Director of Rehab - COTA Active Alabama license required

Champion, Partners in Rehab • Anniston, AL

12d • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for an energetic Director of Rehab at Anniston Health and Rehab in Anniston, Alabama. This role is open to a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant.

Requirements

• Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
• License to practice in Alabama as a COTA.
• Graduate from accredited university or college for practice area.

Responsibilities

• Stays in touch with customers on a regular basis and is pro-active to avoid problems rather than reactive in managing crisis.
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency in addressing customer issues.
• Has developed relationship of trust and partnering with each customer.
• Demonstrates ability to lead the customer to achieve the desired outcome.
• Attends facility meetings on a regular basis and is visible and available to the customer.
• Promotes teamwork and employee work satisfaction.
• Has empathy and understanding for the needs of others.
• Has good employee retention and loyalty.
• Has developed mutual respect with team and demonstrates leadership and team motivational skills on a consistent basis.
• Is readily and visible to team.
• Demonstrates logical thinking in opening new positions and achieving desired staff to patient care ratios.
• Demonstrates good interview and hiring skills.
• Is successful in recruiting for open positions.
• Provides good orientation to new employees.
• Ensures adequate staffing and coverage for each facility on a consistent basis.
• Tracks PPS and ARDs consistently to avoid costly mistakes.
• Participates in caseload management activities appropriately.
• Keeps manager informed of financial performance issues and is pro-active in maximizing opportunities.
• Effectively manages employee time off and labor expense.
• Reviews remittance notices monthly to ensure customer payment of services.
• Demonstrates ability to be objective and assert ideas and opinions in a non-aggressive manner.
• Communicates directly to avoid “grapevine” passing of information as much as possible.
• Demonstrates ability to effectively counsel and coach employees to achieve desired outcomes.
• Communication is open and honest.
• Communication is professional with proper use of grammar and syntax.
• Completes payroll activities timely and accurately.
• Maintains accurate logs of vacation balances, licensure expiration dates etc.
• Ensures that end of month logs are accurate and submitted timely to facility bookkeepers and supervisor for billing.
• Forms are ordered as needed as well as nametags etc.
• Ensures that employees have access to clinical help as needed.
• Routinely monitors QI reports.
• Completes routine QA audits on charts for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensures that assistants have supervision as needed and required by law.
• Keeps manager informed timely of pertinent issues.
• Puts action plans into place to correct problems and better yet intervenes early to avoid problems.
• Demonstrates ability to independently problem solve and initiative to take action.
• Follows through with plans and recommendations.
• Prioritizes issues accurately.
• Gives and receives feedback positively.
• Demonstrates flexibility.
• Demonstrates understanding of “big picture” instead of always task focused, and passes this vision along to team.
• Stays on top of issues and brings them to resolution.
• Consistently demonstrates open, honest and caring attitude.
• Never ask more of team than willing to give personally.
• Behavior and actions consistently demonstrate a pursuit of excellence.
• Sets an example of hard work, diligence, perseverance and honesty for team to follow.
• Embraces the highest standards of integrity and work ethics.
• Is internally motivated to “do the right thing” in each and every situation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree