?page_id=4653"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:42:11","slug":"physical-therapy-assistant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/classified-staff\/physical-therapy-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Therapy Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>21381 (NE H SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional)<br \/>\n23012 (NE H NI SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional)<\/p>\n<p><strong>BASIC FUNCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perform physical therapy treatments and assist the physical therapist with tests and measurements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Single class \u2013 no series. Under general supervision, assist with physical therapy treatments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPICAL WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prepare patient and environment for therapy;<\/p>\n<p>Implement treatment to patients with moderate to complex diagnoses, as directed by the physical therapist;<\/p>\n<p>Report changes in patients&#8217; status to therapist;<\/p>\n<p>Participate in rounds for assigned patients;<\/p>\n<p>Schedule assigned patients and departmental duties;<\/p>\n<p>Assist the therapist in performing patient evaluations and tests;<\/p>\n<p>Write progress notes; assist in completing informational forms;<\/p>\n<p>Conduct hydrotherapy treatments of patients;<\/p>\n<p>Maintain a clean, safe working environment;<\/p>\n<p>Maintain therapeutic equipment;<\/p>\n<p>Complete charge documents for patient services;<\/p>\n<p>May assist in instructing and evaluating students;<\/p>\n<p>May perform clerical duties;<\/p>\n<p>Perform other duties as required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Associate of Science Degree in Physical Therapy from an accredited program that includes patient treatment affiliation. Physical ability to move patients and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Equivalent education and\/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and\/or registration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEGAL REQUIREMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Current Washington State license to practice as Physical Therapist Assistant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLASSIFICATION HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>02\/12\/2024: Class spec written<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP 21381 (NE H SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional) 23012 (NE H NI SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional) BASIC FUNCTION Perform physical therapy treatments and assist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4653","page","type-page","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9496,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4653\/revisions\/9496"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}