PRN Physical Therapist Assistant.Outpatient Streetsboro
University hospitalsStreetsboro, Ohio, United States
Posted December 31, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
University Hospitals is a leading integrated health system founded in 1866, operating 23 hospitals, 50+ health centers, and 200 physician offices across 16 counties in northern Ohio. Its flagship quaternary care campus, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, is a top‑ranked academic medical center affiliated with Case Western Reserve University, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Oxford University, and the Technion, and hosts the nationally recognized UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, UH MacDonald Women’s Hospital, and the NCI‑designated UH Seidman Cancer Center. The system delivers comprehensive specialty care—including oncology, cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, pediatrics, and transplant services—while supporting more than 3,000 concurrent clinical trials and research studies across 19 Clinical Care Delivery and Research Institutes. With a workforce of over 30,000 employees and a reputation for excellence reflected in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” rankings, University Hospitals exemplifies a patient‑centric, research‑driven approach that sets industry standards in quality, innovation, and community impact.
Job Description
Physical therapist assistants (PTAs) work under licensed physical therapists to help people with physical injuries or illnesses regain range of movement and control their pain.
Requirements
- Provide physical therapy services under the direction and supervision of a licensed physical therapist
- Instruct, motivate, safeguard, and assist patients as they practice exercises or functional activities
- Administer active or passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, aquatic physical therapy, or heat, light, sound, or electrical modality treatments
- Measure patients' range-of-joint motion, body parts, or vital signs to determine effects of treatments or for patient evaluations
- Communicate with or instruct caregivers or family members on patient therapeutic activities or treatment plans
- Clean work area and check and store equipment after treatment
- Perform clerical duties such as taking inventory, ordering supplies, answering telephone, taking messages, or filling out forms
- Administer traction to relieve neck or back pain, using intermittent or static traction equipment
- Prepare treatment areas and electrotherapy equipment for use by physiotherapists
- Identify patient’s needs and exhibit compassion, caring, and empathy to individual differences
- Recommend options, courses of action or modifications in selected treatments ensuring patient’s progress, safety and comfort
- Apply the latest research related to restoring function, reducing symptoms frequency, and preventing injury
- Complete documentation to support the delivery of physical therapy services
- Participate in patient status judgments
- Adhere to ethical and legal standards
- Ensure continued competence and updated field knowledge
- Assesses learning needs, develops competency plans and provides opportunities for learning
- Participate in quality standards and identify opportunities to improve patient outcomes
- Develop and maintain favorable internal relationships, partnerships with co-workers
- Collaborate with all members of the care team in providing patient-centered care
