About the Role
The Physical Therapist (PT) at Elmwood Healthcare - Home Health (Elmwood Home Care) will be responsible for evaluating, planning, and implementing personalized therapeutic interventions to improve clients' physical function, mobility, and overall well-being. Working directly in clients' homes, you will provide hands-on therapy, education, and support to help clients achieve their rehabilitation goals and enhance their quality of life.
Department | Clinical Operations > Rehabilitation Therapy |
Status / Type | Full Time (40-Hours / Week) |
Schedule | Monday through Friday; 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.; On-Call Rotation |
Environment | Field-Based |
Key Responsibilities:
Assessment and Evaluation: Conduct comprehensive assessments of clients’ physical abilities, mobility, strength, balance, and coordination to identify areas for improvement and develop individualized treatment plans.
Treatment Planning: Design and implement personalized therapy plans that address clients’ specific needs, goals, and functional limitations. Adjust plans as needed based on client progress and feedback.
Therapeutic Interventions:Â Provide direct therapy services, including exercises, manual therapy, gait training, balance and coordination activities, and modalities to enhance physical function and mobility.
Client and Family Education:Â Educate clients and their families on exercise techniques, home safety modifications, pain management strategies, and ways to support and maintain physical progress outside of therapy sessions.
Documentation:Â Maintain accurate, timely, and thorough documentation of therapy services, client progress, and outcomes in compliance with company policies, insurance requirements, and regulatory standards.
Collaboration:Â Work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals, such as physicians, occupational therapists, and nurses, to coordinate comprehensive care and ensure continuity of treatment.
Case Management: Monitor client progress, modify treatment plans as necessary, and provide regular updates to the interdisciplinary team and clients’ families.
Compliance and Safety:Â Ensure that all therapy practices adhere to regulatory standards, safety protocols, and best practices within the home healthcare environment.
Direct Patient Care / Clinical Skills:
Medication Management, Education and Reconciliation
Development and Teaching of Individuated Home Exercise Programming (HEP)
Strategic Therapies to Address Movement, Function and Strengthening
Gait, Mobility and Ambulation Training
Physical Reconditioning
Range-of-Motion (ROM) Training
ADL/IADL Training
Qualifications
Education: Master’s or Doctoral degree in Physical Therapy from an accredited program.
Licensure:Â Current and valid Physical Therapist license (PT/DPT) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Experience:Â Minimum of one (1) year of experience as an Occupational Therapist, preferably in a home healthcare setting.
Skills:Â Strong clinical assessment and therapeutic skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
Certifications:Â CPR Certification with Basic Life Support (BLS) or Advanced Life Support (ALS) is required.
Other Requirements: Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and willingness to travel to patients' homes within the designated service area.
Elmwood Healthcare - Home Health
Elmwood Healthcare is looking for a committed, eager, passionate and experienced professional to join the team of highly-skilled individuals within our community-based health system.
Elmwood Healthcare's Home Health Division, Elmwood Home Care, is a multi-setting Medicare-Certified, dual-program Joint Commission accredited organization, providing both skilled medical home health care and non-skilled home care services to hundreds of communities by way of Agency branch locations in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Our committment to quality and focus on enhanced, specialized care has been defining in the organic evolution of Elmwood Home Care, and our attention to high-demand and high-acuity care in the home-based setting has allowed us to deliver our reimagined home health care services to thousands of patients already. This focus, in areas such as home-infusion therapy, advanced wound care and wound management, home-safety and falls prevention, to name a few, have been met with enormous success and positive clinical outcomes for our patients and their families.
Such unique and hands-on approaches to clinical care and home-based community health management work to capture Elmwood Healthcare's system-wide emphasis on the key ideals that we embody, including: Innovation; Individual patient-centered approaches to a wide-range of specialty, chronic and acute care; Health equity and access to promote longevity, sustainability and the provision of high-quality care in community-based settings, allowing our community populations to safely and effectively age in place; And, at the forefront, the highest standards in the provision of high-quality community-based care.
Driven by a passion for community health, Elmwood Healthcare believes in the ways that community-based healthcare positively impacts our communities. Through the delivery of unmatched care, a culture of safety and respect, and endless opportunity for personal, professional and career development, we are committed to igniting change within the healthcare industry. Our focus and goal is to bring care back to the patient, and bring healthcare professionals back to doing what they love- caring for others.
Elmwood Healthcare, at large, supports and cares for communities by providing compassionate, innovative and personalized care. Through a comprehensive, community-based systems approach, we are committed to the delivery of the highest-quality of patient-centered care. Through this model, we maximize patient success and reduce hospital re-admissions to promote higher-rates of successful outcomes. For our patients, this is all possible when care is delivered in the comfort of their own home.
The dedication to each patient Elmwood Healthcare cares for goes well beyond the scope of intermittent services, with primary focus on communication, continuity and growth. Holding ourselves, our teams and our partners in the community accountable to the highest standards of care and operational integrity, Elmwood Healthcare champions the promotion of health-equity, access to viable and necessary community resources and enhanced equal opportunities for each patient and each member of our team alike.
Through these core ideals, Elmwood Healthcare places emphasis on personal and professional growth, skill acquisition through continuous hands-on training, and long-term career development within the organization to promote the development of our professionals, thereby supporting and enhancing integrated access to high quality care for our patients and their families.
Our standards are modeled to mirror those of federally-supported accrediting bodies and lead us to our commitment to ongoing and absolute compliance with local, state and federal regulations, allowing Elmwood Healthcare to further promote large scale positive impacts on our communities.
The execution of our philosophies and missions solidify Elmwood Healthcare as a pioneer community-based healthcare innovation. Pillared by models that emphasize patient-centered approaches, our goals focus on upholding quality, safety, access and equity in healthcare. Elmwood Healthcare emboldens an evolving and limitless vision of opportunity that seeks to continually empower our patients and families, our team-members and our partners in the communities that we serve.