Home Health Physical Therapy Assistant
About the Role
Help patients regain strength, mobility, and independence in the comfort of their own homes. As a Home Health Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), you'll provide skilled therapy services under the direction of a Physical Therapist, implementing individualized treatment plans that help patients recover from illness, injury, or surgery while improving their ability to safely perform everyday activities. Through compassionate, hands-on care, you'll play an important role in helping patients achieve their rehabilitation goals and enhance their quality of life. This role is ideal for a dedicated PTA who enjoys building meaningful patient relationships and making a lasting impact through home-based care. You'll deliver therapeutic exercises and interventions, monitor patient progress, educate patients and caregivers on mobility, safety, and equipment use, and communicate changes in condition with the interdisciplinary care team. Your clinical skills, attention to detail, and commitment to exceptional care will help ensure patients receive high-quality rehabilitation services that support optimal outcomes and continued independence.
Office Location: 801 Rosehill Road, Jackson, MI 49202. Main Service Area: Lansing, MI. This role is a high travel position requiring daily travel within the service area to provide care to patients in their homes, assisted living facilities, or nursing homes.
Responsibilities
- Deliver therapeutic exercises and interventions
- Monitor patient progress
- Educate patients and caregivers on mobility, safety, and equipment use
- Communicate changes in condition with the interdisciplinary care team
- Implement individualized treatment plans
Requirements
- Successful completion of a physical therapy assistant program at a school of physical therapy approved by the American Physical Therapy Association
- Physical Therapy Assistant License recognized in the state in which practicing
- Reliable transportation, valid driver's license, and valid automobile insurance coverage
Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years experience working as a Physical Therapy Assistant
- Hospital and/or Home Care experience
Skills
- Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to and communicate with the adult and geriatric populations
- Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the