Lead Licensed Physical Therapist Or Licensed Occupational Therapist

Prava Therapy•Elk Grove, CA

4d•$50 - $56•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a Director of Rehabilitation to lead and grow a comprehensive rehabilitation program within a premier Tenfold Senior Living community in Northern California. The position involves leading the clinical environment, building a strong team, establishing clinical standards, partnering with community leadership, and creating a rehabilitation program that is recognized as an essential part of the community. The model emphasizes wellness, mobility, autonomy, and helping residents remain engaged in their community, focusing on outcomes like walking to dinner, getting to fitness class, participating in activities, going out with friends, moving safely around their apartment, and maintaining independence. Prava provides the infrastructure, including EHR and practice management technology, AI-enabled documentation tools, revenue cycle management, credentialing and payer support, recruiting infrastructure, marketing and referral support, clinical leadership and coaching, reporting and business intelligence, and operational support.

Requirements

A licensed rehabilitation clinician in California
An experienced PT, OT or SLP with demonstrated leadership ability
Comfortable leading clinicians while maintaining your own clinical practice
A strong clinical thinker who cares about quality—not just completed visits
A relationship builder who works naturally with senior living leadership
Interested in mentoring and developing other clinicians
Organized, accountable and comfortable using data to manage performance
Excited by the opportunity to build something rather than simply inherit a department

Nice To Haves

Senior living experience is valuable, but leadership ability, clinical judgment and the desire to build a great program matter just as much.

Responsibilities

Provide direct physical, occupational and/or speech therapy as appropriate to your discipline.
Establish a culture of strong clinical reasoning, evidence-based practice and resident-centered care.
Review documentation and clinical performance.
Support clinicians with complex cases and clinical decision-making.
Ensure evaluations, plans of care, progress reports and discharge planning reflect the resident's actual goals and needs.
Promote appropriate utilization and high-quality outcomes.
Recruit, onboard and develop rehabilitation clinicians.
Create accountability around productivity, documentation, scheduling and clinical quality.
Mentor therapists and assistants.
Establish a collaborative environment where clinicians can grow.
Lead regular clinical and operational meetings.
Develop strong relationships with executive directors, wellness leadership, nursing and resident services.
Participate in community meetings and identify residents who may benefit from therapy.
Build appropriate referral pathways.
Partner with the community's wellness and fitness programming.
Help position rehabilitation as part of the resident's broader lifestyle and independence—not simply a service delivered after a decline.
Monitor census, referrals, evaluations, visits and clinical utilization.
Identify opportunities to expand appropriate services.
Help develop new service lines as community needs evolve.
Use Prava's reporting and technology to understand what is happening inside the practice and where intervention is needed.