Job Description

Your job is more than a job.

💙 Make a Difference Every Day

As a Rehabilitation Technician, you'll be an essential member of a multidisciplinary therapy team, helping patients recover from injury, illness, or adapt to disability. Under the direction of physicians and licensed rehabilitation therapists, you'll support patients during some of their most vulnerable moments and play a meaningful role in their physical and emotional recovery.

You'll build relationships with patients, collaborate with caregivers and clinical staff, and celebrate every milestone along the rehabilitation journey. Your empathy, compassion, flexibility, and commitment to exceptional patient care are what make you the perfect fit for this rewarding role.

🎯 Position Summary

The Rehabilitation Technician assists rehabilitation therapists and clinical staff in providing quality patient care while maintaining a safe, organized, and efficient therapy environment. This role supports patient treatment activities, equipment maintenance, inventory management, and administrative functions within the rehabilitation department.

🛠️ Your Everyday

• Provide physical assistance to therapists during patient treatment sessions and seek clarification when needed to ensure safe and effective care.
• Maintain a safe environment for patients, visitors, and team members.
• Clean and disinfect therapy equipment according to established procedures and infection control standards.
• Monitor and document temperatures for refrigerators, freezers, hydrocollators, and paraffin units; notify Biomedical Services and leadership when temperatures fall outside established ranges.
• Follow daily schedules and assignments provided by supervisors and therapists.
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability when responding to schedule changes or departmental needs.
• Maintain therapy supply inventory, monitor stock levels, and distribute supplies to designated areas.
• Perform clerical and administrative duties, including greeting patients, escorting or transporting patients, and providing general departmental support.

✅ The Must-Haves

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience required.
• Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
• Previous experience as a Therapy Aide, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Rehabilitation Aide, or related healthcare support role required.

🌟 What You'll Bring

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Compassion and empathy for patients and families.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Commitment to patient safety and quality care.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced clinical environment.

🎉 Why Join Us?

Every day, you'll have the opportunity to help patients achieve greater independence and celebrate meaningful progress in their recovery journey. If you're passionate about patient care and thrive in a collaborative healthcare environment, we'd love to meet you.

Join our team and help transform lives—one patient, one milestone, and one success story at a time. ✨

WORK SHIFT:

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

About East Jefferson General Hospital

East Jefferson General Hospital, a landmark of LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been the go-to hospital for health, wellness, and one-of-a-kind care in East Jefferson Parish for over 50 years. And we’re only beginning to realize our greatest potential. Learn more about East Jefferson General Hospital and our legacy, our future, and our national recognition as a Nurse Magnet Hospital.

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

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