Therapist-Occupational Lead

Job Responsibilities

• Supports departmental goals by providing frontline clinical leadership and workflow coordination for Occupational Therapy services.
• Maintains strong individual clinical performance and productivity standards.
• Affords assistance to the Rehab Manager with visibility into staffing patterns, ShiftWizard review, and identification of coverage gaps.
• Promotes consistency in documentation, charge capture, and compliance with departmental workflows.
• Serves as a clinical resource for complex ADL, mobility, upper extremity, cognitive-functional, and discharge planning cases.
• Affords assistance with onboarding and orientation of new OT/COTA hires and PRN staff.
• Provides peer mentorship and supports competency development of staff and students.
• Reinforces point-of-care documentation expectations and departmental best practices.
• Helps identify and escalate workflow barriers that may impact patient throughput or length of stay.
• Serves as a resource and ambassador for performance improvement initiatives to clinical staff.

Qualifications

• Minimum Required: 3 years clinical experience or advanced training and certification in area of primary assignment.
• Preferred/Desired: 5 years clinical experience or advanced training and certification in area of primary assignment.
• Additional Preferred: Demonstrated strong clinical performance, experience mentoring or onboarding staff, experience across multiple care settings preferred, experience with neuro rehab, ADL retraining, and/or upper extremity rehabilitation preferred.

Skills

• Basic computer literacy skills.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to support peers in a team-based environment.
• Familiarity with Epic and ShiftWizard workflows preferred.
• Ability to analyze workflow and identify process improvement opportunities.