Home Health Physical Therapist Assistant
Listed compensation
$60-$70/hr
The week · per this posting
Schedule not stated in this posting — no days, weekends, call or nights given.
Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations, weekend coverage and time off.
Job Description
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Flexible schedule
Health Insurance
We are looking for a per diem Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) with recent Home Health experience to visit patients in their homes in Perris, Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, Menifee and Hemet and surrounding cities.
Apply your home health therapy experience and provide the high quality care to our patients. We thrive on our patient care in our communities!
Responsibilities and Duties
- Assess patient's condition under a PT during every visit and chart observations
- Perform evaluation tasks, including vital signs
- Follow prescribed treatments, following plan of care and assess progress of healing
- Provide appropriate timely feedback to Physical Therapist and other professionals
- Charting and documenting
Key Responsibilities
The Physical Therapist Assistant will assess patient conditions, monitor vital signs, and follow prescribed treatment plans during home visits. They are responsible for documenting observations and providing timely feedback to the Physical Therapist and other healthcare professionals.
Requirements
Candidates must have recent home health experience to be considered for this position. The role requires the ability to travel to various cities to provide high-quality patient care.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Physical Therapist Career Context
Of the 35 active Physical Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 14% have no call, 40% require no weekends.
In California, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$116k (1,525 salary observations; 3,917 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (14,883 salary observations; 56,734 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Care Essentials Home Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 73/100, 4 active listings.
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Annual compensation range
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Share of similar jobs offering each benefit
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$40-$48.76/hrPhysical Therapist Assistant
$40-$48/hrWork-life snapshot
Listing-based score, 0–10, across 4,946 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.
Living in Murrieta
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $603k
- Typical market rent
- $2,672/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 37 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 106.4
- State income tax
- Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.