Clinical Director PT

POSITION SUMMARY: The Clinical Director drives clinical practice by leading the Regional VicePresidents and Clinical Operations Area Directors in promoting consistent and efficient evidence-based practice in patient identification, comprehensive assessment using standardized tests and/or objective measures, patient-centered intervention in order to achieve targeted clinical outcomes. The Clinical Director develops and strategically directs the organization in clinical analysis, education, training, and strategic planning in order to ensure the provision of quality care across all disciplines. The Clinical Director serves as a clinical expert and provides leadership and focus for the clinical team within the organization, in their discipline and respective specialty practice areas. The Clinical Director utilizes an analytical process to guide clinical operations within the organization in the identification and implementation of clinical service delivery, programs, and initiatives.
RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES:1. Influences the clinical practice of the organization through the ability to motivate others, positiverole modeling, and providing leadership to achieve company goals.2. Proactively provides an assessment, analysis and related plan for improvement for the state ofclinical practice at large which includes, but is not limited to, evidence-based practice, bestpractice guidelines, and appropriate tools and resources to enhance and improve care delivery.3. Completes root cause analysis in focus centers (those that trigger for clinical operational orquality improvement) and provides direction and leadership of GRS clinical standards andregulatory oversight in the creation of a strategic education plan, implementation plan andclinical quality improvement plan for the center.4. Analyzes and provides feedback regarding the clinical needs assessments for focus centers, area,and region completed by Clinical Operations Area Directors to effectively guide the developmentof strategic plans that clearly outline clinical practice opportunities when existing plans have notresulted in effective or improved delivery of care that meets GRS standards as evidenced byclinical outcomes.5. Provides clinical leadership in the ongoing development of clinical processes and improvementplans in focus centers, areas, and regions to create sustainability of clinical service improvementover time evidenced by clinical outcomes.6. Provides clinical expertise and leadership as necessary to develop an implementation plan,clinical quality improvement and create sustainability of clinical service improvement over time.7. Analyzes the educational/programmatic training needs of a center, area, customer chain, regionfor accurate identification of clinical growth opportunities that impact GRS standards of care;directs operational leadership in establishing an education plan and provides access toeducational resources. Strategically identifies effective modes of delivery for education within alllevels of the organization, leveraging resources effectively and responsibly.8. Supports the organization in the development of center, area, customer chain and regionaleducation; successfully directs operations leadership team in establishing implementation plansto effectively deliver education. Provides education throughout the organization and strategicallyidentifies and develops qualified individuals within the organization who demonstrate advancedclinical knowledge and the desire to educate others.9. Acts as a clinical resource and content expert in the development of clinical education andinitiatives; in the following, but not limited to, areas-- interpretation and application of clinicaloutcomes, clinical operations systems and processes, care delivery model design andimplementation.10. Acts as a clinical resource and expert on discipline-specific standards of practice, codes of ethics,and practice acts which may include clinical specialization, advanced clinical teaching andtraining, mentoring and professional association representation.11. Acts as a clinical resource and content expert respective to identified specialty practice areas asit relates to interdisciplinary roles, and is able to access interdisciplinary resources.12. Participates in and represents Powerback Rehab Services in local, state and/or national associationactivities, models active engagement to GRS leaders and staff, provides education to leadership,and passionately communicates regarding benefits of active engagement in these activities.13. Recognizes the advanced clinical skills of the master clinicians and engages them in clinicalprojects based on specialty area as indicated. Provides clinical oversight through the organizationin the development of individualized professional growth plans in specialized clinical areas toadvance clinical growth in the region.14. Performs documentation audits, QI/QA and case management reviews in center/region asdirected by the Sr. Clinical Director and Vice President of Clinical Operations to identify specificclinical trends and areas of opportunity in the provision of value based health care services.Provides direction and resources to the leadership team with specific clinical areas of a QI/QAplan to effectively mitigate risk.
15. Participates in compliance investigations as directed by the Sr. Clinical Director and VicePresident of Clinical Operations when the investigation requires a specialized skill of the ClinicalDirector to effectively interpret, analyze and provide guidance to leadership to formulate resultsthat are consistent and accurately reflect state/national practice acts/laws and regulatorygoverning bodies and profession association standards.16. Participates in collaborative clinical quality improvement initiatives with internal and externalcustomers as directed by the Sr. Clinical Director and Vice President of Clinical Operations inorder to drive clinical care delivery to the GRS standard (e.g., Peer Survey Teams, mock surveys,etc.).17. Participates strategically in customer meetings and activities, with a focus on differentiating GRSas a clinical leader. Develops clinical strategic plan for each customer including chain customers.Demonstrates clinical expertise in their own discipline as well as expertise within aninterdisciplinary care delivery model. Clearly articulates and demonstrates to business partnersthe value of GRS philosophy of care, programming and resources.18. Provides discipline-specific patient care with the intent to model effective assessment andtreatment, manage a difficult case or population, facilitate clinical reasoning of clinicians, and inemergency situations to address an unmet patient need.19. Performs other related duties as required.
 
DRCPSPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL/VOCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:1. They must have a valid Physical Therapy license in the state(s) of practice, or proof of license and eligibility.2. They must have a Master's degree in Physical Therapy; or3. They must have a Master's degree in a Physical Therapy related field in addition to a Bachelor's degree in Physical Therapy; or4. They must have a Bachelor's degree in Physical Therapy plus 5 years of progressively responsible PT experience.5. The qualifying Physical Therapy degree earned outside of the U.S. must be evaluated to be the U.S. equivalent to a degree in Physical Therapy.6. The Clinical Director must be licensed/certified/registered as required in the states in which they practice and must be certified or registered by the appropriate national board.7. A Clinical Director will have a minimum of 3 years experience practicing in an adult and/or geriatric clinical setting, including one year of management/supervisory experience.8. A record of affiliation and active participation in geriatric-related professional/educational activities and/or national/state professional associations is preferred.9. Patient care experience within the last 2-3 years is required.