Lead Physical Therapy Technician

Are you a team focused, high-energy, engaging individual? Do you feel comfortable with being a core team member and ensuring an exceptional experience for team members and other stakeholders? Do you want to do your part to elevate the physical therapy profession? Do you want to learn from the best in the industry?

At Spooner, Arizona's largest physical therapy private practice, we are most proud of our culture of excellence that is founded on our core values. Spooner has been helping our communities achieve health through movement for over 30 years, and we continue to grow in size and expertise every year. If you are looking to join a company where you can build a career, Spooner is the place for you.

Healthcare & Benefits

Spooner's award-winning healthcare and benefits plan is dedicated to ensuring our employees have access to health care and receive the right care, at the right time with the right provider. Spooner employees enjoy no cost expert physical therapy, hand therapy and access to a direct primary care team dedicated to keeping our team healthy.

Student loan repayment program
$500 individual and $1,000 family deductibles
Low premiums
A dedicated direct primary care medical team for Spooner employees
Dental, vision, life, and other voluntary insurances
Paid time off and holiday pay
401(k) matching
Employee Assistance Program
Many other benefits to help keep you happy and healthy

What You'll be Doing

Train and mentor new therapy technicians.
Participate in staff meetings to enhance the learning and team environment.
Participate and assist in planning of technician meetings.
Coordinate therapy technician schedules, including time off requests.
Instruct, motivate, and assist patients to learn and improve functional activities such as perambulation, transfer, ambulation, and daily-living activities.
Safeguard, motivate, and assist patients practicing exercises and functional activities under direction of professional staff. Will be required to demonstrate correct activity form or function.
Observe patients during various physical activities designed in the treatment plan, compile progress on patients' response to treatment.
Effective communication of patient progress and reactions to treatment, to the physical therapist.

Our treatment philosophy is a promise to provide an engaging experience in mind, body, and spirit, and the foundation of our assessment is grounded in the principles of Applied Functional Science (AFS).

What You Can Expect

A team environment that fosters continuous learning and fun.
A 6-month onboarding program.

What You Bring to the Role

High school diploma or GED
Minimum 18 years of age or older
Major in Kinesiology, Physical Therapy Technician Certification, prior experience or knowledge as a physical therapy technician, or interest in the field of physical therapy
Prior experience or knowledge as a physical therapy technician
CPR certification

About Spooner

Spooner is a place for professionals with a growth mindset who want to push themselves to achieve excellence. Spooner began with a vision of disrupting the status quo of healthcare, and to accelerate the use of physical and occupational therapists as primary care musculoskeletal experts. Spooner continues to grow in the greater-Phoenix area and has recently entered the Dallas-Fort Worth market. If you are interested in joining us on our journey of growth, collaboration, and disruption, you won't be disappointed.

This is not your common workplace. Fun and excellence go hand in hand at Spooner, and we provide ample opportunities to achieve both. Our commitment to our culture-first environment is evident in everything we do, and we are always looking for team members to strengthen and cultivate it.

We promise to help you achieve excellence. We will help you in developing the skills required to succeed. We will help you accelerate your career.