Physical Therapist PT Home Health

Physical Therapist PT Home Health at Advent Health Home Health and Hospice summary:
The Physical Therapist (PT) Home Health Care Manager at Advent Health oversees and coordinates therapy services for home care patients by conducting assessments, developing individualized care plans, and monitoring patient progress. They collaborate with physicians, families, and interdisciplinary teams to optimize patient outcomes and ensure compliance with home health care standards. This role requires clinical expertise, advanced decision-making, and commitment to patient-centered care in a home health setting.
Physical Therapist PT Home Health at Advent Health Home Health and Hospice summary:
The Physical Therapist (PT) Home Health Care Manager oversees and coordinates therapy services for home care patients, conducting assessments, developing individualized care plans, and monitoring patient progress. They collaborate with physicians, families, and interdisciplinary teams to optimize patient outcomes and ensure compliance with home health standards. This role requires clinical expertise, advanced decision-making, and a commitment to patient-centered care in a home health setting.
Physical Therapist Care Manager Home Health – Advent Health Home Health
All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

• Benefits from Day One

• Paid Days Off from Day One

• Career Development

• Whole Person Wellbeing Resources

• Mental Health Resources and Support
Our promise to you:
Joining Advent Health is about being part of something bigger. It's about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. Advent Health is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team.

All while understanding that together we are even better.

Schedule:

Full Time
Shift :
Days

Location:

This position will conduct patient home care visits in the Hardee County area.
The role you'll contribute:
The Home Health Physical Therapist (PT) Care Manager is a professional therapist who coordinates and directs the home care patient's services based on individual patient needs. The PT Care Manager is responsible for independent management of the Home Health patient population requiring the use of advanced assessment, teaching and decision-making skills. The PT is responsible for ensuring that appropriate referrals to other services are made, interdisciplinary conferencing takes pace regularly, and appropriate documentation is completed.

Relevant knowledge and experience is consistently applied to new patient populations. The PT Care Manager cares for a caseload of home health patients requiring therapy as the primary service by evaluating the patient for appropriateness of home health and developing the home care plan in conjunction with the physician. S/he educates patients, families, caregivers and community providers to safely perform care.

S/he provides follow up by evaluating effectiveness of the home care plan, and monitoring patient/family's response to the plan to achieve patient/family goals and top decile outcomes. The PT Care Manager also identifies performance improvement and home health standard of care initiatives and assists to design or implement programs to address needed changes.
The value you'll bring to the team:

• Coordinates and directs the care of a caseload of home patients requiring physical therapy as the primary skill. Provides comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation for that caseload as the primary Care Manager.

• Sets priorities of home care caseload adapting to the changing needs of the home care patients and families. Optimizes schedule daily to support productivity, efficiency and maintain best practice visit utilization.

• Performs an evaluation, assessing function using a method which objectively measures activities of daily living such as, but not limited to, eating, swallowing, bathing, dressing, toileting, walking, climbing stairs, using assistive devices and…