At UVA Continuum Home Health Care, you will use your skills as a physical therapist to provide care to clients in their homes. We offer direct clinical care PT jobs, providing high-level quality patient care in the community. As a home healthcare clinician, you are responsible for assessing, identifying, planning, and providing care with each patient in the home environment.

Our home health therapists work collaboratively to develop and implement a patient-centric plan of care for each client. Our PTs provide care to patients as part of regional interdisciplinary teams. As a home health physical therapist, you will work closely with community health providers, UVA Health, and others to ensure the safe delivery of care in the home. Our home care clinicians are challenged professionally, supported by a strong clinical leadership team and have a high degree of professional satisfaction.

UVA Continuum Home Health Care offers our therapy clinicians autonomy in their professional practice, provides scheduling support while also allowing self-scheduling and provides mileage reimbursement at the Federal level. We offer career advancement via our clinical ladder. We do not require candidates to have previous home care or OASIS experience. We provide an extensive onboarding orientation/training program for all new therapy clinicians who join our team.

UVA Continuum Home Health Care is the Home Health department of UVA Health. We are an academic home health agency, providing care in the community for 30 years. We serve Central Virginia, including Charlottesville, Albemarle, Augusta, Rockingham, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Waynesboro, Nelson, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Louisa, Orange, Madison, Greene and Culpeper. UVA Health is Magnet recognized, Medicare certified, and accredited by the Joint Commission.

Come join our exceptional team and grow with UVA while enjoying clinical work surrounded by the natural beauty of central Virginia. For more information about UVA Continuum Home Health Care, visit jobs.virginia.edu, or call 434-297-7555.

Under the direction and control of a Licensed Physical Therapist the Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant may assist the Physical Therapist in performing selected components of physical therapy intervention to include treatment measurement and data collection.

Implements established therapy treatment plans and provides therapy interventions under the direction of a licensed therapist.Documents patient care according to professional standards and departmental guidelines.Actively participates in quality improvementprogram development and professional growth activities.

In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

Position Compensation Range: $24.72 - $39.55 Hourly

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education:  Associate’s Degree.

Experience: No experience required.

Licensure: Licensed to practice as a Physical Therapist Assistant within the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or certification with the appropriate credentialing Board of the profession.  American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Job requires frequently bending/stooping.  Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull 50 – 100lbs.   May be exposed to blood/body fluids and infectious disease.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff.  We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences.  We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, and family medical or genetic information.