Physical Therapist

Acute Team Leader (OT, PT, Speech)

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital · MFB at Covenant AcuteSaginaw, MITherapy ServicesFull-Time, Days, variesReq # 13044

Job Title: Acute Therapy Team Leader 

Job Code: 1173 

Department: Acute

FLSA Class: Salaried/Exempt 

Reporting Relationship: Therapy Manager - Acute

FTE: 1.0FTE (0.2 Administration, 0.8 Clinical/Patient Care)

Mary Free Bed Summary

We have the great privilege of helping patients and families re-build their lives. It’s extraordinarily meaningful work and the reason we greet the day with optimism and anticipation. When patients “Ask for Mary,” they experience a culture that has been sculpted for more than a century. Our hallmark is to carefully listen to patients and innovatively serve them. This is true of every employee, from support staff and leadership, to clinicians and care providers.

Mary Free Bed is a not-for-profit, nationally accredited rehabilitation hospital serving thousands of children and adults each year through inpatient, outpatient, sub-acute rehabilitation, orthotics and prosthetics and home and community programs. With the most comprehensive rehabilitation services in Michigan and an exclusive focus on rehabilitation, Mary Free Bed physicians, nurses and therapists help our patients achieve outstanding clinical outcomes. The growing Mary Free Bed Network provides patients throughout the state with access to our unique standard of care. 

Mission Statement  

Restoring hope and freedom through rehabilitation. 

Employment Value Proposition

At Mary Free Bed, we take pride in our values-based culture: 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Our Commitment to providing an inclusive environment for patients, families, staff, and community, through embracing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion T.O.G.E.T.H.E.R. 

Focus on Patient Care. A selfless drive to serve and heal connects all MFB employees. 

Clinical Variety and Challenge. An inter-disciplinary approach and a top team of professionals create ever-changing opportunities and activities. 

Family Culture. We offer the stability of a large organization while nurturing the family/team atmosphere of a small organization. 

Trust in Each Other. Each employee knows that co-workers can be trusted to make the right decision for our family, patients, staff, and community. 

A Proud Tradition. Years of dedicated, quality service to our patients and community have yielded a reputation that fills our employees with pride.

Age Specific Responsibility

Must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in assigned department. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to age-specific needs and to provide the care needed as described in the department’s policies and procedures. 

Summary  

Functions as a member of the clinical team, provides direct patient care and promotes effective and harmonious interdisciplinary team function through leadership, clinical supervision and oversight of daily operations.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Clinical Required: Provide patient care, treatment, and services within the scope of their license, certification or registration and as required by Federal and State laws and regulations. 

Provides patient care, treatment and services within the scope of their license, certification as required by law and regulation. 

Evaluates patient condition. 

Establishes treatment goals, written treatment plan, and administers treatment for each patient according to the stated goals. Delegates responsibilities to assistants and rehabilitation technicians as appropriate. 

Re-evaluates patient's status and effects of treatment. Revises treatment plan as necessary. Evaluates patient's need for medical equipment and orders the appropriate equipment as necessary.

Evaluates equipment upon delivery and instructs patient, patient's family, and health care workers on its use. 

Participates in planning for patient discharge by considering patient, family, community support/services, and environmental limitations. 

Documents patient's status and progress through initial evaluation, progress notes, and discharge summary according to internal/external time standards and requirements set by Centers for Medicare/ Medicaid Services (CMS) and other regulatory and accreditation bodies.

Communicates with others to integrate specific therapy treatment in optimizing total patient care. 

Participates in conferences/discussions and exchange of written records with other interdisciplinary team members to integrate specific therapy treatment plan. 

Instructs the patient and the family in specific therapy procedures as part of the home program. Provides written instructions as necessary. 

Instructs the visiting public, medical students, physicians, and other professionals in the methods of and objectives in area of expertise. 

Functions as a patient advocate and maintains patient confidentiality. 

Educational Responsibilities: 

Provides education/training of staff in the form of in-services. 

Participates in program development and/or research activities as requested. 

Serves as a resource person for patient care in areas of recognized clinical expertise. 

Serves as a Clinical Instructor for specified therapy students. Supervises, teaches, and evaluates skills of students. Communicates with participating universities regarding skill levels of students. 

Maintains expected productivity.

Manages staffing in alignment with inpatient census: 

Monitors inpatient census and assures appropriate staffing to maintain compliance with IRF requirements for therapy intensity. 

Collaborates with Inpatient Therapy Staffing Coordinator and patient scheduling staff to adjust staffing through call-offs, reassignment or arranging for additional coverage to manage patient care, compliance and productivity of staff. 

Collaborates with therapy staffing coordinator and other team leads to prioritize and approve requests for PTO. 

