Manager, Rehabilitation

Overview

Position Highlights: 

• Location: Kernersville, North Carolina
• Full Time
• Relocation Assistance: Up to $7,500 in Relocation Assistance (for qualified candidates) 

What We Offer:

• Day 1 Health Coverage: Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work. 
• Generous PTO: Accrual starts at up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters. 
• Parental Benefits: Six weeks paid birthing-mother maternity leave & four weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
• Retirement: Up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions
• Education Reimbursement: We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor’s degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree. 

Job Summary:   

Develops, manages, administers, and coordinates physical/occupational therapy services in order to ensure positive patient outcomes. Responsible for the clinical and financial performance of the area. Works collaboratively with other departments and other therapy areas to develop and implement high quality patient services.  Supervises therapy staff and students to develop their clinical skills and maintain the delivery of quality patient care. Provides comprehensive, therapeutic, developmentally appropriate patient care.  Educates patients, significant others, and health care providers to assure continuity of the patient care plan.

What You'll Need:  

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited physical or occupational therapy program. 
• Current licensure in the state of North Carolina. 
• CPR certification in Basic Life Support, Level C.

What You'll Do: 

• Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.  Following hospital policies and procedures. Following departmental policies and procedures. Contributing to the overall quality of services. Assuming responsibility for keeping informed about changes in policies and procedures.
• Manages daily operations and ensures efficient utilization of resources to meet customer needs as well as budgetary expectations. 
• Works cooperatively with other managers/CD to assist with the operation of the Physical/Occupational Therapy department. Understands the budgeted expectation and uses all reasonable resources to achieve.
• Manages and facilitates growth of staff. Hires, supervises, and evaluates staff. Completes and submits 100% of performance evaluations by the due date. 
• Manages and improves processes to optimize quality and efficiency of services. Leads the development of evidence-based guidelines and guides the systematic collection and reporting of quality outcome measures to advance the quality of care provided. 
• Provides patient care assessment and treatment. Provides sound professional judgment in interpreting the evaluation results and establishing an acceptable treatment plan with realistic goals. 
• Maintains accurate documentation. 
• Ensures compliance with all internal and external professional and regulatory agency standards. 
• Promotes professional development and education of other health care workers and provides committee representation. 
• Communicates effectively. Informs Clinical Director of issues and resolutions to potential problems.  Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients, physicians, staff, and all external customers. 
• Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines. Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patients served. Utilizes knowledge of age/developmentally specific data when assessing patients. Interprets age/developmentally specific response to treatment/activity accurately. Maintains competence related to age/developmentally specific patient care by regularly updating knowledge of growth and development and the aging process.