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Other Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Universal Precautions Category I.
• Must possess valid Illinois driver’s license and must be deemed as an acceptable driver in accordance with the MHS Fleet Safety Policy (five year MVR will be required). Must show proof of automobile insurance.

• Provides rehabilitative care to patients of all ages. 
• Evaluates treatment needs of assigned physician referred patients of all ages 
• Implements the patient treatment according to the program plan, assesses the patient’s response and revised the program as needed. 
• Effectively communicates with the patient, family members, hospital staff and the public. 
• Keeps timely and accurate medical, administrative and education records. 
• Coordinates effective patient care with the assistance of the Physical Therapy Assistant and Physical Therapy Aide. 
• Maintains skills in treatment procedure through utilization of in-service and continuing education opportunities and expertise of other clinical staff personnel. 
• Demonstrates effective use of departmental equipment for patient care 
• Contributes to the maintenance of a satisfactory work environment. 
• Promotes health and safety in the work environment. 
• Actively participates in competency assessment process. 
• Performs other related work as required or requested. 

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job.  Incumbents may be requested to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Required Skills

1. Interprets plans, establishes, and exercises proper treatment program in accordance with the physician’s referral, periodically, reviewing the patient’s program and response and making recommendations to the physician relative to the need of continuing or discontinuing the physical therapy treatment
2. Assists the physician in evaluating disability, injury, or disease process of individual patients and in evaluating the patient’s level of function
3. Contacts the physician directly for patient reports and care as needed
4. Observes, records, and reports to the physician the patient’s reaction to the therapy program or any changes in the patient’s condition
5. Submits to the physician appropriate written reports to the patient’s progress at the designated intervals using appropriate and designated forms
6. Assists in determining the needs of the patient and in developing the total plan of care
7. Treats patients and their families with respect and dignity
8. Identifies and addresses psychosocial, cultural, ethnic and religious/spiritual needs of patients and their families/care givers
9. The clinician will need to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to ages specific to the patient population for the clinician. This could include the following groups:  infants (0-12months), children (1 year – 12 years), adolescents (13 years -18 years), adult (18 years-65 years), older adults (65 years +). 
10. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to infants (0-12months), children (1 year – 12 years), adolescents (13 years -18 years), adult (18 years-65 years), older adults (65 years +)
11. Instructs, teaches and supervises patients regarding physical therapy procedures as related to the patient’s therapy programs
12. Formulates a teaching plan based upon identified learning needs and evaluates effectiveness of learning, family and care givers are included in teaching as appropriate
13. May supervise physical therapist assistants, rehabilitation aides, volunteers, or students in regards to patient care techniques and needs
14. Enhance professional development through participation in continuing education programs and in-service meetings
15. Attend and participates in meetings as required
16. Adheres to all applicable federal, state, local, and company maintained standards of care and ethics and policies concerned with the practice of physical therapy and among other things, personnel qualifications
17. Meets productivity and utilization expectations as established by the facility
18. Completes timely clinical documentation to include functional goal-setting, progress and therapeutic approach as well as administrative/billing documentation timely and accurately
19. Assists in maintaining department policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, environmental, and infection control programs
20. Assist in care and maintenance of department equipment and supplies
21. Performs other related work as required or requested.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job.  Incumbents may be requested to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Required Skills

Primary Care Physician – Practice Specifics & Compensation:

• Monday – Friday
• Flexibility on hours/day worked
• Outpatient only with a call rotation.
• Each physician is responsible for taking their own call.
• Telenurse provides after-hours triaging for the physicians. Telenurse triages and follows set protocols to reduce the volume of phone calls/pages the physicians receive after-hours. During vacation, sick, etc. IM & FM physicians within the clinic cover each other for office and after-hour calls. The Jacksonville clinic is typically staffed with 2 IM physicians, 4 FM physicians and 2 Peds physicians who take call.
• Expected call volumes – After-hour calls that reach physicians are low. Typically less than 5 calls per month.
• Clinic visits – @ 18-22 per day
• Work RVU bonuses
• Sign-on bonus and relocation
• Student loan forgiveness options available
• Full benefits 

Clinical Oversight & Strategy – Colleague Health Medical Director:

• Requires 8 dedicated administrative hours per week
• Oversight of colleague health protocols, screenings, and surveillance programs
• Act as ordering physician for labs
• Provide medical guidance on fitness-for-duty evaluations, return-to-work decisions, and workplace exposures
• Parter with leaders to ensure alignment with regulatory standards (OSHA, IDPH, ADA, CDC, HIPAA, etc.)
• Hourly pay rate for administrative Colleague Health Medical Director hours (in addition to primary care hours)

