Rehab Therapy Manager

Overview

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation Position: Rehab Therapy ManagerLocation: West Orange, NJSchedule: Full-time Monday - Friday 8AM - 4PM or 7:15AM - 3:15PM Occasional weekend/holiday responsibilities Compensation: $105,000 - $130,000 a Year (Based on Experience)

 

Our inpatient rehabilitation hospital is committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to best address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas. 

 

We support your career growth and personal well-being:

• Start Strong: Extensive Orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
• Advance Your Career: Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities.
• Elevate Your Skills: Clinical ladder program.
• Ease the Burden: Student debt benefit program.
• Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings
• Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO to maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection
• Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 nationwide committed to providing exceptional care.

Responsibilities

As a Rehab Therapy Manager, you will oversee, guide, and mentor the entire rehab team to ensure the plan of care for the patient population is being followed at all times.

• Directing rehab services operations, such as staff interviews, orientation, performance appraisals, employee development, and supervision.
• Scheduling rehab therapy staff.
• Ensuring that the rehab services being provided are appropriate to the scope and level of care for the patients being served.
• Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to ensure quality and efficient service delivery.
• Serving as a liaison between the Rehab Therapy department and the Chief Nursing Officer to further clinically develop staff, service, and/or rehab program.
• Actively promoting professional development, education, and competency of rehab staff.
• Demonstrating awareness of the department’s needs and assisting with daily operations

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Current state licensure as a Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, or Speech Language Pathologist required. (For Speech discipline: Current Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech-Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language & Hearing Association required)
• Certified BLS or completion in the first 90 days of employment required

Preferred Qualifications:

• A minimum of three (3) years of experience as a therapist, with leadership experience preferred

Additional Data

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans