All Your Needs. All Our Hearts.

Madisonville Health and Rehab Center located in the quaint little city of Madisonville, Tennessee offers Respite Care, Long term care, and Palliative and Hospice. This campus offers care for 81 residents and patients who rely on us for life enrichment and quality of care.

We offer an array of employment opportunities for all types professional interests. We offer competitive wages and benefits, tuition assistance and professional advancement programs.

We are currently seeking a Physical Therapist for our 81 bed skilled nursing center. The community describes Madisonville Health and Rehab as ‘family’, and we’re honored to serve every one of our 81 residents with the most compassionate care for over 45 years.

Come join our enthusiastic team! It’s not just our promise, it’s our passion.

Essential Job Functions

• Plan, develop, organize, implement, evaluate, and direct our facility’s physical therapy, as well as its programs and activities, in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern nursing care facilities.
• Meet with administration, medical and nursing staff, as well as other related departments in planning therapy services.
• Represent the facility at and participate in meetings as directed.
• Develop and maintain physical therapy standards.
• Assist in standardizing the methods in which physical therapy will be accomplished.
• Maintain a reference library of written therapy material, laws, standards of practice, etc., necessary for complying with current standards and regulations, and that will provide assistance in maintaining quality resident care.
• Assist in developing, implementing and coordinating policies and procedures, resident care plans, physical therapy procedure manuals, job descriptions, etc.
• Review physical therapy policies, procedures, manuals, job descriptions, etc., at least annually, and participate in making recommended changes.
• Interpret physical therapy policies and procedures to personnel, residents, family members, etc., as necessary.
• Participate in discharge planning, development and implementation of resident care plans, resident assessments, etc., as necessary.
• Assist the Quality Assessment and Assurance Coordinator in developing, implementing, and maintaining an ongoing quality assurance program for physical therapy services.
• Assume the authority, responsibility and accountability of directing the physical therapy department.
• Maintain treatment records, resident files, and progress notes as required.
• Work with the facility’s consultants as necessary and implement recommended changes as required.
• Assist in arranging transportation to other facilities when necessary.
• Ensure business office receives charges for physical therapy rendered to residents.
• Make written and oral reports/recommendations to the administrator, as necessary/required, concerning the operation of the physical therapy department.
• Maintain an excellent working relationship with the medical profession and other health related facilities and organizations.
• Meet with and solicit advice from other department supervisors concerning physical therapy; assist in identifying and correcting problem areas and/or the improvement of services.
• Coordinate physical therapy with other departments.
• Conduct departmental performance evaluations in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Must be able to push, pull, move and/or lift a minimum of 25 pounds to a minimum height of 5 feet and be able to push, pull, move, and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of 50 feet.