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Occupational Therapist

General Summary
An exempt position responsible for helping patients improve their ability to perform tasks in their daily living and working environments. Patients may have conditions that are mentally, physically, developmentally or emotionally disabling.

Essential Job Responsibilities
1. Assesses patients and develops treatment plans in collaboration with physicians and other clinicians.
2. Assists patients to develop, recover, or maintain daily living and work skills. Helps patients to improve their basic motor functions and reasoning ability and to compensate for any permanent loss of function to reach the goal of having independent, productive, and satisfying lives.
3. Helps patients in performing a variety of activities from operating a computer to dealing with daily needs such as dressing cooking, and eating.
4. Assists with patients with exercises that increase strength and dexterity, visual acuity, and the ability to discern patterns.
5. Uses variety of equipment during treatment including computer programs to help patients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, problem solving, perceptual skills, memory, sequencing, and coordination to aid in independent living.
6. Teaches patients, particularly those with permanent disabilities such as spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, or muscular dystrophy, in the use of adaptive equipment including wheelchairs, orthotics, and aids for eating and dressing.
7. Follows medical practice policies related to compliance, safety, and infection control. Documents patient treatment and outcomes in medical record.

Education
Bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from accredited school plus master’s degree in field. Current state occupational therapist license, successful completion of national certification examination. Current CPR certificate.

Experience
Minimum two years of experience, preferably in clinic setting.

Performance Requirements Knowledge
1. Knowledge of occupational therapy principles, standards and applications.
2. Knowledge of physical, biological, and behavioral sciences as well as application of occupational therapy equipment, devices, and patient-specific therapeutic devices. Understanding of how to modify equipment as needed.
3. Knowledge of clinic policies and regulations related to infection control, safety. And quality improvement.

Abilities
1. Ability to collaborate with patients, families, and employers to modify workplace or home environment in line with patient’s condition, including identification of environmental factors and hazards.
2. Ability to communicate with patients and families in caring and compassionate manner to encourage behavioral changes.
3. Ability to analyze patient data and behavior and modify treatment plan as appropriate.

Skills
1. Skill in evaluating and treating patients.
2. Kill in proper use of occupational therapy equipment and devices.
3. Skill in assessing and recording patient activities and progress.

Equipment Operated
Variety of therapeutic equipment including wheelchairs, orthotics, and aids for activities of daily living. Computer hardware and software for record keeping.

Work environment
Medical office and exam room settings. May also require visits to patient homes and workplaces. Exposure to communicable diseases, biohazards, and conditions related to clinic setting.

Mental/Physical Requirements
Involves standing, sitting, walking, bending, stooping, and twisting. Must be able to transport/ transfer patient safely. Occasional need to lift/ carry and move equipment and supplies weighing up to 50+ pounds. Some stress related to dealing with concerns of patients and families.

 

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Physical Therapist

General Summary
An exempt position responsible for rehabilitating persons with physical disabilities. Patients include accident victims and individuals with disabling conditions such as back pain, arthritis, and fractures. May specialize in orthopedics and sports medicine.

Essential Job Responsibilities
1. Helps to restore physical function, improve mobility, relieve pain and prevent permanent disability. Assists in restoring, maintaining, and promoting overall fitness and health.
2. Examines patients’ medical histories. Tests and measures patients’ strength, range of motion, balance and coordination, posture, muscle performance, respiration, and motor function.
3. Determines patients’ ability to be independent and reintegrate into the workplace or community after injury or illness.
4. Develops plans describing a treatment strategy, its purposes, and its anticipated outcome. Plan often includes exercise regimens at the clinic and at home to increase flexibility, strength, or endurance. May use the electrical stimulation, hot packs, cold compresses and ultrasound to relive pain and reduce swelling.
5. Teaches patients how to use assistive and adaptive devices such as crutches, prosthesis, and wheelchairs.
6. Documents patients’ progress, conducts periodic examinations, and modifies treatments with emphasis on identification of areas requiring more/ less attention.
Education Bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from an accredited program; successful competition of clinical internship. Master’s degree in physical therapy preferred.

Experience
Minimum two years of experience as a physical therapist, preferably in a clinic setting. Current state physical therapist license. Current CPR certificate.

Performance Requirements Knowledge
1. Knowledge of basic science including biology, chemistry, and physics as well as biomechanics, neuroanatomy, and disease manifestations.
2. Knowledge of medical practice policies/ procedures, regulations, safety/ injection control, and quality assurance requirements.
3. Knowledge of examination techniques and therapeutic procedures.

Abilities
1. Ability to effectively communicate interpersonally in order to educate patients about their physical therapy treatments.
2. Ability to demonstrate compassion and desire to help patients.
3. Ability to analyze data and modify treatment plans as appropriate.

Skills
1. Skill in appropriate evaluation and treatment of patients including hands-on procedures such as deep-tissue massage.
2. Skill in using physical therapy equipment by consistently using devices appropriately to improve patient health status.
3. Skill in effectively maintaining equipment; successful completion of related competency testing.

Equipment Operated
Often demonstrates and helps patients use assistive and adaptive devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, and canes. Operates physical therapy equipment such as ultrasound, traction, and electrical stimulation.

Work environment
Medical office, exam rooms, and specially equipped therapy facilities. Exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances and biohazards.

Mental/Physical Requirements
Often have to stoop, kneel, crouch, lift, and stand for long periods. Frequently move heavy equipment, lift patients or help them turn, stand or walk. Occasionally must be able to lift and carry 50+ pounds. Periodic stress from workload or anxious patients.

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Front Desk Specialist (Check In/ Check Out)

Description: A non-exempt position responsible for greeting patients, customers, and vendors;  Checking patients in/out for their appointments;  Directing vendors and visitors to the appropriate area and/or staff personnel; Collecting co-payments and balance payments; Providing friendly customer service to all patients.

Education: High school diploma or equivalent.  Minimum two (2) years experience as a Medical Receptionist preferred.

Requirements:

Knowledge

  1. Medical terminology a plus

 Abilities

  1. Ability to type 40wpm
  2. Ability to multi-task and work under pressure

Skills

  1. Strong written and communication skills
  2. Excellent interpersonal/ customer service skills
  3. Strong attention-to-detail skills

Mental/Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  •  Regularly required to sit, at least 60-70% of the day
  • Use hands to type, handle or feel
  • Reach with hands and arms
  • Talk or Hear
  • Occasionally required to walk and stoop, kneel, or crouch
  • Frequently lift 0-20 lbs.
  • Vision Ability to include close, distance, peripheral, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Salary: Hourly + Benefits

 

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Physician’s Assistant

Location: Riverside, South Side, Ponte Vedra, Clay County, Orange Park       

Description

An exempt position responsible for practicing medicine with physician supervision including conducting examinations and writing prescriptions. Within physician-physician assistant (PA) relationship, PA exercise autonomy in medical decision making and provide a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services. May include responsibility for education, research, and administrative services.

Requirements   

  1. Conducts physical exams, assesses health status, orders and interprets tests, prescribes medications, and treats illnesses including giving injections and suturing wounds. Consults with physicians as needed and refers to physicians for more complicated medical cases or cases that are not a routine part of a PA’s scope of work.
  2. Monitors therapies and provides continuity of care.
  3. Triage patient calls and evaluates patient problems. Responds to emergencies including use of CPR.
  4. Counsels patient/ family on preventative health care.
  5. Documents patient information and care in medical record and may maintain department statistical database for research purposes.

Education           

Bachelor’s degree and successful completion of accredited physician assistant program.  National certification from National Commission on Certifications of PAs. To maintain their national certification, PAs must log 100 hours of continuing medical education every two years and sit for a re-certification every six years. State PA license also required. Current CPR certificate required.

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Clinical Assistant

Location: Riverside, Southside, Orange Park, Ponte Vedra Beach

Type: 40

Salary: Hourly + Benefits

Description:

  • Interviews patients to obtain all pertinent information, including history of present illness.
  • Enters all patient data into the EMR system. Draw up injections as needed. Pull up pateint charts and diagnostic studies.
  • Remove sutures and staples and provide basic wound care. Assist providers with in-office procedures such as aspirations, injections, etc.
  • Stock all exam rooms and clean rooms between patients, including removal of biomedical waste.
  • Schedule patient appointments when necessary and call in prescriptions per physican protocols.
  • Various other clerical/clinical duties as needed.

Requirements:

  • Strong written, communication and computer skills.
  • Basic understanding of ICD-9 and CPT codes.
  • Must posess excellent interpersonal/customer service skills.
  • Need strong attention-to-detail skills.
  • Experience as an MA preferred.
  • NextGen experience a plus.

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Communications Specialist

Location: Southside

Type: Full Time

Salary: Hourly + Benefits

Description:

Duties for the position include answering incoming telephone calls, scheduling appointments, taking messages, transferring calls; provide callers with general information such as directions to our offices, answer questions about the organization and various other administrative duties.

Requirements:

Must have previous scheduling, customer service experience, be computer literate, and have the ability to type 40+ wpm. Previous call center/scheduling center and/or multi-line phone equipment experience preferred. Ideal candidate will also have previous EHR/EMR and medical office experience. Excellent attendance record mandatory.

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