Director of Home Health Clinical Services - WellMed Homecare Dimensions

Director of Home Health Clinical Services - Well Med Homecare Dimensions at Optum summary:

The Director of Home Health Clinical Services at Well Med Homecare Dimensions leads and manages multiple branch operations across Texas, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, and cost-effective home health care. This role involves supervising clinical and non-clinical staff, maintaining regulatory compliance, coordinating patient care, and driving financial performance. The Director also focuses on continuous quality improvement, staffing development, community engagement, and business growth initiatives within the home health care sector.

Well Med, part of the Optum family of businesses, is seeking a Director of Clinical Services to join our team in Mcallen, TX. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you’ll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.

At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and erience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country.

Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Director of Clinical Services is responsible for the management and supervision of all branch operations including home health for all GSTX markets. They will implement and maintain performance improvement activities and maintains regulatory standards for each branch. This Manager directly and indirectly supervises all members of the branch staff and performs all functions in professional and ethical manner and collaborates with other members of the health care team to ensure quality patient care.

The Director of Clinical Services will assure consistent, appropriate, and cost effective care by actively managing patient / client needs, payer's expectations, company policy compliance, and agency financial
objectives. They will maintain accountability for achieving financial targets / profitability for the operation by empowering and challenging people, recruiting and training the best people, delivering quality in everything they do, providing the right incentives, providing the resources people need, and creating an environment that enables people to be successful.

Position Highlights & Primary Responsibilities:

• Directs the daily operations of the GSTX branches (Alice, Corpus Christi, McAllen, and El Paso) to ensure the provision of safe, quality, cost-effective care to patients that contributes to the financial success of the branch
• Regularly evaluates the services and care provided by the branches to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, company policies and procedures and sound business practices
• Directs the recruitment, hiring, and development of sufficient clinical and non-clinical staff to ensure the delivery of safe and consistent quality care to all patient/clients 24/ 7
• Assures that clinical caregivers have demonstrated the ability to perform accurate and complete assessments, communicate with physicians, plan for service delivery, plan for discharge, and make excellent professional decisions
• Directs or delegates the assignment of staff, monitoring of daily and weekly schedules, and the matching of caregiver qualifications to patient/client needs, Manage quality through patient/client care appraisals and employee supervision
• Directs and participates in care coordination activities that effectively coordinate communication regarding patient/client problems, needs, psychosocial and spiritual concerns, and implementation of an…