Role: Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA)
Schedule: Full-time Monday–Friday + occasional weekends (as needed)
Location: Field Based
Compensation (Productivity Points): $58.00 / point | $75,000-$100,000/year
We're fixing home healthcare, and we're building our presence in Detroit
Adaptive is building an AI-native home healthcare platform that enables clinicians to focus on delivering best-in-class care for their patients by leveraging software and innovative support solutions. We’re building our team in Detroit with plans to quickly develop an exceptional reputation of delivering excellent patient care.
The mission of this role
Deliver excellent home health care to our patients in Detroit, and set the clinical bar, the documentation standard, and the referral-source trust that our market will be built on.
Objectives
Carry a full, high-quality caseload: ramp to ~30 productivity points/week at target visit quality.
Own your patients' outcomes: drive low avoidable-hospitalization rates and strong patient-experience scores; participate in case conferences/team huddles to improve our quality.
Be a referral-source ambassador: every discharge planner, ALF, and physician you touch should want to send the next patient to us because you were responsive and excellent.
Set the standard others copy: your charting, cadence, and judgment become the template we onboard the next cohort against as the pod grows.
What you'll own
Deliver skilled PTA visits in the home under the supervising PT’s plan of care.
Execute treatment plans with a focus on functional mobility and measurable progress: gait/balance, transfers, strengthening, functional mobility, home safety, fall prevention.
Set/track objective progress within PTA scope and communicate updates/concerns to the supervising PT.
Drive multidisciplinary coordination: escalate changes in condition, align on orders, and keep the care team moving.
Coach patients and caregivers with practical home programs that actually get done.
Document promptly and thoroughly in Homecare Homebase (HCHB) — defensible, efficient, and consistent.
Who you are / how you operate
Dedicated clinician: home health experience strongly preferred
High ownership: you treat your caseload like your own panel and your pod like your own business.
Open mindset: Energized by the opportunity to shape the playbook and refine SOPs
Tech-forward: You want to leverage software to accelerate the charting process, and you'll give us blunt feedback to make it better
Trust-builder: Patients, families, and referral partners believe you because you do what you say.
Requirements
Active Michigan PTA license (in good standing)
Reliable transportation, valid driver's license, auto insurance
Home health experience strongly preferred
Able to carry/transport basic therapy equipment as needed
Competency in core home health PTA scope
Safety-first mobility work: transfers, gait training, balance/fall prevention, assistive device recommendations
Strengthening, functional mobility, and home safety assessment/modification education
Patient/caregiver coaching with practical home programs
Our guarantee
Full-time target: ~30 productivity points/week; clinicians earn more for exceeding it.
The rest of the package
$1k bonus for referrals (we’re growing)!
Benefits for full-time (medical/dental/vision, PTO)