Director of Rehabilitation

Ridgecrest Health and Rehabilitation is looking for a director of rehabiliation to join our wonderful team.

About us: Ridgecrest Health and Rehabilitation is tucked into a quiet and relaxing community. Ridgecrest provides top of the line care and rehabilitation services, designed around our guests' needs. Through personalized care plans our guests experience quality care in a close-knit community.

While working here, you will enjoy:

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance. Your well-being is important, and we value it.
• Paid time off. Because as much as you love your job, we want you to also love having time to be you.
• A 401K retirement plan. You're our company's future; let us help you take care of yours.
• Continuing education credits. Life, learning, and education are our top priorities.
• Supportive management, cohesive work environment and many different career paths to help you achieve your professional goals

Qualifications of the director of rehabiliation position: 

• 3 years' experience in rehabilitative nursing practices
• 1 year's experience as a supervisor in a hospital, nursing care facility, or other related health care facility
• Must possess a current, unencumbered rehabilitation therapist license as a Physical Therapist/Assistant or Occupational Therapist/Assistant

Duties and responsibilities of the director of rehabiliation position:

• Plan, develop, organize, implement, evaluate, and direct the rehabilitation services of the Facility
• Assume responsibility for daily staffing and utilization with input from treating rehabilitation therapists, residents' needs, and recommendations from the Administrator
• Maintain a productive working relationship with the medical profession and other health-related facilities and organizations
• Coordinate rehabilitation services with other departments as necessary
• Ensure that all charted rehabilitation progress notes are informative and descriptive of the services provided and of the resident's response to the service
• Involve the resident and family in planning objectives and goals for the resident
• Review and check competence of rehabilitation personnel and make necessary adjustments or corrections
• Determine departmental staffing requirements necessary to meet the Rehabilitation Department's needs
• Schedule department work hours (including vacation and holiday schedules), personnel, work assignments, etc.
• Assist in standardizing the methods in which rehabilitation programs will be performed and/or administered
• Conduct departmental performance evaluations in accordance with the Facility's policies and procedures
• Participate in the review and completion of appropriate resident assessment items, review of quality indicators, quality measures, survey results, appropriate to rehabilitation services
• Make necessary changes that correct identified or potential problem areas
• Maintain an excellent working relationship with other department supervisors and coordinate the rehabilitation program to assure that rehabilitation services can be performed without interruption
• Make daily rounds to assure that rehabilitation personnel are performing required duties, and to assure that appropriate rehabilitation programs are being rendered to meet the needs of the resident