Home Health Physical Therapist

Job Description

Job Description

The Physical Therapist is a member of a multidisciplinary team at Sunrise Health Services. The home health physical therapists goals are to rehabilitate and educate the patient to regain and retain their independence in their home setting.

Further, the purpose of the physical therapist is to restore the patients function, alleviate pain, and prevent disabilities by planning and administering medically prescribed physical therapy.

Key Deliverables :

Assists the physician in evaluating the patients level of function.

• Assess patients home environment for safety hazards and architectural barriers identify equipment needs.
• Identifies functional problems and establishes goals and a plan of care designed to improve the patients functional status (revising as necessary).
• Performs patient tests, measurements, and evaluations, such as range of motion and manual muscle tests, gait and functional analysis, and body parts measurement, and records and evaluates findings to aid in establishing or revising specifics of treatment programs.
• Performs and completes start-of-care, and ongoing assessments and associated paperwork in accordance to agency policy.
• Periodically re-evaluates and upgrades the patients program to maximize functional improvement.
• Administers the exercise program utilizing specialized therapeutic exercise techniques and equipment.
• Plans and administers prescribed physical therapy treatment programs for patients to restore function, relieve pain and prevent disability following disease, injury, or loss of body parts.
• Recommends prosthetic / orthotic devices for patients or evaluates their devices and makes minor adjustments or recommends modifications by the prosthetist / orthotist.
• Confers with the family, referring physician, and other agency professional staff to obtain information to promote coordinated, efficient, and quality patient care.
• Performs and submits required documentation of patients evaluations, plan of care, clinical notes, and progress reports, summaries along with changes in orders.
• All patient visit notes must be turned in the next scheduled workday, not to exceed forty-eight (48) hours.

Performance Responsibilities

Although each position has its own unique duties and responsibilities, the following listing applies to every employee. All employees of the organization :

• Will exercise necessary cost control measures.
• Will strive to maintain positive internal and external customer service relationships.
• Must be able to demonstrate effective leadership skills.
• Must demonstrate effective communication skills by conveying necessary information accurately, listening effectively and asking questions when clarification is needed.
• Must be able to be depended upon to plan and organize work effectively and ensure its completion.
• Must be able to demonstrate reliability by arriving to work on time and taking breaks in expected time frames.
• Will be expected to meet all productivity requirements.
• Must be able to demonstrate team behavior and must be willing to promote a team-oriented environment.
• Is expected to represent the organization professionally at all times.
• Must be able to demonstrate initiative, strives to continually improve processes and relationships.

Education and Experience :

Must be a graduate from an accredited Physical Therapy program and licensed by the state of Arizona.