Clinical Manager - Home Health

Clinical Team Lead

The Clinical Team Lead is responsible for ensuring that patient care is coordinated and managed appropriately. The Clinical Team Lead is responsible for ensuring that care and services are delivered appropriately and for the supervision of clinical personnel.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties Include But Are Not Limited To The Following :

• Develops and initiates the plan of care and assumes responsibility for the ongoing interdisciplinary assessment and development of the individualized plan of care in partnership with the patient, family, and caregivers.
• Initiates proper preventative and rehabilitative nursing procedures and provides services as ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care.
• Ensures a Clinical Manager / Supervisor is available during all operating hours.
• Assures the development, implementation, and updates of the individualized plan of care, including communication with all physicians involved in the plan of care and integration of orders, including medication orders.
• Receives case referrals and accepts those that the agency can appropriately serve.
• Reviews available patient information related to case, including home visits, to determine home health care needs. Assigns appropriate home care personnel to case as needed.
• Attends conferences with attending physician regarding any questions about an individual's eligibility for services.
• Reviews and evaluates each case by assessing the services provided by clinicians, case conferences, performing record review, discusses and verifies impressions, instructs and guides clinicians to promote more effective performance and delivery of quality home care services, and is available at all times during operating hours to assist clinicians, as appropriate.
• Reviews patient's medical diagnosis, procedures, medications, and clinical course.
• Assists clinicians in establishing immediate and long-term therapeutic goals, in setting priorities, and in developing plan of care.
• Attends, leads, and documents case conference meetings with agency personnel to facilitate coordination of care.
• Participates in quarterly record reviews and communicates findings and recommendations to Director of Nursing and appropriate agency personnel.
• Assists in the screening and interviewing process of new agency personnel and makes recommendations for employment of individuals. Assists in the orientation of new agency personnel.
• Assists Director of Nursing in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of in-service and continuing education programs.
• Complies with accepted professional standards and principles.
• Participates in public relation and community activities that promote the agency's role as an effective member of the health care delivery system.
• Participates actively in quality assessment performance improvement program.
• Performs other duties and activities as delegated by the Director of Nursing and / or Branch Manager.

The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.

Qualifications & Requirements For The Position :

Preferred Knowledge And Skills :

Supervisory Responsibilities :

Physical Demands And Work Environment :

50%) of daily assignments may require travel to client / resident / patient locations or other work sites, via car or public transportation. Work schedule may occasionally require evening, night, holiday, or weekend assignments.