Make an impact. Change lives. Live a Legacy.

As the Area Rehab Director you will be Living Your Legacy while helping your employees and the seniors we care for to live their best and healthiest life. Leadership experience in health care with responsibilities in multi-site areas is preferred!

The Area Rehab Director is responsible for direction and implementation of rehab services at assigned facilities. Accountable for achieving fiscal, clinical, operational, and quality benchmarks as established utilizing Legacy Healthcare Services (LHS) tools and modeling. Instrumental in helping to identify clinical needs of the census in assigned geographic area and ensures the hires support the LHS staffing model and clinical reach for the anticipated caseload. Develops and maintains professional relationships with customers, clients, and LHS personnel at all levels.

Your Legacy career offers great experiences, work/life balance, and excellent rewards, including:

• Desirable Monday 6Friday schedule with no weekend or holiday requirements
• 401(k)
• Medical/dental/vision/prescription/pet insurance
• Paid time off (PTO) with rollover and buyout options at year 27s end
• Company-paid group life
• Flex spending account
• Voluntary life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
• Licensure reimbursement
• Company-provided CEUs and unlimited online CEUs for full-time employees
• Career advancement opportunities

Position requirements: Requirements Qualifications/Education:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below illustrate the knowledge, skill, and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Preferred clinical background as a Physical Therapist (PT), Occupational Therapist (OT) or Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), a therapy assistant PTA or OTA with a bachelor 27s degree in a complementary field, or a tenured LHS therapy assistant.

• Two to three years 27 experience in Long Term Care (LTC), rehab agency or outpatient setting with at least one year of supervisory or administration experience.

• Minimum of a degree from accredited college or university or equivalent experience (i.e., degree in PT, OT, OTA, PTA, SLP).

• Must have solid understanding and comfort with computer skills.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Rehab Directors and other LHS employees at assigned sites.

Licenses:

Licensed and/or registered (PT, PTA, OT, OTA, SLP) in state of assigned sites.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands for this position are specifically outlined in Policy 2.4, Working Conditions. This policy is available by contacting the Human Resources Department and/or may be printed off the company intranet at: intranet.legacyhealthcare.net, Downloads, Admin Services Downloads, Policies and Procedures, Policy 2.4, Working Conditions.

Additional physical requirements not outlined in Policy 2.4 include the ability to drive routinely in an automobile.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities and those with temporary physical impairments due to workers 27 compensation injuries or illnesses to perform the essential functions and physical demands of the job.

Work Environment:

This is a clinic-based position. The work environment characteristics described here illustrate those an employee encounters while performing this job 27s essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel:

Frequent and as needed within assigned area.

Attend company training at regional and/or corporate level as requested.

Summary

Responsible for direction and implementation of rehab services at assigned facilities.

Accountable for achieving fiscal, clinical, operational, and quality benchmarks as established utilizing Legacy Healthcare Services (LHS) tools and modeling. Instrumental in helping to identify clinical needs of the census in assigned geographic area and ensures the hires support the LHS staffing model and clinical reach for the anticipated caseload. Develops and maintains professional relationships with customers, clients, and LHS personnel at all levels.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Interpersonal

• Communicates effectively and fluently with key management personnel of all assigned facilities and with LHS corporate personnel. Represents the company 27s best interest and communicates the company directives to assigned area in a positive, enthusiastic, professional way that promotes company culture and understanding of Legacy 27s missions, vision, and values according to standardized procedures.

• Introduces ideas/suggestions for service improvement for the assigned area and works closely with the RDO to implement any company endorsed ideas/suggestions aligned with the organization 27s intent to create excellence in therapy service delivery.

Fiscal Management

• Attains or exceeds budgeted goals and leads all direct reports to do the same.

• Good understanding of the reimbursement system(s) that drives revenue for assigned census and good knowledge of their regional Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) and Local Coverage Determination (LCD) Policies for Medicare.

• Able to offer a variety of suggestions on how clinical and operational adjustments can affect revenue and expenses to meet budgeted goals and takes every appropriate available action to enhance financial performance.

Clinical Management

• Responsible for direct patient care on an as needed basis.

• Ensures each community has active and ongoing clinical needs identification efforts and events.

• Implements and monitors Clinical Program Development for their assigned region. Ensures completion of staff training of clinical programs. Responsible for quality assurance in assigned region along with accountability for implementation of clinical programs.

• Able to assess patients 27 needs and develop clinical programming appropriate for the community census and to meet the customers 27 expectations.

• Partners with Rehabilitation Director to coordinate therapy personnel and community education.

• Responsible for clinical quality oversight in assigned communities, including but not limited to documentation review, survey preparedness, and clinical quality.

Operational Management

• Manages a robust therapy program aligned with Legacy policies, procedures, and culture.
• Makes operational decisions in accordance with the Legacy Policies and Procedure Manual and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Knows and applies company, state, and federal requirements specific to the practice setting.
• Manages staffing to meet caseload benchmarks in accordance with the Legacy staffing model and State Therapy Practice Act(s), and is able to justify variances to the Legacy staffing model with sound business rationale.
• Participates in internal/external marketing efforts to improve community awareness of therapy services, including networking events, community education, and direct face-to-face contact with referral sources.
• Implements Legacy value-added services in accordance with the company 27s expectations (LIVEWELL, health talks, etc.) and the community 27s approval.
• Maintains compliance in assigned communities.
• Participates in assigned start-ups in the region according to Legacy 27s Start-Up Execution Planner.

Human Resources Management

• Owns a culture of world-class talent.
• Responsible, in coordination with the Human Resources Department, for the recruitment, interviewing, hiring, orientation/training, and retention of talent. When needed, follows all company guidelines on remediation and/or disciplinary action.
• In cooperation with the RDO and/or the VP of Operations, authorizes hiring.
• Serves as a key leader in building team morale, employee engagement, and instilling the Legacy culture in all aspects of therapy service delivery.
• Creates and maintains professional relationships and open communication with community personnel and Legacy personnel at both the field and corporate levels that facilitate therapy service delivery excellence.
• Counsels employees with the advice and assistance of the RDO and Legacy Vice President of Human Resources.
• Conducts annual employee performance reviews and makes pay increase recommendations to the RDO.
• Ensures clinical mentorship programs are in place.
• Provides direct on-site support and training/modeling to assist Rehab Directors in building and maintaining a successful outpatient therapy clinic.

Other

• Understands that the position is highly influenced by the particular needs and expectations of Legacy customers in the assigned area and agrees to perform other duties as assigned.
• Demonstrates professional conduct and ethics in accordance with Legacy policies and procedures.

Pay RangeUSD $85,000.00 - USD $105,000.00 /Yr.