What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physical Therapist Home Health position at Compass Home Health & Rehab?
Compass Home Health & Rehab has immediate openings for the following positions:
Full Time/Part Time/Per Diem Physical Therapist
We are in search of Physical Therapists to service Lackawanna and surrounding counties.
We will provide complete training for you to adapt to home health for the right qualified candidate.
Please fax resume in confidence to 570-287-3289, apply below, or email cskrypski@compasshomehealth.net
Visit our website at: www.compasshomehealth.net
Job Responsibilities (Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to):
1. Complete a timely and comprehensive initial home health physical therapy assessment with history of current and previous illness identifying acute and chronic conditions.
2. Use standardized testing to measure patient’s initial and subsequent physical performance while establishing and adapting individualized goals to optimize client’s performance.
3. Accurately document the level of patient’s disability due to co-morbidities and or other disease process and rationalize frequency/duration of skilled care referring services to appropriate discipline as necessary.
4. Skillfully analyze patient’s performance and adapt plan to reach comparable performance norms, research based peer level performance, and/or correctly identify plateau in performance. Differentiate and deliver improvement based services or maintenance therapy programs as clinically appropriate. We will teach you the difference between Restorative and Maintenance Therapy.
5. Develop and implement, appropriate, skilled, and sophisticated Rehabilitation program to improve and/or maintain the patients current condition while preventing or slowing down further deterioration under maintenance standard.
6. Identify discharge planning needs as part of care plan development and implement prior to discharge of the patient.
7. Act as Case Manager when assigned by Clinical Supervisor and assume responsibility to coordinate patient care for assigned caseload.
Benefits:
• Flexible schedule with multiple payment positions of how you get paid.
• Company Car within 90 days of employment (at latest) or Mileage reimbursement in lieu of company car.
• Health/Dental/Vision benefits
• Paid Time Off.
• Flexible Spending Account and other insurance benefits offered.