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OverviewUnit Coordinator Clinical Specialist, Speech Therapy Full Time, 80 Hours per pay period, Day Shift Claiborne Medical Center, a member of Knoxville-based Covenant Health, offers a full range of medical services including emergency care, general and orthopedic surgery, rehabilitation, and diagnostic services. Our radiology services are certified by the American College of Radiology in Computerized Tomography (CT), Mammography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Nuclear Medicine, and Ultrasound. Claiborne also provides skilled and long-term care through Claiborne Health and Rehabilitation Center. Our team of physicians and staff is dedicated to putting our patients first, every day. For more information, visit ClaiborneMedicalCenter.com. Position Summary: The Unit Coordinator Clin Spec PT provides supervision of daily operations, management, and leadership of patient care units or sites. Recruiter: Sandra Simmons ssimmon6@CovHlth.com (jlawles2@covhlth.com) 865-374-5368 Responsibilities
Advanced clinical practice – including evaluation and specialized treatment of patients. Serves as clinical resource as needed.
Performs patient evaluations (initial, progress, and discharge evaluations), establishes treatment plans, makes recommendations, and sets goals in accordance with patient needs and evidence based practice.
Meets established targets for passive/active treatment ratios as applicable.
Involves patient and family in treatment, education, and goal setting. Coordinates with other medical personnel regarding patient’s progress, needs, and discharge planning.
Demonstrates knowledge and competency including providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
Provides input, implementation, and evaluation of standards of care and evidence based practice:
Evidence base practice protocols
Clinical outcomes analysis and communication to team
New policy development and implementation
Process improvement/quality improvement
Facilitation and implementation of program development
Works with team members to establish, analyze, meet, and communicate targets/outcomes:
Quality/outcome measures – clinic and/or individual
Service/patient satisfaction measures – clinic and/or individual
Financial/productivity measures – clinic and/or individual
Growth measures – clinic and/or individual
People measures – clinic and/or individual
Promotes cultural change throughout the program to:
Create an environment to optimize patient care
Promote a shared vision
Enable and empower staff to implement improvements
Remove barriers that inhibit their achievement of goals
Provides supervisory leadership, management, and clinical responsibility:
Coordinates scheduling taking into account patient needs, workload, and skills/competency of team members
Assumes accountability for payroll accuracy
Maintains and updates patient documentation in accordance with professional, departmental, organizational, and payer guidelines and timeframes; maintains established targets for compliance with chart audits
Provides input to the Director to identify and meet educational/orientation needs of team members
Maintains flow of information needed for team to be effective; provides consistent, frequent feedback to team members regarding team performance related to established targets/outcomes
Performs staff performance appraisals, orientation, and competency assessments
Participates in the hiring process including providing hiring recommendations to Director
Prepares documentation for possible disciplinary action and makes recommendations regarding such to the Director; assumes accountability for conflict resolution
Responds to customer service needs
Provides input regarding policies and procedures as necessary
Markets product as defined in the marketing plan, as well as community involvement as applicable.
Participates in Covenant Health activities such as the marathon, golf tournament, sports physicals, employee education, etc.
Able to temporarily assume responsibilities of Manager/Director positions as needed.
Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
Performs other duties as assigned.
QualificationsMinimum Education: None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority. Minimum Experience: At least four (4) years’ rehab experience with two (2) of those years being in related setting. Licensure Requirement: Must have and maintain current Tennessee license as Physical, Occupational, or Speech Therapist; Clinical Psychologist; or CRRN required. CPR required. Apply/ShareJob Title UNIT COORD CLIN SPEC PT ID 3829960 Facility Claiborne Medical Center Department Name SPEECH THERAPY
Full-time