Therapy Team Lead - Mercer and Surrounding Areas

Are you seeking a fulfilling career that allows you to deliver personalized, one-on-one patient care and contribute to a leadership role within your team?  

UPMC Home Health is hiring a skilled and compassionate Therapy Team Lead to join our home health interdisciplinary team! You’ll work in a home setting with a diverse patient population throughout these surrounding communities. You will also have the opportunity to coordinate therapy services, be a clinical resource for your peers, and mentor newly hired employees.

Responsibilities:
 

• Attend compliance training and adhere to the organization's standards of conduct, policies, and procedures.
• Focus on customer service and continually strive to perform the duties of their job in a manner that will result in optimal patient satisfaction.
• Identify, develop, and participate in process improvement opportunities within the home health agency that will enhance the quality of services we provide.
• Perform duties and job responsibilities in a fashion that coincides with the service management philosophy towards patients, visitors, staff, peers, physicians, and other departments within the organization.
• Direct, advise, and facilitate patient care according to CoP and policies and procedures of the home health organization. 
• Coordinate all therapy secondary referrals promptly (within agency timeframes), assuring productivity standards are met before work-plus is charged or referrals are given to contractors. Assure the timeliness of referrals to contractors.
• Schedules patients to achieve and maintain a level of productivity that meets or exceeds the expected standard established for the facility by the organization while ensuring delivery of quality patient care.
• Communicates patient's status to the referring physician and other health care team members.
• Provides verbal and/or written home instructions to patient and/or family members when applicable.
• Maintains written documentation for all therapy services rendered, including documentation of initial assessment, follow-up visits, and discharge summary consistent with department standards.
• Performs therapy assessment, reassessment, and treatment, and supervises assistants in the treatment of pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients referred by a physician to the clinic. 
• Develops plan of care, including goals and treatment plan in accordance with physician referral, nature of injury/illness, and results of therapy assessment. 
• Modifies or adjusts plan of care based on patient's response to treatment and/or changes in patient's status. Works with PTAs and COTAs to adjust patient programs as patient status changes.