🏡💙 Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) – Home Health

🌿 Help Us Grow Something Meaningful

For more than 40 years, Big Bend Hospice, a proud subsidiary of Seven Oaks Health, has provided compassionate, high-quality care to individuals and families throughout Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla counties.

As we continue growing our new Home Health Program, we’re excited to welcome an experienced and compassionate Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) who wants to be part of building a service focused on helping patients remain safe, mobile, independent, and comfortable in the place they call home.

🩺 About the Role

As a Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), you’ll provide safe, skilled, and compassionate physical therapy services in accordance with physician orders and under the direction and supervision of a licensed Physical Therapist.

Working collaboratively with the interdisciplinary care team, you’ll help patients improve or maintain mobility, safety, functional ability, and quality of life while honoring each individual’s dignity, goals, values, and cultural preferences.

This is a hands-on, patient-centered role for a PTA who enjoys building relationships, educating patients and caregivers, and helping individuals achieve the greatest possible level of comfort, safety, and independence in their own environment.

✨ Position Duties & Responsibilities

As a Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), you will:

• 🩺 Provide physical therapy treatments as directed by the Physical Therapist and outlined in each patient’s individualized plan of care.

• 📋 Implement physician orders according to established physical therapy principles and practices and within the PTA scope of practice.

• 📈 Monitor patient response to therapy interventions and communicate changes in condition, progress toward goals, or clinical concerns to the supervising Physical Therapist.

• 🏡 Assist with discharge planning and communicate patient progress, goal attainment, and potential needs for modification of the plan of care.

• 🤝 Provide education to patients and caregivers regarding mobility, safety, self-care, adaptive equipment, and disease-related functional changes as directed by the Physical Therapist.

• 📝 Document all patient care, treatments, education, and progress accurately and timely within the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in accordance with organizational, regulatory, and payer requirements.

• 👥 Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings, case conferences, and care-coordination activities.

• 🌎 Provide culturally responsive, patient-centered care that respects individual differences related to age, language, culture, religion, gender, and physical needs.

• 🛡️ Promote patient safety by following established infection-control practices, fall-prevention strategies, hand-hygiene guidelines, and patient-identification standards.

• 💬 Communicate clearly and professionally with patients, families, caregivers, physicians, Physical Therapists, and other members of the care team.

• 🔒 Maintain professional and ethical standards, including HIPAA compliance, confidentiality, and appropriate professional conduct.

• ⏱️ Meet established productivity standards, complete documentation on the date of service, and ensure charges accurately reflect services provided.

• 🌱 Assist with the orientation and training of new staff members or students as assigned.

• 📚 Maintain required competencies and participate in mandatory education, in-services, and staff meetings.

• ✨ Perform other duties as assigned.

⏰ Work Schedule

• 📅 Monday – Friday

• 🕗 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

• 📞 Weekend call participation required

• 🚗 Must have the ability to travel to patient residences throughout the assigned service area using a personal vehicle.