? Urgent Search: Home Health Physical Therapist Care Manager
Company: AdventHealth Home Health
Location: Apopka
Posted on: June 26, 2025
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Job Description:
Home Health Physical Therapist Care Manager – Adventhealth Home
Health All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:
- Up to $5000 Sign On Bonus - Benefits from Day One - Paid Days Off
from Day One - Career Development - Whole Person Wellbeing
Resources - Mental Health Resources and Support Our promise to you:
Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s
about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of
each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit.
AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and
grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ.
Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences
you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that
together we are even better. Schedule: Full Time Shift : Days
Location: Team Blue: This position will be conducting patient home
visits in the West Longwood, Lake Mary, Apopka, Mt Dora, Sanford
area which includes but is not limited to the following zip codes:
32757, 32777, 32798, 32712, 32768, 32703, 32779, 32746, 32771 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 experiences
you’ll need to succeed: Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree
- Physical Therapist (PT) - Active American Heart Assaociation BLS
- Valid in state Driver’s License with current car insurance
Preferred qualifications: - Master's Degree - 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. The salary
range reflects the anticipated base pay range for this position.
Individual compensation is determined based on skills, experience
and other relevant factors within this pay range. The minimums and
maximums for each position may vary based on geographical location.
Category: Rehabilitation Services Organization: AdventHealth Home
Health Schedule: Full-time Shift: 1 - Day Req ID: 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.
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