Director of Rehab - Southland

Director of Rehabilitation – Full Time – Southland Rehabilitation / Southland Living – Norwalk, CA
Occupational, Physical or Speech Therapist
 
Our flagship facility Southland and Southland Living, is seeking a dynamic Director of Rehab to join our wonderful in house therapy team in Norwalk, CA. Southland is a120-bed rehab facility with a 75 bed ALF and has consistently been an award winning skilled nursing facility. We are so proud of our excellent therapy, nursing and facility teams and our beautiful gym and outdoor therapy spaces.  
  • In house therapy – job stability, growing company
  • Lead a strong therapy team and support a strong inter-departmental team
  • Freedom to effect change in your facility clinical and program development
  • Be able to continue to treat patients and lead the therapy team
  • Excellent support from local therapy leaders and resources
  • Live with work life balance–competitive benefits
  • Strong infection control to prevent COVID and keep staff/residents safe
  • Relocation assistance- Case by case basis
Visit BuildingTherapyLeaders.com and find out how we are truly different in dignifying long term care.
  • Every facility has an in-house therapy team – no contract therapy company. All department teams work for the facility and share the same goals
  • Each facility is independently operated with local leadership and no corporate red tape
  • Decisions made at the facility for the facility staff and community needs
  • Core Values (CAPLICO): Customer Second, Accountability, Passion for Learning, Love One Another, Intelligent Risk Taking, Celebration, Ownership. These values are the core of who we are as an organization and shared among all affiliated facilities
Duties:
  • Implements and monitors the provision of facility Rehab policy and procedures
  • Supervises rehab staff and ensures effective rehab staff orientation, training and ongoing competency
  • Coordinates rehab admissions and distribution of caseload
  • Assists in the case management/tracking of Medicare A rehab cases under the PDPM  system
  • Recruits rehab staff
  • Manages and analyzes department metrics including accurate billing
  • Ensures that rehab department is compliant with all regulatory issues. This includes assurance that department records are completed and maintained, such as medical record documentation, reimbursement denials management and other survey compliance requirements.
  • Maintains relationships with hospital therapists, physicians and other key community members
  • Provides direct patient treatment
Qualifications:
  • Licensed Physical, Occupational or Speech Therapist
  • At least 3 years of experience as a therapist
  • Supervisory and/or administrative experience in long term care rehabilitation preferred
  • Knowledge of Medicare PDPM and ability to manage a variety of payors effectively
  • Strong organizational and leadership skills
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Physical Therapist - Southland Care

Southland Care Center, in Norwalk, CA, is seeking a full time PT to join our wonderful in house therapy team to treat patients and work closely with our highly qualified facility staff, residents and their families here. Southland is a 120-bed rehab facility with a 75 bed ALF and has consistently been an award winning skilled nursing facility. We are so proud of our excellent therapy, nursing and facility teams and our beautiful gym and outdoor therapy spaces. In return for your professional passion and clinical expertise, we offer competitive compensation, great benefits, paid CEU’s, generous paid time off as well as many career growth opportunities.
 

Southland Care Center receives support from Ensign Services who provides a wide range of clinical and operational assistance to over 200 independently owned healthcare operations located throughout the United States. Help us build something great and share in the Ensign experience with these in-house facility teams where our core values of  ownership, passion for learning, loving one another, and celebration are evident every day. Be sure to ask us about facility specific specialty programs like Heart PARC, Abilities Care, Music & Memory, Alter G, Big & Loud, and opportunities for you to continue learning and receive focused program training to enhance your therapy career.  
 
Experience/Qualifications:
Licensed Physical Therapist

 

Some of the required duties include:
  • Effectively screens/evaluates patients and/ with physical functioning disorders and/or wound care and develops appropriate plan of care following all regulatory and clinical practice standards.
  • Provides rehabilitative, skilled and medically necessary treatment intervention to patients with physical functioning disorders and/or wound care per regulatory and clinical practice requirements.
  • Administers various procedures as part of the rehabilitation plan including but not limited to:  manual techniques; ambulation; therapeutic exercises; modalities; use of supportive and assistive devices; wound care; etc.
  • Provides consultation and counseling to patients, as well as families, caregivers and other service providers related to the physical disorders.
  • Provides comprehensive discharge summary of services provided per regulatory and clinical requirements.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.