The posting
Overview
Provides clinical site leadership for rehabilitation department. Responsible for personnel management and employee engagement (clinical staff) of assigned area, oversees and improves site operations, oversees supply management and expenses/productivity to budget. Works to meet annual departmental goals and maintain accreditation readiness.
Responsibilities
- Supervises and directs daily operations for assigned site. Ensures staffing meets patient volume, for efficient and effective delivery of clinical care. Works well with other leaders for program referrals and sharing of staff/resources to meet departmental/organizational goals. Monitors, responds and improves operational and process outcomes. Maintains accreditation readiness through ongoing monitoring and surveillance of assigned location.
- Provides effective personnel management for clinical staff of assigned area resulting in a highly engaged staff. Provides oversight to ensure effective onboarding, competency and annual requirements are met. Provides 1:1 meetings, coaching/feedback, mentorship and development opportunities for staff. Performs staff performance evaluations. Performs essential duties of interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and terminating.
- Manages finances of assigned area through maintaining supply expenses to budget, productivity of location meeting flexed targets. Provides input to budget process. Monitors and improves charge capture and revenue, while decreasing denials. Maintains supply inventory.
- Provides detailed timekeeper responsibility while minimizing errors, provides staff scheduling and leave approval while providing minimal impact to patient visits.
- Provides patient care following established procedures and guidelines.
- Performs other duties as assigned by management within job specification.
Additional responsibilites
- Leads location huddles or other meetings/ presentations
- Attends location specific meetings as Rehab representative
- Initiates and/or participates in performance improvement initiatives
- Performs chart audits to understand quality and compliance of documentation
- Promotes patient safety initiatives such as event reporting and safety rounds
- Provides effective hospitality and communication both internal to department and external to customers/stakeholders
- Provides customer service recovery, if required
- Creates and/or reviews policy and procedures, as necessary
Qualifications
Required Education
- Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Education: Master's or Doctorate preferred with focus in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology, communication science disorders or business administration.
Required Licensure/Certifications
- Current Florida license in Physical Therapy
- BLS from American Heart Association.
Required Experience
- Three years' experience as a clinician, with evidence of increased leadership responsibility.
Preferred Experience: Experience in hospital based rehabilitation.
Supervision: Number of Employees Supervised: 6-20
Budgetary Responsibility: Responsible for providing input into Rehabilitation Service annual budget.