Workplace Safety & Risk Mitigation

• Collaborate with Safety, HR, and Compliance teams to address occupational health risks
• Support investigations and clinical reviews related to workplace injuries, exposures, or behavioral concerns
• Advise on workplace violence prevention, infectious disease response, and immunization programs

Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as a clinical advisor to Colleague Health staff and system leaders
• Serve as an advisor to Benefits Administration Committee (BAC)
• Participating in multidisciplinary committees focused on safety, wellbeing, and compliance
• Build strong relationships with operational leaders to promote a culture of health and safety

Required Skills

1. Professional Nursing Care

• Age appropriate assessment.
• Data analysis to identify nursing problems.
• Defines individualized patient outcomes.
• Develops an interdisciplinary, individualized plan of care in partnership with patients and families.
• Implements specified interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes, revising the plan when indicated.

1. Supervision and Delegation

• Delegates patient care tasks to LPNs and unlicensed assistive personnel based on job description, individual capability and patient needs.
• Communicates patient status and caregiver performance expectations.
• Appropriately supervises performance of LPNs and unlicensed assistive personnel.
• Directs performance improvement for LPNs and unlicensed assistive personnel.
• Builds teamwork when supervising and delegating to others.

1. Communication and Collaboration

• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills.
• Uses therapeutic communication techniques.
• Demonstrates assertiveness.
• Communicates relevant patient information to other members of the health team.
• Documents patient care according to Memorial policies and procedures. 
• Ensures appropriate implementation of physician’s orders.
• Accesses electronic data to facilitate patient care.
• Creates and maintains a collaborative work environment.
• Participates in interdisciplinary planning and decision making.
• Precepts new nursing employees and/or nursing students.

             4. Quality and Safety

• Identifies and resolves safety risks.
• Participates in continuous quality improvement
• Participates in the periodic review and revision of policies, procedures, and standards of care.
• Complies with all safety policies.

1. Embodies the Memorial Health System Performance Excellence Standards of Safety, Courtesy, Quality, and Efficiency that support our mission, vision and values:

• SAFETY: Prevent Harm – I put safety first in everything I do.  I take action to ensure the safety of others.
• COURTESY: Serve Others – I treat others with dignity and respect.  I project a professional image and positive attitude.
• QUALITY: Improve Outcomes – I continually advance my knowledge, skills and performance.  I work with others to achieve superior results.
• EFFICIENCY: Reduce Waste – I use time and resources wisely.  I prevent defects and delays.

1. Professional Accountability

• Demonstrates ethical decision making.
• Advocates for patients and families.
• Appropriately follows the chain of command.
• Adheres to the Memorial Health System Behavioral Standards.
• Develops annual plan for own professional development.
• Participates in community health initiatives.
• Participates in community organizations.
• Contributes to nursing research activities and applies findings in clinical practice.
• Participates in nurse peer review process.

 7. Performs other related work as required or requested.

 The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job.  Incumbents may be requested to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Recruiter:

Sandy Dunn, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Dunn.Sandy@mhsil.com 

Required Skills

• Assesses physical, psychological and educational needs of patients according to guidelines and age-specific populations.
• Establishes priorities and derives appropriate nursing diagnosis based on assessment data.
• Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
• Develops a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Implements the interventions identified in the plan of care collaborating with healthcare team members, patients, and significant others as appropriate.
• Evaluates the patient’s progress toward an understanding of prescribed treatment and outcomes.
  • Manages the patient care environment by:
  • Evaluating and improving the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
  • Making decisions and acting on behalf of the patient in an ethical manner.
  • Considering factors related to safety, effectiveness and cost in planning and delivering patient care.
• Assumes responsibility for own professional development by:
  • Evaluating self according to Nursing Practice Standards and Regulatory guidelines.
  • Contributing to the professional development of peers.
  • Utilizing research findings in practice.
  • Acquiring and maintaining current knowledge and competency 
• Performs other duties as assigned.  Is authorized to access contrast media.

Required Skills

• CLINICAL JUDGEMENT – Clinical reasoning, which includes decision-making, critical thinking, and a global grasp of the situation, coupled with nursing skills acquired through a process of integrating formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence-based guidelines.
• Demonstrates the ability to assess the full scope of patient needs, using the nursing process on a continuous basis.
• Utilizes past nursing experience to anticipate problems while seeking out multi-disciplinary collaboration with comfort, when necessary.
• Recognizes patterns and trends that may predict the direction of illness.
• CARING PRACTICES:  Nursing activity that create a compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients/families and staff.  Working on another’s behalf and representing the concerns of the patient/family and nursing staff; serving as a moral agent in identifying and helping to resolve ethical and clinical concerns within and outside the clinical setting.
• Promotes safety throughout patient’s and family’s transitions along the healthcare continuum.
• Actively anticipates and monitors patient and family changes, responds appropriately.
• Effectively resolves patient complaints.
• Engages all patients in a personalized, compassionate manner.
• COLLABORATION/SYSTEMS THINKING – Working with others (e.g., patients, families, healthcare providers) in a way that promotes/encourages each person’s contribution toward achieving optimal/realistic patient/family goals.  Involves intra-and inter- disciplinary work with colleagues and community.  Body of knowledge and tools that allow the nurse to manage whatever Environmental and system resources exist for the patient/family and staff, within or across healthcare and non-healthcare systems.
• Consults and coordinates with team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans.
• Actively utilizes evidence-based practice and customer service data to improve caring practices.
• Effectively plans and communicates patient care plans.
• Facilitates active involvement of others in team meetings regarding patient care and/or practice issues.
• Seeks out opportunities to be taught, coached, and mentored.
• Recruits diverse resources when appropriate to optimize patient outcomes.
• Serves as a resource to department and patient/family.
• RESPONSE TO DIVERSITY – The sensitivity to recognize, appreciate and incorporate differences into the provision of care.  Differences may include, but are not limited to, cultural differences, personalities, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values.
• Integrates cultural differences into patient/family care; incorporates appropriate alternative therapies.
• Tailors healthcare culture to meet the diverse needs and strengths of each patient/family. 
• FACILITATION OF LEARNING – The ability to facilitate learning for patients/families, nursing staff, other members of the healthcare team, and community.  Include both formal and informal facilitation of learning.
• Develops and modifies patient/family education programs throughout delivery of care, collaborating and incorporating all healthcare providers’ and educational plans.
• Provides individualized care.
• Evaluates patient’s understanding by observing behavior changes throughout plan of care.
• Sets patient-driven goals for education.
• Work toward achieving Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.
• CLINICAL INQUIRY (INNOVATOR/EVALUATOR) – The ongoing process of questioning and evaluating practice and providing informed practice.  Creating practice changes through research utilization and experimental learning.
• Adapts standards of care to serve particular patient populations.
• Seeks out advice to improve patient care.
• Evaluates current practices based on patient responses, analysis of literature, research, and education.
• Incorporates evidence based practice into care delivery.
• Actively pursues continuing educational opportunities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Skills

1. Manages all department activities related to housekeeping, linen distribution, and compliance with the standards established by regulatory agencies and Taylorville Memorial Hospital.

1. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with other departments to provide a unified approach to patient care.

1. Delivers strong operational performance by executing against regulatory agency standards and programs, continually monitoring operations and completing environmental services quality assessments and necessary action plans to provide optimal environmental services.

1. Manages staff including selection, training, and performance evaluation. Conducts annual performance appraisals.  Initiates corrective action or termination as necessary. 

1. Embodies the Memorial Health System Performance Excellence Standards of Safety, Courtesy, Quality, and Efficiency that support our mission, vision and values:

• SAFETY: Prevent Harm – I put safety first in everything I do.  I take action to ensure the safety of others.
• COURTESY: Serve Others – I treat others with dignity and respect.  I project a professional image and positive attitude.
• QUALITY: Improve Outcomes – I continually advance my knowledge, skills and performance.  I work with others to achieve superior results.
• EFFICIENCY: Reduce Waste – I use time and resources wisely.  I prevent defects and delays.

1. Drives patient satisfaction and maintains client relationships.

1. Ensures compliance with appropriate infection prevention, safety, OSHA Joint Commission and regulatory standards.

1. Drives company vehicle around TMH campus.

1. Makes recommendations to department director for annual budget. Monitors and manages budget variances.

1. Gathers competitive bids for contracted services.

1. Notifies and coordinates contractors in proper time frames to perform contracted services, 7 days a week with general maintenance and construction clean ups.

1. Assists with maintenance and repair of EVS tools and equipment, keeping these in good working order.

1. Supervises, staffs, trains and manages the performance of the Environmental Services Supervisors and/or front line staff, including conducting applicable rounding. Provides performance feedback, corrective action, coaching and other personnel related functions for employees. 

1. Tours and inspects the facility to ensure total quality management requirements in environmental services.

1. Coordinates the activities of the staff to ensure efficient and cost-effective utilization of staff, materials, and equipment.

1. Maintains effective business relationships through the performance of rounding on employees, managerial customers and others.

1. Performs other related work as required or requested.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job.  Incumbents may be requested to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Required Skills

1. Greets customers via phone and determines nature of inquiry. Assists customers with all product/service inquiries along with qualifications for specific services and products.

1. Participate in assigned online and on-the-job training to learn basic medical terminology, product/equipment information, and insurance fundamentals.

2. With assistance from other staff and manager, begins to develop knowledge of various medical products, equipment, supplies, and insurance coverage.

