Director of Rehabilitation Services

Job Overview:

Provide leadership, direction, supervision, coordination and planning of services for Rehabilitation Services, including Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology.

Salary: $70.59-$81.92 per hour, DOE

Responsibilities:

Key Essential Functions and Accountabilities of the Job

• Functions minimally as a working clinical director to provide direct patient care.
  • Provides assessments, perform evaluations, identifies therapy diagnosis, formulates therapy treatment plan with goals and implements treatment of PT, OT, and/or SLP services to patients.
  • Responsible as the primary therapy provider to implement, supervise and modify a therapy plan of care based on assessment of patient response to optimize the outcome for each patient.
  • Attends care conferences, regular meetings/rounds and remains in contact with referring providers, nurses and other rehabilitation professionals and collaborates with other team members to ensure appropriate medical equipment is arranged and care plan is established prior to discharge. 
  • Documents patient encounter findings and treatments including diagnoses, treatment plan, recommendations, and prognoses in appropriate format according to hospital policies.
  • Directs the work of support staff, students or interns. 
  • Develops, implements and conducts patient education and therapy programs. 
• Responsible and accountable for all administrative functions, such as oversight of day-to-day department operations and clinical activities.
  • Responsible for annual operating budget of the department.
  • Manages the selection, training and development of staff and other personnel activities.
  • Monitors budget and utilizes operational resource and participates in program development. 
  • Ensures services are in compliance with professional standards, state and federal regulations. 
  • Maintains supply stocks, equipment and the clinical area at acceptable levels. 
• Therapy services may be performed outside of Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center (MEMC) in conjunction with SEARHC Community Health Services (CHS) and the community at large and may take place in locations including: SEARHC Community Clinics, SEARHC Long Term Care Units, Wrangell Medical Center, AICS, other consortium locations, community senior centers, Pioneer Home, health/job fairs, patients’ home and/or workplace, and other collaborative efforts between MEMC – PT, OT, SLP and the communities served.  
• Provides therapy consultation, presentations, and in-service to medical staff, consultants and other interdisciplinary health care personnel and patient populations regarding therapy services. Directs and coordinates education programs, including the training of physical therapy interns from affiliated university programs and in-service programs for medical staff, nursing staff, etc.
• Responsible for timely and accurate completion of service plan, including assessing and reporting required volume, quality and monitoring indicators to administration. Plans, directs within hospital standards, Alaska state licensure requirements, regulatory and practice standards of PT, OT and/or SLP and the national professional guidelines established by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), American Occupational Therapy Association (OATA), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and/or American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA).

Other Functions

• Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This position does require supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications:

Education, Certifications, and Licenses Required

• Masters’ degree (required) or doctorate degree (preferred) in Physical Therapy from an APTA approved program
• Licensed as a Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist and/or Speech Language Pathologist
• Current Basic Life Support Certification
• Valid, unrestricted driver’s license

Experience Required

• Two or more years’ administrative experience with at least 2 years in healthcare and/or insurance environment
• Six years professional work experience

Preferred:

• Experience in both acute in-patient and outpatient settings
• Administrative knowledge of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology
• Provider enrollment experience

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge of:

• Physiology of musculoskeletal including active/passive range of motion, gait, strength, biomechanics and mental cognition in order to administer a variety of standardized assessments, being able to select the most appropriate test for a specific client and implement treatments accordingly.
• Various techniques for providing sound assessments, evaluations, treatment planning, and treatments for patients presenting various diagnoses with functional deficits among the general population.
• Regulations and practice standards as they relate to PT/OT/SLP including billing mechanisms (Medicaid, Medicare and third-party payers) that may be available for patient equipment and service.

Skills in:

• Managing a department with multiple services, including budget oversight, staff supervision and daily department operations.
• Utilizing, properly fitting patients and training staff with adaptive devices, including splints, braces, orthosis, seating equipment, durable medical equipment and ADL assistive device.

Ability to:

• Communicate effectively with administration, staff, patients, families, teachers, community members and non-PT/OT/SLP service professionals; persons of any level of understanding and with cultural sensitivity. 
• Translate complex PT/OT/SLP service diagnoses, evaluations and therapies into simple and understandable oral and written language.
• Deliver treatment techniques and assist patient mobility while keeping patients and oneself safe.

Computer Skills: 

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Products including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• SEARHC provided computer applications

Other Qualifications:     

• This position is covered in accordance with the Indian Child Protection Act (ICPA)
• Occasional multi-day travel to remote locations by boat or small plane which may be in inclement or harsh weather.

Travel Required: 

• Travel expected.

Safety and Risk Management Responsibilities:

• Employees are responsible for complying with safe work rules; reporting all accidents and injuries immediately; cooperating in all accident and injury investigations; reporting defective equipment and unsafe conditions

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms.  The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The employee must be able to lift and/or push/pull up to 50 lbs. alone or as part of a team.

Work Environment:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• The setting for this role will include office and healthcare settings. Exposure to controlled temperature environments, both hot and cold, is to be expected.
• The normal work routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, but exposure or potential exposure may be required as a condition of employment – For example, receptionists accounting or insurance staff or others who may, as a part of their duties, be asked to help in clean up, instrument recirculation, laboratory or other similar procedures where exposure may result.