Licensed Physical Therapist Assistant

Prava Therapy; Poway (CA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Prava Therapy is seeking a Part-Time Physical Therapist Assistant to support memory care residents under the supervision of a PT. You’ll deliver meaningful, function-focused interventions and practice mobility in real-world environments where residents live.

The role emphasizes adaptation to individual routines, using cueing, collaboration with caregivers, and forming relationships that honor dignity and independence.

Qualifications

• Provide skilled interventions under the direction of the PT.
• Address gait, balance, transfers, strength, endurance, and functional mobility.
• Practice mobility in environments where residents actually live.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled interventions under the direction of the PT
• Address gait, balance, transfers, strength, endurance, and functional mobility
• Practice mobility in the environments where residents actually live
• Incorporate real-world routines and meaningful activities into treatment
• Use cueing and repetition to support carryover
• Identify environmental barriers that affect mobility and safety
• Partner with caregivers and community staff
• Help residents maintain mobility, participation, and independence
• Build relationships with residents and learn the person behind the diagnosis

Skills

Dementia care

Mobility assessment

Collaborative care

Observation and creativity

Communication with caregivers

Job description

Part-Time Physical Therapist Assistant | Memory Care | Practice Therapy Where Life Happens

What if being a great PTA meant looking beyond the treatment session?

At Prava, we believe Memory Care therapy is about more than exercises, repetitions, and walking distance.

It's about helping someone continue to move through their world with confidence, safety, and dignity.

We're looking for a Part-Time Physical Therapist Assistant who wants to practice that way.

We dont just work bankers' hours.

Because residents dont live bankers' hours.

Sometimes the most meaningful mobility work happens at dinner.

Walking to an activity.

Practicing a transfer during an actual routine.

Navigating a familiar hallway.

Helping a resident safely participate in something they love.

We go where the function is.

We dont expect the resident to fit the therapy.

We adapt the therapy to the resident.

A resident living with dementia may not be able to explain why something has become difficult.

Maybe the environment is overwhelming.

Maybe the routine has changed.

Maybe the cueing needs to be different.

Maybe the task needs to be simplified.

Maybe we need to change our approach.

As a PTA, you'll work under the direction of the PT to help figure out what works for this person, in this environment, at this moment.

Your role

You’ll provide meaningful, function-focused interventions to residents living with dementia.

You’ll have opportunities to:

• Provide skilled interventions under the direction of the PT
• Address gait, balance, transfers, strength, endurance, and functional mobility
• Practice mobility in the environments where residents actually live
• Incorporate real-world routines and meaningful activities into treatment
• Use appropriate cueing and repetition to support carryover
• Identify environmental barriers that affect mobility and safety
• Partner with caregivers and community staff
• Help residents maintain mobility, participation, and independence
• Build relationships with residents and learn the person behind the diagnosis

We believe Memory Care therapy starts with the person.

Not the diagnosis.

Not the behavior.

Not the impairment.

The person.

What matters to them?

What routines are familiar?

Where do they feel successful?

What helps them feel safe?

What can we change?

Those questions should influence how we deliver therapy.

We\'re looking for a PTA who:

• Loves working with older adults living with dementia
• Believes mobility is about participation—not simply distance
• Is patient, observant, creative, and adaptable
• Understands the importance of environment and routine
• Builds relationships naturally
• Is comfortable collaborating with PTs, caregivers, and community teams
• Wants to practice clinically rather than simply follow a formula
• Doesnt believe every therapy session needs to happen in a therapy room

If you\'ve ever thought, “There has to be a better way to do therapy in Memory Care,” you\'ll probably like Prava.

Because we don\'t just want to help someone walk farther.

We want to help them keep moving through the life they know.

And sometimes the most important therapy of the day happens after 5 p.m.

Come practice PT where life happens.

Come practice Prava.