Therapy Team Lead

UPMC Home Health Therapy Lead Huntingdon

Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can provide direct, one-on-one patient care and serve in a leadership role for your team?  We are 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 adheres to the organization standards of conduct, policies, and procedures.
• Focus on customer service and continually strives 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 which 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 in a timely manner (within agency timeframes) assuring productivity standards are met before work-plus is charged or referrals are given to contractors. Assure timeliness of referrals to contractors.
• Schedules patients to achieve and maintain a level of productivity which 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 physical therapy services rendered including documentation of initial assessment, follow-up visits, and discharge summary consistent with department standards.
• Performs physical therapy assessment, reassessment and treatment and supervises physical therapist 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 physical therapy assessment. Modifies or adjusts plan of care based on patient's response to treatment and/or changes in patient's status. Works PTAs to adjust patient programs as patient status changes.