Under the direction of the Home Care Site Director, manages activities of Rehabilitation services for the Home Health Hospice Agency. Monitors quality, service and utilization standards. Supervises the day-to-day clinical operational activities. Provides input into planning, organizing, budgeting and reporting to achieve consistency and a high level of member satisfaction of services throughout the Facility and/or Service Area. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Provides direct therapy/rehabilitation patient care services as needed.

• Manages the day-to-day clinical operations of the agency, including practice standards, staffing, payroll, budgets, fiscal management, and quality improvement.
• Participates in agency and employee safety programs and risk management.
• Responsible for overall supervision of Rehabilitative Services Staff (including PT, OT, SLP), includes interviewing, hiring, training, monitoring assignments and evaluating personnel.
• Develops and implements action plans to improve staff development.
• Acts as resource to staff as clinical expert.
• Ensures individualized care goals are established.
• May provide clinical consultation and/or mentoring for professional staff.
• Demonstrates behaviors consistent with the criteria for professional practice.
• Ensures the highest quality of care is provided and is in compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements and established departmental policies and procedures.
• Monitors the quality of service and utilization standards and assumes specific responsibility for patient care at the agency/organization level.
• Researches, identifies, and implements best practice models of other agencies internally and externally.
• Participates in program management, including licensing, member satisfaction, budgeting, utilization and quality assessment/improvement activities including licensing to member satisfaction and budgeting.
• Ensures coordinated plans of treatment, customer focused care, and cost effective utilization of services.
• Monitors the allocation and utilization of personnel based on continual changes in patient population/needs and provides the best level of patient care while identifying savings opportunities.
• Works with health care providers outside of the agency to achieve optimal patient care across the continuum.
• Coordinates with appropriate team members or contract services for the clinical care of hospice and home health patients and families.
• Reviews performance of contracted staffing services for adherence to hospice and home health policies.
• Ensures patients receive quality care by reviewing documentation, making visits with staff, reviewing care plans, conducting/participating in multidisciplinary team conferences, and reviewing patient satisfaction reports.
• Investigates and resolves patient/family member concerns regarding patient care.
• May provide clinical consultation and/or mentoring for professional staff.
• Demonstrates behaviors consistent with the criteria for professional practice.
• Provides direct therapy/rehabilitation patient care services as needed.
• Kaiser Permanente conducts compensation reviews of positions on a routine basis. At any time, Kaiser Permanente reserves the right to reevaluate and change job descriptions, or to change such positions from salaried to hourly pay status. Such changes are generally implemented only after notice is given to affected employees.

Secondary Functions:

• This position requires field observation visits.
• This position requires Administrative On -Call rotation.