Supervisor - Occupational Therapy

Supervisor, Occupational Therapy

Reports to: Associate Director, Rehabilitative Services

MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is to eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation, and the world through outstanding programs that integrate patient care, research and prevention, and through education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the public.

SUMMARY

• Provide direct supervision of assigned Therapy operations.
• Coordinate and support clinical aspects of care for patients with Therapy needs.
• Plan, coordinate, and organize assigned Therapy services.
• Orient, supervise, coach, mentor, and perform performance evaluations of assigned therapists and assistants.
• Render direct patient care needed.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

• Insure direct report personnel are appropriately selected and oriented.

•     Evaluate performance of direct reports using the Institutional Performance Evaluation system within Institutional time frame. 
•     Holds staff accountable for behavior and performance by providing timely and specific feedback and discipline as appropriate.

• Provides routine clinical and behavioral supervision to guide direct reports toward excellence in care.
• Assesses the development needs of direct reports.
• Collaborates with direct reports and peers to plan and implement development plans for direct reports.
• Provides appropriate rewards and recognitions to staff to foster continued development and employee satisfaction.
• Manage day to day staffing levels and distribution of patient load and screens.
• Maintain adequate staffing via management of leave requests, per diem and contract services.
• Plan work activities of the team. Help team effectively rearrange its priorities when conditions change.
• Provide team with necessary resources to perform its task.
• Foster and maintain relationships with all customers to facilitate delivery of patient care across continuum.
• Assesses the needs of customers including patients, families, physicians, and other departments.
• Completes customer rounding to established expectations and takes appropriate action.
• Makes appropriate efforts to identify programmatic needs and to initiate program development, quality or process improvement or educational activities.
• Lead, participate in, or mentor a department Performance Improvement Project and/or process improvement activities
• Insure staff compliance with regulatory requirements
• Establish and ensure best practice by teaching, auditing, & mentoring and taking appropriate action as indicated.
• Other duties as assigned.

COMPETENCIES

1. Coach and Develop - Assess strengths and development needs of employees; provide challenging development opportunities; provide relevant, timely feedback; mentor others.

2. Patient Care - Employee demonstrates population-based competencies that cross the continuum of care; Employee functions within their professional scope.

3. Team with Others - Initiate, develop, and manage relationships and networks; encourage collaboration and input from all team members; value the contributions of all team members; balance individual and team goals

Service Orientation

• Provide service to our customers, including patients, patient caregivers, referring physicians and each other, in a reliable, responsive, safe, friendly and courteous manner.
• Promotes collegiality by demonstrating respect and professionalism to others at all times
• Models safe, ethical behavior, mitigating risk to the institution through sound business practices, and adherence to MD Anderson’s Standards of Conduct, institutional policies and procedures
• Meets time and attendance expectations and responds to requests in a timely manner, communicating expectations for procedures, service arrival, or project deliverables to patients and coworkers
• Admits when wrong, apologize and take steps to resolve a situation to help to patients and coworkers before being asked

REQUIREMENTS

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school of Occupational Therapy.

Preferred Education: Master’s degree from an accredited school of Occupational Therapy.

Required Experience: Four years of experience as an occupational therapist to include one year of lead of supervisory experience. 

Preferred Experience: Experience in an acute care setting, preferably an oncology setting. Experience in supervision and/or teaching.

Preferred Licenses: Current  license to practice occupational therapy in the state of Texas from the Texas State Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners.  Current CPR certification.