Physical Therapist - Full Time

The Lutheran Home has an exciting opportunity for a Full-Time Physical Therapist to join our compassionate healthcare community. You’ll provide high-quality rehabilitative care across in-patient skilled nursing, rehab-to-home, and outpatient services, helping patients regain independence and improve quality of life. As part of our mission-driven team, you’ll embody our core values of service, excellence, dignity, fulfillment, grace, and stewardship, all within a supportive and purpose-driven environment. Join us and discover why Newsweek named us in “America’s Best Nursing Homes 2025.”

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Plan, prepare, and carry out individually designed programs of physical therapy care and services to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction. 
• Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention. 
• Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit. 
• Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for re-evaluation in a timely manner.
• Review referrals and medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
• Test and measure patient’s strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
• Direct and supervise physical therapy assistants in the delivery of physical therapy treatment plans.
• Participate in care plan meetings with other members of the healthcare team as appropriate. Assist with discharge planning and recommendations to facilitate safe transition plans for beneficiaries when appropriate.
• Discharge patients from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes are attained, or when skilled services are no longer indicated, and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.
• Perform all job responsibilities in accordance with prescribed safety and infection control procedures.
• Follow the guidelines set forth by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the fiscal intermediary, other insurance providers, and the American Medical Association regarding the appropriate delivery of skilled services, documentation required to support these services, and correct billing for medically necessary treatment.
• Adhere to the Physical Therapy Statutes established by the Missouri Board of Healing Arts.

• Earned Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Medical Insurance options
• Retirement Benefits including Employer Match opportunity
• Life Insurance options including an Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Long-term & Short-term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Critical Illness & Accident Insurance options
• On Demand Pay through Tapcheck
• and Residents that you will fall in love with.

• Licensed to work as a Physical Therapist in Missouri
• Experience in a skilled nursing facility preferred

About the Lutheran Home:
Since 1972, the Lutheran Home has provided the region's residents with dignified and compassionate care. We look to employ and empower dedicated and qualified individuals to provide a culture of positivity, compassion and fun so that we may all live each day fulfilled. 
 

The Lutheran Home is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Please verify that you have included in your application all relevant information and experience for the position you are pursuing. We use this information in our effort to offer competitive and equitable compensation.

Not all positions may be eligible for all benefits.