Massage Therapist
We are looking for a Massage Therapist to join our team!!
Schedule: 5 days per week
Hours per week: 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday
Benefits: Absolutely, RAMC has a competitive benefits package!
Position Summary:
The Massage Therapist works in the Massage Therapy department and performs massages for private pay clients, IP's and community agencies.
Job Relationships:
Reports to Director of Rehab Services; collaborates with Rehab Services team, support staff and health care members.
Primary Customer Served:
- Neonatal (0 - 30 days)
- Infant ( 31 days - 1 year)
- Pediatric ( 1 - 12 years)
- Adolescent ( 13 - 18 years)
- Adult (19 - 65 years)
- Geriatric ( > 66 years)
- RAMC Employees
- Community
Education and Training Required:
- State of Wisconsin licensed as Massage Therapist or Bodywork Therapist.
- Membership in professional association preferred.
- Completion of an accredited massage therapy program.
- Knowledgeable in various modalities of massage.
- CPR certification.
Experience:
- Previous massage experience in hot stone, Swedish, deep tissue and reflexology preferred.
Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Able to communicate and work effectively with others.
- Demonstrates teaching ability.
- Able to exercise independent judgement.
- Maintains good physical and emotional well-being.
- Presents self in professional manner.
- Reliable transportation necessary for off site chair massages.
Physical Requirements:
Physical Demands
- Dynamic Strength - The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Arm-Hand Strength - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Manual Dexterity - The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Multilimbed Coordination - The ability to coordinate two or more limbs ( or example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Trunk Strength - The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
- Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Stamina - The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Frequently stand and walk.
- Occasionally bending squatting, crouching.
- Rarely life up to 50 pounds with transferring and positioning clients.
Sight:
- Frequently use near sighted vision acuity for reading, writing, assessing skin integrity.
Cognition/Communication:
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Service Orientation - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Environmental Conditions:
- Constant indoor, patient environment.
Potential Hazards:
- Occasional exposure to infectious blood/body fluids and disease requiring isolation, red infectious waste, toxic/caustic chemical hazards and hazardous waste, needles/syringes/sharps, potential physical harm and moving mechanical parts while performing patient care.
Psychological, Situational, Functional Factors:
- Sufficiently use interpersonal skills to work closely with others including patients, family members and coworkers.
- Frequently show flexibility in dealing with frequently changing tasks, schedule and requirements on your time.
- Frequently use problem solving and analyzing skills with speed, consistency and accuracy in job performance.
- Frequently work alone under stressful situations.
- Occasionally be able to commit to a job task for a period of time or with sustained concentration.
- Occasionally be creative, be able to direct, plan or monitor activities of others, and be able to use judgment/decision making skills.
- Occasionally be able to manage conflict or difficult situations either with patients, family members or coworkers.