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Serves as assistant to the Physical Therapy Director in areas of budget, personnel management, and other administrative, educational, and patient care activities at a teaching hospital offering a clinical program for physical therapy students.

This class is distinguished from that of Physical Therapy Supervisor (Institution) in that an incumbent serves as an assistant to the Physical Therapy Director and acts as "second-in-command" for the department. Responsibilities include all those assigned to lower classes, but also involves supervision, budgetary, and administrative tasks. General direction is received from the Physical Therapy Director.

Examples of duties and characteristic of positions in this class:

1. Consults regularly with Physical Therapy Supervisors and attends meetings of all levels in order to maintain staff communication and resolve problems.

2. Promotes participation of staff in research activities.

3. Responsible for budget preparation, financial expenditures, and reconciliation of accounting records.

4. Provides formal instruction to physical therapy students and serves as chairman or co-chairman of one or more committees.

Provides direct patient care for a small number of patients, as

time permits.

Reviews departmental policies and regulations, recommending

changes to Director as necessary.

7. Assists Director in recording and maintaining statistics on patient visits, diagnoses, and treatments, equipment sales, and other pertinent information.

8. Performs other related duties as required.

Graduation from an approved school of physical therapy and licensed to practice physical therapy in Virginia; three years of experience as a physical therapist in an approved hospital, at least one of which must have been in a supervisory capacity.

Thorough knowledge of skeletal and neuro-anatomy; considerable knowledge of fundamental theories of physical techniques and of their proper application, including electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, actinotherapy, thermotherapy, and massage; thorough knowledge of muscle re-education, therapeutic exercises and other aspects of body mechanics as a means of therapy. Ability to direct the work of professional therapists and to instruct new therapists, aides and students in their duties; wide knowledge of the work of a physical therapy clinic and the ability to supervise the maintenance of accurate records on the work; ability to give all accepted physical therapy treatments.