Therapy Program Supervisor

Therapy Program Supervisor

Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care's purpose is simple, to provide high quality clinical home care to medically fragile children so they can grow and flourish to their full potential. We deliver this through our commitment to our purpose, our passion for what we do, and our pride in contributing to the health and wellbeing of children and their families. The Therapy Program Supervisor is a licensed PT, OT, or SLP who works closely with the Location Director and Director, Therapy to improve the quality of therapy services that patients receive from Thrive. The Therapy Program Supervisor functions both as a field clinician and as a therapist preceptor for the offices he/she supports. Responsibilities include delivering high quality patient care, as well as enhancing the clinical performance of the therapy field staff through ongoing education, ride-a-longs, onsite supervisory visits, and one-on-one and team meetings.

Minimum Hiring Requirements:

• Licensed PT, OT, or SLP
• 3+ years of pediatric therapy experience
• One-year home health experience desired
• Previous management experience is preferred

Essential Responsibilities:

• Recruit new therapy team members and assist in the interview process.
• Oversee the quality of therapy services by performing routine chart audits and competency checks.
• Model best practices of quality standards for all therapy staff by documenting at the point of care, adhering to company performance metrics, and providing the highest quality clinical care to home health clients.
• Ensure clarity and compliance with standard operating procedures and established processes for all therapists.
• Conduct regularly scheduled team meetings, followed by concise minutes and clearly articulated goals and action items.
• Communicate current regulatory standards and regularly monitor for compliance.
• Model clinical excellence in all facets of care.
• Meet or exceed all visit and documentation guidelines.
• Monitor State Practice Boards for OT/PT/ST updates, and provide monthly updates to team members.
• Participate in onboarding and orientation of new Therapy team members.
• Run required reports and analyze results as required.
• Perform timely onsite supervisory visits for therapy staff as required.
• Provide input for therapy staff reviews.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to juggle multiple responsibilities, while maintaining an approachable, professional, and friendly demeanor
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to train field staff to maximize efforts on each visit to ensure no unnecessary visits are performed.
• Extreme customer focus
• Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail
• Comfort and aptitude with latest technology
• Strong leadership skills balanced with desire to be part of and contribute to a team

Core Competencies / Attributes:

• Embraces Healthy Organization culture and practices and promotes Thrive's Core Values.
• Gains the trust of others through truthful communications and honest, constructive feedback.
• Creates an employer-of-choice culture by modeling high performance and behavior standards and holding team members accountable through regular performance reviews and assessments and ongoing feedback.
• Engages in and resolves conflict in an emotionally intelligent manner.
• Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others within and outside the organization.
• Always acts with the greater good of our clients and organization in mind.
• Builds constructive and effective relationships at all levels, inside and outside of the organization.
• Makes sound decisions, based on analysis, wisdom, experience, and good judgment.
• Solves difficult problems through rigorous analysis, probing of resources, and looking beyond the obvious.
• Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a desire to finish; meets commitments.
• Consistently exceeds goals and pushes self and others to excellence.

Travel Requirements:

• Travel to patient homes and for meetings required.

Essential Physical Demands Risk Category: I:

• May anticipate exposure to blood and/or body fluids during the performance of job duties.
• May be exposed to extremes in temperature and humidity when traveling and in client homes.
• May be exposed to dust, gas, fumes, and odors when traveling.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands of this job require constant visual and auditory requirements and sitting, keying and mouse input, occasional standing, walking, simple grasping, bending, squatting, kneeling, writing, pushing, pulling, reaching above and below the shoulder level.
• Position requires occasional lifting demands of up to 5 pounds and occasional carrying demands of up to 10 pounds up to 50 feet.

Acknowledgement: This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the role.