Home Health Physical Therapy Care Manager – AdventHealth 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

Schedule: Full time

Shift : Mon- Friday 8am-4:30pm

Location: Clay and Jackson Counties

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 mental and cognitive factors, documenting the measurement results in the clinical record.

• Utilizing assessment data, formulates a patient specific plan of care along with the patient, family and physician which is feasible within the physical, financial and emotional resources of the family. Establishes individualized, realistic, measurable patient centered goals in consultation with the patient, family and other health care providers including goals to improve or stabilize patient’s medical condition, functional abilities and promote independence. Considers the physical, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, age specific and educational needs of the patient when developing the plan of care.

• Periodically reassess the patient every 30 days: provide the ordered therapy service, functionally reassess the patient and compare the resultant measurement to prior assessment measurements. Document the measurements in the clinical record along with the therapist’s determination of the effectiveness or therapy or lack thereof.

• Observes and records activities and findings in the clinical record and reports to the physician the patient’s reaction to treatment and any changes in patient’s condition, or when there are deviations from the plan of care.

The expertise and experience you’ll need to succeed :

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• Master's Degree

• Physical Therapist (PT)

• Active American Heart Association BLS

• Valid in state Driver’s License with current car insurance

Preferred qualifications:

• Doctorate Degree

• Cert for Oasis Specialist-Clinical (COSC)

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.

Category: Home Care

Organization: AdventHealth Home Health

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: 1 - Day

Req ID: 25021328

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age or disability/handicap with respect to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion, wages, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment.