What are the responsibilities and job description for the Home Therapies Program Director position at Fresenius Medical Care?
About the Role
Fresenius Medical Care is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Clinical Operations Manager Registered Nurse to lead our Home Therapies programs. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for managing patient care in home therapies programs while maintaining cost-effective clinical operations.
As a Clinical Operations Manager Registered Nurse, you will provide direction and guidance to the interdisciplinary team providing care to Home Therapies patients to ensure that the highest standard of care is provided. You will also collaborate with the Business Unit management team to grow the assigned Home Therapies programs.
Key Responsibilities
- Program Management: Manage the operations of multiple Home Therapies programs with direct responsibility for results, including growth, patient retention, program costs, operational methods, scheduling, and staffing.
- Strategic Planning: Direct activities related to the area's strategic plans, goals, and objectives ensuring alignment with those of the region, division, and company.
- Quality Assurance: Implement quality goals and action plans to achieve quality standards.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with operations leaders, market development, in-center leadership, and patient education and quality teams to promote home therapies growth in assigned programs.
- Financial Management: Responsible for profit and loss management of the assigned program including optimal performance of program operations to achieve or exceed budgets and key performance indicators.
- Patient Care: Directs and manages all aspects of patient care for Home Therapies patients in assigned programs from admission through discharge of the patient.
- Staff Leadership: Provides direction, guidance, and support to staff members to ensure the safe and effective delivery of home therapy support care to patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
- Regulatory Compliance: Oversees patient and caregiver readiness and ability to perform dialysis treatments at home and assesses environment for suitability in the ongoing delivery of home dialysis therapy.
- Employee Development: Ensures competency of staff in the operation of all home dialysis therapy-related equipment.
- Operations Support: Responsible for management of program supplies, equipment tracking, and ensures that orders are replenished in a consistent and timely manner.
- Data Management: Directs data entry related activities such as patient admission, regulatory reporting, billing, physician orders, lab results, vital signs, patient status, and any other treatment-related data into systems.
- Regulatory Affairs: Ensures regulatory, compliance, and audit activities are accomplished on time.
- Leadership Development: Orients and supports all new home therapies staff and provides ongoing education.
- Human Resources: Responsible for hiring, coaching, and counseling employees, including performance reviews, disciplinary action, and terminations.
- Performance Management: Provides leadership, coaching, and development plans for all direct reports to maintain an engaged and productive workforce.
- Other Duties: Performs other related duties as assigned.
Additonal Responsibilities May Include:
The work environment is characteristic of a health care facility with air temperature control and moderate noise levels.
The position provides direct patient care that regularly involves heavy lifting and moving of patients and assisting with ambulation.
The employee may occasionally be required to move machines and equipment of up to 200 lbs.
This position requires frequent, prolonged periods of standing and/or walking and the employee must be able to bend over.
Travel required between assigned facilities and various locations within the region up to 25% of the time.
