Physical Therapist Team Leader

Job Summary

As a Therapy Team Leader for Encompass Health, you will play a pivotal role in impacting your community by delivering care, support, and influential leadership, fostering inspiring patient outcomes. Your responsibilities include:

Responsibilities

• Assist the Director of Therapy Operations in day-to-day operations of a therapy team or discipline.
• Delegate and supervise tasks of therapist assistants and technicians.
• Aid in staffing, scheduling, orientation, training, and communications to provide adequate coverage for patient treatments.
• Maintain open and ongoing communication with hospital departments to ensure patient, staff, and hospital needs are met.
• Provide patient care in licensed discipline 80% - 90% of work hours.
• Create an environment and culture that enables the hospital to fulfill its mission by meeting or exceeding its goals.
• Convey the hospital mission to all staff, hold staff accountable for performance, motivate staff to improve performance, and be responsible for the operation of the department, to include measurement, assessment, and continuous improvement.
• Help staff improve their clinical skills and overall performance through staff development and mentoring.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• Effective supervisory skills.
• Good communication skills for interdepartmental relationships.
• Competency in licensed discipline evaluation, assessment, care planning, and treatment.
• Experience in a similar role.
• Ability to delegate tasks and manage a team.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

• A physical therapy license.
• At least 5 years of experience in a healthcare setting.
• A bachelor’s degree in physical therapy or related field.
• Experience in a leadership role.

Benefits

We offer:

• Tuition reimbursement and continuous education opportunities.
• Company-matching 401(k) and employee stock purchase plans.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Generous paid time off.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Employee stock purchase plan.

Pay & Schedule

The starting salary for this position is $104,000.

Schedule

This position typically provides patient care in licensed discipline 80% - 90% of work hours.