What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) position at Adaptive Home Health?
- Role: Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA)
- Schedule: Full-time Monday–Friday occasional weekends (as needed)
- Location: Field Based
- Compensation (Productivity Points): $58.00 / point | $75,000-$100,000/year
Adaptive is building an AI-native home healthcare platform that enables clinicians to focus on delivering best-in-class care for their patients by leveraging software and innovative support solutions. We’re building our team in Detroit with plans to quickly develop an exceptional reputation of delivering excellent patient care.
The mission of this role
Deliver excellent home health care to our patients in Detroit, and set the clinical bar, the documentation standard, and the referral-source trust that our market will be built on.
Objectives
- Carry a full, high-quality caseload: ramp to ~30 productivity points/week at target visit quality.
- Own your patients' outcomes: drive low avoidable-hospitalization rates and strong patient-experience scores; participate in case conferences/team huddles to improve our quality.
- Be a referral-source ambassador: every discharge planner, ALF, and physician you touch should want to send the next patient to us because you were responsive and excellent.
- Set the standard others copy: your charting, cadence, and judgment become the template we onboard the next cohort against as the pod grows.
- Deliver skilled PTA visits in the home under the supervising PT’s plan of care.
- Execute treatment plans with a focus on functional mobility and measurable progress: gait/balance, transfers, strengthening, functional mobility, home safety, fall prevention.
- Set/track objective progress within PTA scope and communicate updates/concerns to the supervising PT.
- Drive multidisciplinary coordination: escalate changes in condition, align on orders, and keep the care team moving.
- Coach patients and caregivers with practical home programs that actually get done.
- Document promptly and thoroughly in Homecare Homebase (HCHB) — defensible, efficient, and consistent.
- Dedicated clinician: home health experience strongly preferred
- High ownership: you treat your caseload like your own panel and your pod like your own business.
- Open mindset: Energized by the opportunity to shape the playbook and refine SOPs
- Tech-forward: You want to leverage software to accelerate the charting process, and you'll give us blunt feedback to make it better
- Trust-builder: Patients, families, and referral partners believe you because you do what you say.
- Active Michigan PTA license (in good standing)
- Reliable transportation, valid driver's license, auto insurance
- Home health experience strongly preferred
- Able to carry/transport basic therapy equipment as needed
- Competency in core home health PTA scope
- Safety-first mobility work: transfers, gait training, balance/fall prevention, assistive device recommendations
- Strengthening, functional mobility, and home safety assessment/modification education
- Patient/caregiver coaching with practical home programs
- Full-time target: ~30 productivity points/week; clinicians earn more for exceeding it.
- Guaranteed floor: ~24 points/week for the first 90 days - if your caseload hasn't filled, you're still paid the floor.
- Mileage reimbursement at the IRS rate (~$0.67/mi)
- $1k sign-on bonus paid after first 90 days
- $1k bonus for referrals (we’re growing)!
- Benefits for full-time (medical/dental/vision, PTO)
Salary : $75,000 - $100,000