Mobility Technician-Physical Therapy-Full Time and Part Time
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Jackson, MS - Main Campus
- Aug 23, 2025
Job Description
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Job Requisition ID:
R00045252Job Category:
Allied HealthOrganization:
Mobility TechsLocation/s:
Main Campus JacksonJob Title:
Mobility Technician-Physical Therapy-Full Time and Part TimeJob Summary:
To assist nursing and therapy in the delivery of patient mobility services.Education & Experience
Education and Experience Required:
High school diploma/GED
Certifications, Licenses, or Registration:
N/A
Preferred Qualifications:
Work experience in a clinical setting
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Understanding of common medical terminology, anatomy and physiology Takes initiative to complete work and meets productivity standards. Customer service skills. Follow directions as communicated in a variety of ways. Knowledge of Infection Control and Injury Prevention theories and strategies Learns quickly and through multiple channels. Effectively communicate verbally and in writing. Basic math skills, such as adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Organizational skills.
Responsibilities:
- Spends day on assigned nursing unit
- Communicates with nursing prior to seeing each patient, to obtain updated patient status.
- Transports patients for hospital discharge and assists with vehicle transfers as needed.
- Rounds {will triage rounding importance based on nursing communication)
- Boost or reposition patient in bed
- Assist with BSC transfers or walk to bathroom
- Mobilizes patients based on BMAT level
- Gets patients up for meals and throughout the day
- Assist patient to the chair and back to bed as appropriate
- Walks patient in hall as appropriate
- Provides feedback to nursing on unidentified fall precaution needs and skin integrity, LDA issues, patient concerns, etc
- For patients with both therapy and mobility program orders, mobility tech communicates with OT/PT to determine any specific mobility needs.
- Develop as a resource for patient mobility, serving as a mentor to floor staff in environmental set up, the use of devices, mobility techniques and body mechanics to safely promote the highest level of patient mobility.
- Assists nursing, as requested, for patients with in-bed positioning needs.
- Builds a trusting relationship with the patient.
- Provide dear and effective patient communication about the importance of mobility, vertical positioning, falls risks and out of bed activity as appropriate
- Increases patient morale and patient satisfaction through daily encouragement and increased autonomy
- Documents each session in EPIC
- The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.
Environmental and Physical Demands:
Requires occasional exposure to bio-hazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne
particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional working hours significantly beyond
regularly scheduled hours, occasional traveling to off site locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/
clinical nature, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds, occasional crawling, frequent crouching/stooping,
frequent kneeling, frequent pushing/pulling, constant reaching, occasional sitting, constant standing, frequent twisting, and constant walking.
(occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)
Time Type:
Full timeFLSA Designation/Job Exempt:
NoPay Class:
HourlyFTE %:
100Work Shift:
Benefits Eligibility:
Grant Funded:
Job Posting Date:
08/22/2025Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):
The University of Mississippi Medical Center, located in Jackson, is the state’s only academic medical center. UMMC encompasses five health science schools, including medicine, nursing, health related professions, dentistry and graduate studies, as well as the site where University of Mississippi pharmacy students do their clinical training.
The Medical Center’s health-care enterprise includes five hospitals and University Physicians, the faculty group practice. The Medical Center’s threefold mission is to educate tomorrow’s health-care professionals, conduct innovative research to improve human health, and to provide the highest quality care available to the state’s population. A major goal of the Medical Center is the improvement of the health of Mississippians and the elimination of health disparities.
