Clinical Lead - Outpatient Assisted Living
Independence Rehab - Rose Villa Senior Living | Portland OR
Full-Time | Flexible Schedule | Therapist-Owned
This role blends clinical practice with leadership. You'll shape team culture, support clinicians, and partner with facility leadership to ensure therapy services remain patient-centered, compliant, and sustainable.
Whether you're an experienced manager or a strong clinician ready to grow into leadership, Independence Rehab is a place where leaders feel supported and teams feel the difference.
What a Day Looks Like
As Clinical Lead, your work is relationship-driven, collaborative, and highly impactful.
You'll lead a medically complex geriatric therapy program while maintaining an active patient caseload.
Your responsibilities include:
• Overseeing the entire therapy department including full-time, part-time, and PRN staff
• Attending multi-disciplinary facility management meetings
• Managing relationships with facility leadership and administration
• Interviewing and hiring therapy staff in partnership with Recruiting
• Creating and managing therapy team schedules
• Monitoring department revenue and expenses to support sustainable profitability
• Serving as a key contact for patients, families, and caregivers
• Carrying a regular caseload (minimum ~50% productivity; varies by program size)
• Ensuring strict compliance with regulatory requirements and documentation standards
• Training and mentoring staff on policies, procedures, and clinical expectations
• Supporting a culture focused on functional outcomes and team collaboration
Why Leaders Choose Independence Rehab
We're a therapist-owned company that operates therapy services independently - allowing clinical leaders to lead thoughtfully without constant external pressure.
Our leaders often say the biggest difference is the balance between autonomy and support.
• Realistic productivity expectations for leaders
• Strong corporate involvement without micromanagement
• Stable leadership with low turnover
• Autonomy in clinical and operational decision-making
• Protection from unrealistic facility pressure
• Therapy operates independently from nursing management
• Strong outcomes and respected reputation
• Opportunity to build and shape your team culture
Leadership & Support
We don't believe leadership should feel isolating.
You'll receive:
• Structured onboarding into DOR responsibilities
• Operational and compliance support
• Recruiting partnership for staffing needs
• Mentorship from experienced therapy leadership
• Ongoing guidance on PDPM strategy and department performance
Benefits
We invest in our leaders in ways that support both career and life:
• Competitive compensation structure
• Up to 3.5 weeks PTO annually
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Continuing education reimbursement (up to $750/year)
• Health Savings Account options
• Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Basic Life and Accidental Death coverage
• Voluntary Life and Disability options
• 401(k) with employer match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Teladoc access
Education & Experience
• Current Washington State Physical Therapist Assistant in good standing
• Minimum one-year SNF clinical experience
• Prior DOR experience preferred but not required
• Solid understanding of Medicare, Medicaid, private pay, and PDPM reimbursement
• Driven, teachable, detail-oriented, and organized
• Competent and confident leading, motivating, and developing others
• Sincere love for the geriatric population - they are who matter most
If you're a clinician ready to lead, build a team, and create a therapy program where both patients and therapists thrive, we'd love to talk.
Apply today - we're actively interviewing.
