Job description

What You Will Do
Responsible for helping patients maintain, restore, and improve movement, activity, and function thereby enabling optimal performance and enhancing health, well-being, and quality of life. Under a physician approved plan of care, this position is responsible for providing interventions, conducting reexaminations, modifying interventions as necessary, and performing discharge planning.

• Provides a comprehensive patient examination / evaluation at the initial visit upon receipt of referral.
• Reassesses the patient at a minimum of every 30 days. Makes necessary revisions to the patient’s plan of care in conjunction with the physician and documents the patient’s continual care needs.
• Provides physical therapy patient/client management, including interventions in accordance with the physician approved plan of care.
• Provides documentation of each visit according to the APTA Documentation Guidelines and accepted regulatory standards for inclusion in the patient’s clinical record.
• Provides coordination of care by participating in interdisciplinary team and by observing, recording, and reporting the patient’s response to treatment and any change in the patient’s condition to the team.
• Identifies the patient’s need for other disciplines and services and initiates the appropriate referrals. Provides resources for future needs.
• Acts as a consultant to other care providers as needed.
• Completes OASIS assessments timely, accurately, and according to OASIS user’s manual definitions.
• Supervises Physical Therapy Assistants (PTA) in accordance with applicable municipal, state, and federal rules and regulations.
• Provides consistent patient care oversight.
• Remains accessible by telecommunication, conducts regularly scheduled and documented conferences with the PTA, and makes supervisory visits to the patient.
• Assesses competence of PTA in performing assigned activities.
• Remains available upon request of the PTA for reexamination of the patient in instances of a noted change in the patient’s medical status, response to interventions or a discharge or discontinuation from physical therapy services.
• Includes documentation of supervisory activities in the patient’s medical record.

• Participates in patient care conferences, in-services, chart audit activities, quality improvement activities including OBQI and OBQM, and peer-review activities.
• Maintains confidentiality of information relating to the physical therapist-client relationship.
• Makes recommendations for follow-up care in coordination with the care center that admitted the patient and utilizes other care center care providers to assist with referrals to community resources.
• Supervises the Home Health Aide when SN is not active in the case. Communicates plan of care changes to the Aide and other appropriate staff as necessary.
• Keeps abreast of physical therapy trends and knowledge for the service provision, documentation, and care coordination.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Geriatrics
• Home Health

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

License/Certification:

• Physical Therapy License (Required)

Work Location: On the road

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