What are the responsibilities and job description for the Rehab Aide position at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center?
Duties and Responsibilities
70% of time – Patient Care 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.
20% of the time - Overall equipment maintenance
- 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- Work with public relations department to assure all outdated excessive equipment is donated to a designated charity, as appropriate.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.
10% of the time – Business and Financial Management
- 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.
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
High School graduate or equivalent. 0 years of relevant experience required. 0-2 years of relevant experience preferred.
