Therapy Manager

Socket.dev; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children's Hospital West Campus in Houston seeks a Manager of Therapy to direct the Therapy department's inpatient and outpatient operations, provide clinical direction to therapists, technicians, and students, and ensure high-quality patient care.

You will oversee scheduling, budgeting, audits, and compliance with JC, CARF, OSHA, and ADA, while mentoring staff and promoting a safe, patient-centered environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physical therapy or occupational therapy.
• TX PT/OT license required.
• 8 years healthcare experience.
• 2 years leadership/management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Direct daily operations of the Therapy Department to ensure efficiency and patient satisfaction.
• Coordinate clinical training and mentoring for staff.
• Manage staffing, budgeting and financial performance.
• Ensure regulatory and accrediting standards compliance (JC, CARF, OSHA, ADA).
• Conduct audits and collaborate with other departments to resolve issues.
• Hire, develop, and coach staff; investigate/resolving complaints.
• Organize orientation for new employees and interns.
• Support professional development and provide performance feedback.

Skills

Leadership experience

Staff coordination

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in physical therapy or occupational therapy

Job description

We're searching for a Manager of Therapy, someone who's ready to be part of the best ranked children's hospital in Texas and among the best in the nation. In this position, you'll direct, manage, and coordinate the Therapy department's daily inpatient and/or outpatient operations related to the provision of therapy services and provide clinical direction to therapists, technicians, and students.

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Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages Therapy Department daily operations to ensure efficiency, compliance and accuracy while maintaining optimum levels of patient and family satisfaction. Reviews processes to identify gaps between requirements and current outputs; identifies "possibilities" via benchmarking or other external comparisons. Generates ideas for solutions; analyzes the effect or impact of each solution; and selects appropriate solutions.
• Coordinates clinical training and mentoring for licensed and non-licensed staff based on identified individual and department needs and organizational requirements.
• Staff scheduling/productivity: Monitors staffing requirements and productivity levels by establishing staffing guidelines based on patient needs and budgetary guidelines; oversee annual capital and operating budgets and monitor financial performance and billing.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory and accrediting agency standards (JC, CARF, OSHA, and ADA)
• Completes audits using organizational electronic databases, identifies problems and opportunities for improvement, analyzes options, selects and implements effective improvements. Collaborates with other departments to identify and resolve issues related to Therapy departmental operations when necessary.
• Manages human resources through hiring, developing and coaching competent staff and investigating/resolving all employee, patient and physician complaints and concerns.
• Organizes orientation for new employees and student interns and ensures that new employee/student orientation procedures are completed.
• Facilitates professional development of direct reports for optimal contribution towards organizational and departmental priorities and goals. Analyzes performance and shares timely, specific, and constructive feedback.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in physical therapy or occupational therapy
• Required licenses/certifications:
  • PT - Physical Therapist by the State of Texas or OT - Occupational Therapist by the State of Teas
• 8 years of health care experience required
• 2 years of Leadership/Management experience in healthcare preferred

Texas Children's Hospital West Campus is Houston's first community hospital designed, built and equipped exclusively for children in one of the city's most rapidly growing communities in the area from Sugar Land to Bryan-College Station, Texas. Located at I-10 and Barker Cypress, our 515,007-square-foot hospital houses the only 24/7 pediatric emergency room in the Greater West Houston area, four operating rooms, 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 46 acute care beds, advanced imaging services including MRI and CT scans, a neurophysiology sleep lab, a pathology lab and a full-scale pharmacy.

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

Texas Children's is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.