Outpatient Physical Therapist, Senior Living Visits

About This Role

The Outpatient Physical Therapist will provide rehabilitative care and skilled nursing in assisted living communities, focusing on individualized care plans to promote clients' health, safety, and independent living. This role offers an opportunity to grow outpatient skills with a focus on one-on-one patient time.

Responsibilities

• Make outpatient visits to clients in designated geographic territories.
• Perform diagnostic tests and measurements, such as mobility/range of joints, transfer status, stability, patterns and appearance of ambulation, strength and endurance of muscles, balance testing, and safety assessments.
• Develop and implement appropriate individualized care plans, including manual therapeutic exercises, gait training, balance, and other interventions.
• Continually assess and revise the Physical Therapy care plan, and participate with nursing in the multidisciplinary care plan.
• Educate and instruct clients, family members, or other client representatives, in rehabilitative care and activities necessary to promote the client's health, safety, and independent living.
• Accurately document observations, interventions, and evaluations pertaining to client care management and services provided, utilizing a state-of-the-art touch pad tablet.

Requirements

• Current MD Physical Therapist license
• Minimum of one year of recent work experience as a Physical Therapist
• Graduation from an APTA-approved program

Qualifications

• Graduation from a program approved by the American Physical Therapy Association or the Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation of the American Medical Association
• A minimum of one year of recent work experience as a Physical Therapist.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience with electronic medical records (EMR)

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits