Physical Therapist

Horizons Residential Care • Rural Hall, NC

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Horizons Residential Care Center is seeking a compassionate and collaborative Physical Therapist to provide individualized physical therapy services to children and adults with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities. This person-centered residential role involves assessing residents’ needs, developing and implementing interventions, recommending adaptive equipment and environmental modifications, training direct-support employees, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to support mobility, positioning, comfort, accessibility, safety, and quality of life.

The position may be structured as full-time, part-time, or contract, depending on the selected candidate’s qualifications and availability and the organization’s needs. The schedule is flexible. Final hours, compensation, responsibilities, and employment classification will be confirmed before an offer or agreement is issued.

Requirements

• Degree in Physical Therapy from an accredited educational program.
• Current North Carolina Physical Therapist license or eligibility to obtain North Carolina licensure before beginning clinical services.
• Ability to assess residents, exercise independent clinical judgment, and develop appropriate interventions within the scope of physical therapy practice.
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and documentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with employees from clinical, programmatic, and direct-support disciplines.
• Ability to explain and demonstrate clinical procedures in a practical manner that direct-support employees can understand and consistently implement.
• Commitment to person-centered services, resident rights, confidentiality, and professional ethics.
• Ability to perform essential job functions, with or without reasonable accommodation, including lifting, pushing, pulling, or moving up to 40 pounds; assisting with mobility and equipment; and standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, reaching, and using stairs.
• Ability to use appropriate body mechanics and safely demonstrate resident-transfer and positioning techniques.
• Ability to work in residential, clinical, community, and occasional outdoor environments and follow infection-control and workplace-safety practices.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Experience working with individuals who have complex physical, mobility, positioning, or adaptive-equipment needs.
• Experience in a residential, long-term care, rehabilitation, pediatric, adult disability, or interdisciplinary service setting.
• Experience training or coaching direct-care employees.
• Familiarity with active treatment, individualized service planning, and interdisciplinary documentation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct physical therapy evaluations and reassessments based on residents’ individual needs.
• Develop, implement, and monitor individualized physical therapy treatment plans and programs.
• Provide direct physical therapy services using appropriate therapeutic techniques and interventions.
• Address mobility, range of motion, positioning, balance, strength, motor development, physical accessibility, and functional participation.
• Identify movement dysfunction and recommend appropriate accommodations or environmental modifications.
• Recommend, select, fit, and monitor adaptive equipment, wheelchairs, positioning devices, splints, and other therapeutic supports.
• Develop positioning, range-of-motion, mobility, and equipment-use guidelines for residents.
• Collaborate with residents, families and guardians, QIDPs, nursing, clinicians, direct-support employees, and other interdisciplinary team members.
• Contribute physical therapy recommendations to residents’ individualized plans of care.
• Provide practical training, demonstrations, and competency-based coaching to direct-support employees.
• Train employees on positioning, body mechanics, transfers, mechanical lifts, adaptive equipment, range-of-motion programs, and other physical therapy supports.
• Observe implementation of physical therapy programs and provide timely coaching or corrective guidance when needed.
• Coordinate or support orthopedic, therapy, and other related specialist appointments, as assigned.
• Complete accurate evaluations, progress notes, recommendations, and other required documentation within established timeframes.
• Monitor residents’ progress and modify interventions when their needs, abilities, or goals change.
• Promote resident dignity, choice, safety, independence, and meaningful participation in daily life.
• Perform other responsibilities consistent with the scope of physical therapy practice and the needs of the organization.

Benefits

• Full-time employees are eligible for applicable employee benefits.
• Part-time benefit eligibility is determined by scheduled hours and organizational policy.
• Contractors are not eligible for employee benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time