Physical Therapist

In support of the Cass County Health Department’s mission to promote and protect the health of the community and ensure access to quality healthcare for all, the Physical Therapist provides comprehensive, high-quality, patient- and family-centered physical therapy services to individuals receiving care through the Cass County Home Health Agency and Cass-Schuyler Area Hospice program. This position specializes in the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of individuals with physical, functional, and mobility limitations to promote independence, improve or maintain functional abilities, enhance quality of life, and support patient-centered goals.

The Physical Therapist collaborates with the Home Services team, patients, families, caregivers, and other healthcare professionals to develop and implement individualized plans of treatment that address each patient’s unique needs while supporting comfort, dignity, and the highest possible level of functioning in the home or home-like setting.

• Comprehensive salary based on experience
• Health, dental, and vision insurance available
• Life Insurance
• Thirteen paid holidays, as well as vacation, personal, and sick time plans.

$45-52/hour

• Evaluates patients' physical and functional abilities, including strength, range of motion, balance, mobility, coordination, gait, endurance, and ability to perform activities of daily living.
• Develops and implements individualized physical therapy treatment plans based on the patient's condition, needs, abilities, goals, and physician orders.
• Provides physical therapy services in the patient's home or other appropriate home-like setting in accordance with the established plan of treatment.
• Provides therapeutic exercises, functional mobility training, gait training, balance activities, transfer training, and other appropriate interventions to improve or maintain the patient's functional abilities.
• Evaluates and monitors patient progress and modifies treatment plans as necessary to meet the patient's changing needs and goals.
• Assesses, reports, and records the patient's status and progress
• Delivers services to patients in accordance with accepted standards of physical therapy practice and treatment specifically appropriate for the condition from which the patient suffers.
• Assists with the development and writing of the plan of treatment in collaboration with Home Services staff and the physician.
• Provides education and instruction to patients and family members regarding therapeutic exercises, safe mobility, transfers, positioning, and use of assistive devices, fall prevention, and other appropriate strategies to promote patient safety and independence.
• Instructs Home Services staff and family members in appropriate maintenance and mobility programs as approved.
• Recommends and provides instruction regarding appropriate assistive devices, adaptive equipment, and other resources to promote safe and effective mobility.
• Participates in discharge planning by assessing the patient's functional status and determining appropriate recommendations for continued care, services, or community resources.
• Collaborates with physicians, nurses, social workers, home health aides, hospice staff, and other members of the health care team to coordinate patient care and achieve established goals.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains records as required by law, establishment's policy, and administrative regulations.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects CCHD operations by keeping information confidential.
• Participates in professional development activities,…