Physical Therapist Home Health - #249211

All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

Sign on bonus of up to $5,000

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Location: This position will primarily do visits in our "Team Orange" area which primarily covers the following areas and surrounding areas in the West Orlando, Downtown Orlando, Pine Hills, Windermere, and Ocoee area which focuses on but is not limited to the following zip codes: 34760, 34787, 34734, 34786, 34761, 32818, 32835, 32819, 32811, 32808, 32810, 32714, 32804, 32805, 32839, 32806, 32801

The Community You’ll Be Caring For

• Faith based and Mission driven agency
• Flexible scheduling
• One-on-one patient care in the patient’s home environment
• Joint Commission Deemed Status accredited agency
• Competitive pay with no state income tax
• Commitment to workplace wellness and exceptional health and benefits offerings
  
  

The Role You’ll Contribute

The Home Health Physical Therapist (PT) Care manager is a professional therapist who coordinates and directs the Home Health patient's services based on individual patient needs. The PT Care manager is responsible for independent management of the Home Health patient population requiring the use of advanced assessment, teaching and decision making skills. The PT is responsible for ensuring that appropriate referrals to other services are made, interdisciplinary conferencing takes pace regularly, and appropriate documentation is completed. Relevant knowledge and experience is consistently applied to new patient populations. The PT Care manager cares for a caseload of home health patients requiring therapy as the primary service by evaluating the patient for appropriateness of home health and developing the Home Health plan in conjunction with the physician. S/he educates patients, families, caregivers and community providers to safely perform care. S/he provides follow up by evaluating effectiveness of the Home Health plan, and monitoring patient/family's response to the plan to achieve patient/family goals and top decile outcomes. The PT Care manager also identifies performance improvement and home health standard of care initiatives and assists to design or implement programs to address needed changes.

The Value You’ll Bring To The Team

• Coordinates and directs the care of a caseload of home patients requiring physical therapy as the primary skill. Provides comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation for that caseload as the primary Care manager.
• Sets priorities of Home Health caseload adapting to the changing needs of the Home Health patients and families. Optimizes schedule daily to support productivity, efficiency and maintain best practice visit utilization.
• Performs an evaluation, assessing function using a method which objectively measures activities of daily living such as, but not limited to, eating, swallowing, bathing, dressing, toileting, walking, climbing stairs, using assistive devices and mental and cognitive factors, documenting the measurement results in the clinical record.
• Utilizing assessment data, formulates a patient specific plan of care along with the patient, family and physician which is feasible within the physical, financial and emotional resources of the family. Establishes individualized, realistic, measurable patient centered goals in consultation with the patient, family and other health care providers including goals to improve or stabilize patient's medical condition, functional abilities and promote independence. Considers the physical, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, age specific and educational needs of the patient when developing the plan of care.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

The expertise and experiences you’ll need to succeed:

• One plus year of experience
• Minimum of one year of relevant clinical physical therapy experience
• Graduated from an approved physical therapy curriculum as required by the state which issued the license
• Active American Heart Association BLS
• Driver’s License
• Active Florida Physical Therapist license
  
  

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances. The salary range reflects the anticipated base pay range for this position. Individual compensation is determined based on skills, experience and other relevant factors within this pay range. The minimums and maximums for each position may vary based on geographical