Director of Rehabilitation

About the role

Plans, manages and evaluates the programs and staff of the rehabilitation department.

Responsible for attending facility meetings such as stand-up, Medicare, care planning and others with approval of Director Operations.

Responsibilities

• Ensures appropriate and adequate staffing at all times
• Maintains staff utilization
• Completes screening
• Tracks and documents MDS assessment periods and data
• Maintains staff compliance and utilization of all automated therapy management tools
• Monitors & assists with personnel compliance standards including required credentials, corrective actions and improvement plans
• Manages cost and fiscal growth
• Affords new staff training and orientation
• Completes documentation and chart audits
• Identifies program development needs of the individual community and implements appropriate programming
• Promotes positive employee to employee and employee to facility relations
• Sets and implements departmental goals and objectives, guidelines, policies & procedures relative to the functioning of the department
• Completes all other tasks that are deemed appropriate for the role and assigned by the manager/supervisor

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Knowledge of therapy software/EMR
• Ability to effectively multitask in order to simultaneously execute multiple projects
• Professionalism in all situations
• People management
• PDPM knowledge
• Medicaid case mix knowledge
• Registered Therapist or Therapy Assistant of any discipline
• Current and valid state licensure

Skills

• PDPM knowledge
• Medicaid case mix knowledge

Physical Demands

• Push/Pull
• Standing
• Sitting
• Sustained Squatting
• Repetitive Stooping
• Sustained & Repetitive Forward Reaching
• Stair Climbing
• Walking
• Grasping
• Fine Motor
• Lifting