Therapy Team Lead -West Mifflin

Therapy Team Lead - West Mifflin and Surrounding Areas

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 standards of conduct, policies, and procedures.
• Focus on customer service and continually strive to perform the duties of the 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 manner 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 in a timely manner (within agency time frames) assuring productivity standards are met before work-plus is charged or referrals are given to contractors. Assure timeliness of referrals 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 healthcare team members.
• Provide verbal and/or written home instructions to patient 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 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 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, OR Licensed Occupational Therapist in PA and in Ohio, where applicable. Graduate of an accredited Occupational Therapy program, B.S. Degree in needed occupational therapy. Certification by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) required.
  
  Member of American Occupational Therapy Association preferred, OR Current Speech Language Pathologist license in PA and/or in Ohio where applicable. Master’s Degree in Speech Language Pathology required. Certificate of Clinical Competence required. Member of the American Speech and Hearing Association preferred.

• 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

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

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Hospitals and Health Care