Per Visit PT - Home Health (Per Diem) $75

Innovive Health; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Innovive Health is seeking a Physical Therapist to deliver in-home rehabilitation services across Des Moines, IA. You will conduct comprehensive evaluations, develop plans, and guide patients through exercises and safety training in their own homes.

Responsibilities include performing initial assessments, arranging DME when needed, documenting progress, and coordinating with physicians and care teams to ensure seamless discharge planning.

Qualifications

• Degree in Physical Therapy from an accredited university.
• Valid license to practice Physical Therapy within the state of Massachusetts.
• Possess and maintains current CPR Certification.
• Valid Driver's License.
• Home care experience required.

Responsibilities

• Conducts home physical therapy visits and perform evaluations, start of care, follow up visits, discharges and OASIS evaluation, re-cert and discharges.
• Meets the patient's goals and needs and provides quality care by assessing and interpreting evaluations and test results, determining physical therapy treatment plans in consultation with physicians or by prescription.
• Helps patient accomplish treatment plan by instructing, encouraging, and assisting patients in performing physical activities, such as therapeutic exercises, gait/ambulation training, neuromuscular re-education, coordination, transfer training, and educating patient’s on safety and fall prevention in the home to improve patient’s ability to participate in activities of daily living.
• Assess patient’s vitals BP, HR, SaO2 as needed for patient safety and report abnormal findings to Rehabilitation Director hand PCP.
• Educates and instructs patients on proper use of durable medical equipment (DME), such as walkers, grab bars, shower chairs, wheelchairs, crutches, canes, and prostheses, and order DME when appropriate.
• Accurately and thoroughly documents patient response to physical therapy by observing, noting, and evaluating patient's progress; recommends adjustments and modifications as related to rehab potential.
• Completes discharge planning by consulting with physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health care workers involved in patient care.
• Educates on importance of continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge by designing home exercise programs; instructs patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs; recommends and/or providing assistive equipment; recommends outpatient or home health follow-up programs.
• Effectively communicates with supporting staff SN, OT, PT/PTA, SLP, MD.

Skills

CPR Certification

Home health experience

Driver's License

Education

Degree in Physical Therapy

Job description

Innovive Health is seeking a Physical Therapist to deliver in-home rehabilitation services across Des Moines, IA. You will conduct comprehensive evaluations, develop plans, and guide patients through exercises and safety training in their own homes.

Responsibilities include performing initial assessments, arranging DME when needed, documenting progress, and coordinating with physicians and care teams to ensure seamless discharge planning.