1. Utilizes a variety of software systems to create/maintain electronic customer accounts. Documents and modifies customer, billing, and insurance information as required.

1. Embodies the Memorial Health System Performance Excellence Standards of Safety, Courtesy, Quality, and Efficiency that support our mission, vision and values:

• SAFETY: Prevent Harm – I put safety first in everything I do.  I take action to ensure the safety of others.

• COURTESY: Serve Others – I treat others with dignity and respect.  I project a professional image and positive attitude.

• QUALITY: Improve Outcomes – I continually advance my knowledge, skills and performance.  I work with others to achieve superior results.

• EFFICIENCY: Reduce Waste – I use time and resources wisely.  I prevent defects and delays.

1. Interprets doctors’ orders received via fax for medical equipment; determines and conveys the appropriate selection to the customer based on prescription and current insurance coverage. In the absence of doctor’s order(s), contacts medical providers to obtain dispensing approval and/or clarifies existing orders as needed.

2. Ensure that each customer receives outstanding service by providing a friendly environment, which includes greeting and acknowledging every customer, maintaining solid product knowledge and all other aspects of customer service.

3. Maintain an awareness of all promotions and advertisements.

4. Provides product/equipment descriptions, usage, and coordinates the delivery or shipment.

5. Contacts government payers along with private insurance carriers by phone or through the internet to determine insurance eligibility and verification of coverage for medical equipment and supplies.

6. Prepares and/or receives payment through a credit card machine. Determines the applicable insurance coverage and collects customer co-payments at time services are rendered.

7. Coordinates the delivery of medical equipment, supplies, and associated items at customer request or as business needs dictate (as required by work location).

8. Conducts the necessary research to locate and price specialty items as needed.

9. Identifies and explains situations to customers that require incurring out-of-pocket expense or possible insurance denial. Completes and files the required paperwork associated with these cases.
   
10. Prepares work orders and coordinates their successful implementation with the appropriate internal and external resources.

11. Rotates work settings (to include retail, office, phone, and/or hospital environments) as assigned by management or as otherwise required.

12. Serves as a back-up for others, especially during times of special needs or staff absences.

13. Provides training and educational experiences for lesser-experienced staff.

14. May cross-train in other areas of intake as required covering business needs.

15. Performs other related work as required or requested.

Required Skills

1. Performs all technical skills required at the level of Medical Laboratory Scientist II according to laboratory policy.

1. Operates hospital computer system acquiring necessary patient information to enter, delete or credit the patient account.

1. Follows all established departmental procedures.

1. Participates in continuing education and maintaining a level of skill and knowledge outlined by an accrediting agency.

1. Embodies the Memorial Health System Performance Excellence Standards of Safety, Courtesy, Quality, and Efficiency that support our mission, vision and values:

• SAFETY: Prevent Harm – I put safety first in everything I do.  I take action to ensure the safety of others.
• COURTESY: Serve Others – I treat others with dignity and respect.  I project a professional image and positive attitude.
• QUALITY: Improve Outcomes – I continually advance my knowledge, skills and performance.  I work with others to achieve superior results.
• EFFICIENCY: Reduce Waste – I use time and resources wisely.  I prevent defects and delays.

1. Promotes good communication and interpersonal skills in accordance to laboratory policy.

1. Actively participates in competency assessment process.

1. Performs preventive and corrective maintenance and repairs on lab instrumentation. Calibrate instruments to assure accuracy.

1. Performs analytical and decision-making functions without direct supervision, recognizes unexpected results, and take necessary corrective action.

• Provides technical and analytic interpretive skills for Medical Laboratory Science I, and supports educational activities for the Medical Laboratory Scientist I and peers in these skills.
• Integrates and relates laboratory data generated by various sections in making judgments regarding possible discrepancies.

1. Assists in the preparation and presentation of teaching materials for the Laboratory department

1. May be asked to assist with evaluation and/or development of new test procedures, monitors them for unexpected problems or sources of error.

1. May be asked to assist in researching, reviewing and writing of technical procedures.

1. Assists in orientation/training of new employees as directed.

1. Obtains blood and body fluids from inpatients/outpatients of all ages as requested by authorized personnel.

1. Demonstrates knowledge and theory behind instrumentation. Operates all instrumentation in assigned areas and performs technical procedures.

1. Assures quality and timeliness of patient results, assists with investigation of any problems.

1. Recognizes unexpected results, error and problems with patient tests.

1. Maintains confidentiality of information regarding all patient testing/results as details in hospital policy.

1. Conserves hospital resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to perform job duties.

1. Assures compliance with all local, state, federal and national agencies.

1. Contributes by promptly greeting patients and offering assistance.

1. Reports to work on time and meets acceptable standards for attendance. Must be able to work assigned schedule including holidays and weekends.

1. Performs other duties as assigned or requested.