Position Summary

The Director of Rehab Services leads the daily operations, clinical excellence, and strategic growth of Baptist Health Princeton Hospital's Rehabilitation Services department.

Responsibilities

• Oversees rehabilitation operations, ensuring appropriateness of resources, personnel, and interdepartmental objectives.
• Demonstrates the ability to monitor all rehabilitation evaluation and treatment within professional practice standards, to ensure the delivery of quality and cost-effective services within an inpatient or outpatient setting.
• Works with Administration and Managers to develop and enforce departmental policies, procedures, competencies, and standards of performance which effectively integrate with other services to provide a continuum of care.
• Assures regulatory and accrediting compliance for all applicable corporate areas of Rehab services.
• Develops and executes business plans to address the strategic goals of the organization.
• Is accountable for financial and regulatory issues.
• Develops operational strategies to achieve cost-effective delivery of care by assisting with the development of realistic budgets, rational capital budget requests and support for management training in the delivery of cost-effective rehabilitative care.
• Manages various personnel functions including hiring, work assignments, coaching plans, and disciplinary actions.
• Manages various human resources functions including hiring, work assignments, coaching plans, and performance counseling.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Baptist Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Baptist Health policies and procedures.

 

Qualifications

Education/Training

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a rehabilitation field.

 

Licensure/Certification

• Current license in the State of Alabama as an Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, Audiologist or Speech Language Pathologist
• If, Speech Language Pathologist, must also have current Certificate of Clinical Competence.

 

Experience

• Five (5) years’ of related experience to include two years of supervisory or management experience within a rehabilitation setting.