PTA: Elevate Mobility in Home Health Care

Jobtome; Enola (AR); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

401k contribution

Equity stock purchase plan

Job summary

Amedisys, part of the Optum family, offers home health, hospice, and community-based services. The PTA role will work under a licensed Physical Therapist to implement individualized treatment plans at patients' homes, improving mobility, strength and balance while ensuring safety and quality of life.

Responsibilities include documentation, monitoring responses, participating in team activities, coordinating follow-up care, and contributing to quality improvement efforts.

Qualifications

• Current license to practice as a physical therapy assistant, specific to the state you're assigned to work in.
• Graduate from an accredited physical therapy assistant educational program as set by the Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE).
• One year related physical therapy experience for PTAs entering home health care to ensure that knowledge and skills are sufficient to safely provide physical therapy services to patients.
• If less than one year of experience, approval from regional clinical leaders is required as well as appropriate mentoring and/or participating in a residency program.
• Current CPR certification.

Responsibilities

• Provides physical therapy services and interventions under the direction and supervision of a physical therapist and in accordance with the physician approved plan of care
• Observes, records and reports the patient's response to treatment and any change in the patient's condition to the supervising PT, physician and other appropriate clinical staff
• Provides resources for future needs and promotes wellness and prevention
• Includes documentation of supervisory activities in the patient's medical record
• Monitors and documents the patient's response to physical therapy intervention
• 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 agency that admitted the patient and utilizes other agency care providers to assist with referrals to community resources
• Performs other duties as assigned

Skills

PTA license

CPR certification

Home health experience

Education

PTA degree (CAPTE-accredited)

Job description

Amedisys, part of the Optum family, offers home health, hospice, and community-based services. The PTA role will work under a licensed Physical Therapist to implement individualized treatment plans at patients' homes, improving mobility, strength and balance while ensuring safety and quality of life.

Responsibilities include documentation, monitoring responses, participating in team activities, coordinating follow-up care, and contributing to quality improvement efforts.