Talent acquisition and onboarding:

Assumes primary responsibility for interviewing and selection of candidates for open positions reporting to team lead, following MFB policies and procedures. 

Assumes primary responsibility for assuring completion of onboarding activities including orientation, education, competency validation and completion of 90 day probationary period staff evaluations according to established time standards.

Staff development, mentoring and engagement:

Maintains knowledge of current trends and developments in the field of rehabilitation for assigned populations to assure and promote evidence-based practice by all therapy staff under lead’s supervision. 

Provides and promotes on-going education, professional development and mentoring of staff within and across interdisciplinary team.

Encourages staff development through formal and informal learning opportunities, and using competency-based education systems. 

Engages staff in process improvement activities. 

Leads staff meetings with direct reports to facilitate effective communication relevant to department, program and organization operations. 

Facilitates the annual employee review process: 

Responsible for annual performance evaluation of direct reports and mid-year performance conversations.

Validates competency. 

Provides coaching to direct reports to address performance issues; develops and implements performance improvement plans as necessary.

Patient Care: 

Manages patient case assignment process. 

Assures that appropriate clinical standards of care are met for patients in areas of assigned responsibility, in accordance with hospital goals, policies and procedures and accreditation standards.

Assures that charges and clinical documentation for therapy staff are completed daily to support billing and compliance. 

Checks intensity of therapy provision and addresses corrective action needed on a daily basis for compliance. 

Develops and validates competency for safe and appropriate use of new equipment. 

Maintains therapy equipment and supplies, identifies need for repairs or replacement and intiates work requests or budget requests as needed to maintain safe working condition of therapy equipment.

Investigates patient concerns related to therapy and provides service recovery. 

Program Development Responsibilities: 

Reviews professional literature and facilitates development of clinical practice protocols. 

Serves on specialty program leadership team to review program performance outcomes and facilitate communication to treating staff of relevant information and facilitate implementation of action needed. 

Assures on-going program accreditation readiness. 

Provides clinical justification to support requests for therapy equipment. 

Provides input to Rehab Director in budget planning process. 

Exemplifies and holds others accountable to the MFB values and standards of behavior. 

Leadership Must-Haves will be followed for patient and staff interactions: 

Embrace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, by: 

Treating everyone with dignity and respect 

Opening more doors to opportunities for underrepresented cultures 

Growing talent and people 

Evaluating and eliminating disparities 

Taking action against injustices, bias and racism 

Honoring our differences and how to collaborate 

Educating staff, patients and the communities we care for 

Restoring Hope and Freedom, together 

Rounding

Thank You Notes

Employee Selection/Peer Interviewing

Key Words at Key Times

AIDET® + Promise

Standards of Behavior

Customer Service Responsibilities

Demonstrate excellent customer service and standards of behaviors as well as encourages, coaches, and monitors the same in team members. This individual should consistently promote teamwork and direct communication with co-workers and deal discretely and sensitively with confidential information.

Responsibilities in Quality Improvement  

Contribute by identifying problems and seeking solutions. Promote patient/family satisfaction where possible; participates in departmental efforts to monitor and report customer service. 

Essential Job Qualifications

Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Recreational Therapy, or Speech Language Pathology program. 

Licensed (or eligible for licensure) in Michigan. 

Minimum 4 years work experience in a relevant clinical rehabilitation setting. 

Possesses and demonstrates expertise in a specific diagnostic area of rehabilitation. 

Possesses and maintains CPR certification to meet department/program protocol. 

The physical ability to lift, position, and transport patients with physical impairments.

Demonstrates ability to supervise students. 

Preferred Job Qualifications

Experience with government reimbursement systems and other regulatory bodies related to service line. 

Demonstrates competence in relevant software and hardware required to meet job responsibilities.

Physical Requirements for Essential Job Qualification  

Levels: 

None (No specific requirements) 

Occasionally (Less than 1/3) 

Frequently (1/3 to 2/3) 

Majority (More than 2/3) 

Remain in a stationary position: Frequently

Traverse or move around work location: Frequently

Use keyboard: Frequently

Operate or use department specific equipment: None

Ascend/Descend equipment or ladder: None

Position self to accomplish the Essential Functions of the role: Occasionally

Receive and communicate information and ideas for understanding: Frequently

Transport, position, and/or exert force:

Up to 10 pounds: Majority

Up to 25 pounds: Frequently

Up to 50 pounds: Occasionally

Up to 75 pounds: Occasionally

More than 100 pounds: Occasionally

Other weight: Up to___ pounds _____

Other: _____

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this classification. If you require a reasonable accommodation to perform the essential functions of this position, you must request accommodation in writing, within 182 days after you know or should know of the need for accommodation. 

Mary Free Bed is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristic. 

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