Physical/Occupational Therapy Manager

Job Summary

Coordinates and Delivers Occupational or Physical Therapy services and develops and supervises the therapy related clinical care for Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech Therapy in accordance with the philosophy and objectives established for the clinic and department. This role will oversee inpatient and outpatient therapy services.

Performance: Position Specific Essential Functions

• Able to self-assess, self-correct, and self-direct; to identify needs and sources of learning, and continually seek new knowledge and understanding through participation in professional organizations, educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings, peer case review, workshops, etc. Shares new knowledge with coworkers.
• Establishes rapport and works cooperatively and effectively with interdisciplinary team members including patients, physicians, families, colleagues, and other health care professionals throughout patient’s intervention programs. Effectively handles cultural and ethnic diversity issues.
• Effectively communications with interdisciplinary team members including patients, physicians, families, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals (i.e. verbal, non-verbal, reading, writing, and listening) for varied audiences and purpose.   
• Identifies sources of professional feedback, seeks out professional feedback, and provides professional feedback to effectively improver personal interactions.
• Ability to question logically, to identify, generate and evaluate elements of logical argument, to recognize and differentiate facts and assumptions, and to distinguish between the relevant and the irrelevant.
• Recognize and defines problems, analyzes data, develops, and implements solutions and evaluates outcomes.
• Maintains department policies, procedures, objectives, and quality improvement programs. Follows safety and infection control policies/procedures. Assists with maintenance of departmental supplies and equipment. Participates and positively promotes department program development and cohesion.
• Identifies sources of stress and develops effective coping behaviors/strategies.
• Assists withs student training by accepting the role as clinical instructor and promoting student education within the profession. Completes required student assessments timely and receives positive feedback assessments from their student and school.
• Assists in orientating, training, and mentoring staff. Accepts the mentor role willingly and assists in ensuring that appropriate department orientation is completed in a timely manner.
• Nurtures other team members and builds productive relationships across the immediate work team and with other area that impact the patient experience. Actively listens to others, encourages others’ opinions, and help problem-solve. Acknowledges others for their ideas and efforts while positively contributing to the work plan. Readily accepts and promotes change.
• Evaluates patients, gathering data from a variety of sources, assesses patient’s performance, and determines levels of function and intervention needs.
• Develops and implements individualized treatment programs for patients needing services. Updating selected activities and/or tasks to promote and maintain health and achieve treatment goals. Establishes and modifies intervention goals and strategies for patient’s treatment programs based on ongoing evaluations and in accordance to the profession and organization standards.
• Prepares written documentation as required by the profession and the department.
• Effectively assists in discharge planning and effectively communicates patients’ discharge needs with interdisciplinary team. Assist in identifying the need for the most appropriate and cost-effective adaptive equipment and training in order to help patients regain maximum, physical function.
• Promotes and utilizes evidence-based practice. Participates in evidence-based activities such as department journal clubs, in-services, etc.
• Coordinates and delivers therapy services and supervises the clinical care and the care processes on the assigned unit, in accordance with the philosophy and objectives established for the hospital and department.
• Effectively and efficiently coordinates and regulate the logistics in the assigned department.
• Maintains effective and open communication with the therapists, physicians, nurses, managers, and directors on the assigned unit, in accordance with the philosophy and objectives established by the hospital and department.
• Effectively manages conflict and handles conflict in a timely manner, in accordance with the philosophy and objectives established for the hospital and department.
• Maintains knowledge and educates staff regarding department policies and procedures, objectives and quality assurance/improvement programs, safety, environmental, and infection control as it pertains to the assigned unit.
• Participates and promotes departmental program development and assists in developing and coordinating annual competency training.
• Ensures therapy staff completes required documentation, including client records, service reports, and administrative paperwork thoroughly and in a timely manner.
• Assists and coordinates daily staffing for assigned unit including daily communication with other coordinators to effectively and efficiently meet the staffing needs of each unit.
• Effectively and efficiently assists in the management of the department’s budgets including ensuring therapists meet expected productivity standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education

• Required
  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent
  • Doctorate degree in Physical Therapy, or,
  • Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy or higher

Experience:

• Preferred
  • Five years of clinical experience

Certification/Licensure:

• Required
  • Licensed Physical Therapist or Occupational Therapist