Therapy Team Lead-Cannonsburg

Therapy Team Lead – Cannonsburg and Surrounding Area

Apply to the Therapy Team Lead – Cannonsburg and Surrounding Area role at UPMC.

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? 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.

• 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 your 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 provided.
• Perform duties and job responsibilities in a manner consistent with the service management philosophy toward 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 time frames) ensuring productivity standards are met before work-plus is charged or referrals are given to contractors.
• Schedule 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.
• Communicate patient’s status to the referring physician and other health care team members.
• Provide verbal and/or written home instructions to patients and/or family members when applicable.
• Maintain written documentation for all physical therapy services rendered including documentation of initial assessment, follow-up visits, and discharge summary consistent with department standards.
• Perform physical therapy assessment, reassessment, and treatment, and supervise physical therapist assistants in the treatment of pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients referred by a physician to the clinic. Develop a plan of care including goals and treatment plan in accordance with physician referral, nature of injury/illness, and results of physical therapy assessment. Modify or adjust plan of care based on patient’s response to treatment and/or changes in patient’s status.
  
  Work with PTAs to adjust patient programs as patient status changes.

• Licensed Physical Therapist (PT) in the state of PA. Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy Program; B.S. Degree in Physical Therapy required. Member of the American Physical Therapy Association preferred.
• Licensed Occupational Therapist (OT) in PA and Ohio (where applicable) required. Graduate of an accredited Occupational Therapy program; B.S. Degree in occupational therapy required. Certification by National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) required. Member of American Occupational Therapy Association preferred.
• Current Speech Language Pathologist license in PA and/or Ohio (where applicable) required. Master’s Degree Speech Language Pathology required. Certificate of Clinical Competence required. Member of American Speech and Hearing Association preferred.
• CPR required based on AHA standards including both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.
• Other required clearances:
  Automotive Insurance, Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Driver’s License, Occupational Therapist (OT) or Physical Therapist (PT) or Speech Pathologist, Act 33, Act 34, OAPSA.

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Other
• Industry: Hospitals and Health Care

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.