Director of Rehab - Licensed Physical Therapist

About the role

This isn't just a rehab department. It's a chance to lead something exceptional. Imagine walking into work every day knowing the residents you're serving by name. Knowing what they love to do. Knowing their families. Knowing the care team. And having the opportunity to build a therapy program that is truly woven into the life of the community. That's What We're Building. Prava Therapy is looking for an exceptional Physical Therapist to serve as Director of Rehabilitation in a premier senior living community in Wilmington, NC. This is a leadership role for a clinician who wants to make a bigger impact without stepping away from what they love about therapy. You won't simply manage a rehab program. You'll shape it. WELCOME TO SENIOR LIVING THERAPY, REIMAGINED. This is a community where residents aren't defined by a diagnosis, a room number, or a therapy schedule. They're active adults. They're parents and grandparents. They're travelers, golfers, artists, gardeners, storytellers, leaders, and lifelong learners. And when they need therapy, the goal isn't simply to make them stronger or improve a test score. The goal is to help them keep doing the things that make life theirs. That's the difference between providing therapy in a community and becoming part of the community. We want the latter.

Responsibilities

• Lead the clinical and day-to-day operations of the rehabilitation program.
• Maintain an active clinical presence while providing leadership, mentorship, and support to the therapy team.
• Build a culture where clinical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and resident experience are non-negotiable.
• Develop strong relationships with community leadership, nursing, wellness, life enrichment, caregivers, residents, and families.
• Orient and integrate new clinicians into the community and Prava's clinical and operational standards.
• Coach therapists in clinical reasoning, documentation, communication, resident engagement, and functional outcomes.
• Ensure therapy is connected to meaningful goals—not simply impairments, exercises, or minutes.
• Identify changes in resident function and opportunities for early intervention.
• Partner with the interdisciplinary team to support residents across the continuum of care.
• Help caregivers and community staff understand how therapy can support safety, independence, mobility, and participation.
• Monitor clinical quality, documentation, outcomes, scheduling, caseload trends, and program performance.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen and grow the rehabilitation program.
• Create visibility for therapy throughout the community.
• Represent Prava as a trusted clinical partner—not an outside vendor.
• Set the tone for a therapy team that is curious, compassionate, clinically strong, and relentlessly focused on the resident.

Qualifications and Skills

We're looking for a PT who thinks differently. You know great therapy when you see it. It's not necessarily the most complicated intervention. It's the intervention that matters. It's helping someone walk confidently into the dining room. Return to their favorite exercise class.