PRIDE Health is seeking a local contract Home Health Physical Therapist for a local contract job in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Physical Therapist
- Discipline: Therapy
- Duration: 24 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days
- Employment Type: Local Contract
Pride Health is actively hiring a Physical Therapist to join our client's Home Health Program in a growing care team serving patients.
Job Detail:
Job Title: Home Health Physical Therapist
Location: Parkersburg, WV [Coverage Areas: Wood and Wirt Counties]
Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Duration: 6+ Months
Pay Range: $55.00 -$60.00/Hours (W2)
*Pay offered is based on experience, expertise, credentialing, and education.
Weekly Hour Guarantee: 40 hours
On-Call/Weekend Requirement: Yes
Mileage Reimbursement: Yes (from first patient to last patient)
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform comprehensive physical therapy evaluations and ongoing reassessments to identify impairments, functional limitations, and safety risks
- Develop, implement, and adjust individualized care plans to improve mobility, strength, balance, endurance, pain management, and functional independence
- Deliver skilled interventions including therapeutic exercise, gait training, transfer training, balance activities, stair training, and home safety education
- Educate patients and caregivers on home exercise programs, fall prevention, assistive device use, and energy conservation techniques
- Complete accurate and timely documentation (evaluations, visit notes, progress reports, and discharge summaries) using EMR systems
- Coordinate care with physicians and interdisciplinary team members, including nurses, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and home health aides
- Communicate changes in patient condition, safety concerns, or barriers to progress promptly to the care team
- Participate in case conferences, care coordination activities, and team collaboration
- Ensure compliance with CMS regulations, infection control standards, and agency policies
- Manage a mobile caseload efficiently while meeting productivity and documentation expectations
- Adapt quickly to new environments, workflows, and patient populations as a travel clinician
Required Qualification/Certification
- Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy program
- Active Physical Therapist license in the state of assignment
- Home Health experience required
- Willingness to travel within the assigned coverage area
- Current BLS certification
- Valid driver’s license.
About PRIDE Health
PRIDE Health is the minority-owned healthcare recruitment division of Pride Global—an integrated human capital solutions and advisory firm. With our robust and abundant travel nursing and allied health employment options across the U.S., PRIDE Health will allow you to help change the way the world lives and heals as it connects you with the industry’s leading healthcare organizations.
Pride Global offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with preferred vendors.
Benefits
- Weekly pay
- Holiday Pay
- Guaranteed Hours
- 401k retirement plan
- Cancelation protection
- Referral bonus
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits