Home Health OT Assistant - Compassionate Patient Care

Atrium Health Enterprise; Charlotte (NC); Sur place; USD 70 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Atrium Health is seeking a Home Health Physical Therapist to manage an assigned patient caseload in the Charlotte area. You will deliver therapies, collect assessments, document outcomes, and educate patients and families for home-based care in alignment with physician orders.

You will coordinate with a multidisciplinary team, adapt plans as needed, and maintain compliant documentation, while supporting discharge planning and continuity of care across visits and settings.

Responsabilités

• Responsible for the daily management of an assigned patient caseload, ensuring timely care and documentation to meet the patient needs/services as prescribed in the established plan of care and per MD orders
• Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation from patient assessments in the home setting, telephonic contacts and/or related EMR information available.
• Implements patient care programs including necessary modalities, procedures, exercise programs, and patient education as established by the OT.
• Documents and implements a plan of care to meet patient and family needs, to include discharge planning and utilization of available resources.
• Demonstrates clinical reasoning, coupled with clinical skills to conduct accurate clinical assessments and perform patient care activities; evaluates effectiveness of therapy interventions, identifies and prioritizes patient/family strength, needs and priorities.
• Provides and documents patient and family education in regard to deficits, progress toward goals, and therapeutic techniques, with individualized instruction for a home program including equipment use.
• Maintains communication with multidisciplinary team providing updates and changes in schedules, patient data or needs, and physician orders.
• Incorporates short and long-term goals established in the plan of care into therapy, as evidenced by documentation in visit notes.
• Supports effective communication and collaboration with the physician oversight, and branch PT/ leaderships supervision to ensure timely feedback regarding patients' condition and/or need for changes in the plan of care.
• Remains and performs ordered treatments, therapies, and/or procedures in accordance with State Physical Therapy Practice Act and Home Health Conditions of Participation, TJC, Medicare Guidelines, OASIS and agency policy and procedures
• Promotes shared governance and decision making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.

Description du poste

Atrium Health is seeking a Home Health Physical Therapist to manage an assigned patient caseload in the Charlotte area. You will deliver therapies, collect assessments, document outcomes, and educate patients and families for home-based care in alignment with physician orders.

You will coordinate with a multidisciplinary team, adapt plans as needed, and maintain compliant documentation, while supporting discharge planning and continuity of care across visits and settings.