Lymphedema Specialist (PT or OT)

Job Description

Licensed-Physical Therapist or Licensed-Occupational Therapist-FT

At Mercy Hospital Ada, every connection mattersthe relationships you build with patients play a key role in their healing and confidence. If you are a certified, compassionate clinician dedicated to improving quality of life through hands-on, personalized care, we welcome you to join our team.

Mercy Hospital Ada, Oklahoma is seeking a Lymphedema Specialist to join our therapy team and provide expert care to patients managing lymphedema and related conditions. In this specialized role, you will assess, develop, and implement individualized treatment plans, utilizing techniques such as manual lymphatic drainage, compression therapy, and patient education to support long-term health and mobility.

Job Responsibilities:

• Comprehends and interprets medical prescriptions and medical history for physical or occupational therapy, with a specialized focus on lymphedema diagnoses. Applies accepted principles, methods, and procedures of measurement, prediction, and evaluation tests and measures, to assess patient's strengths and limitations and assist patient to achieve objective short- and long-term goals. Administers tests, measures, objective, and functional assessment requiring certified lymphedema skilled competencies. Applies and demonstrates knowledge of side effects, and complications related to lymphedema diagnoses and other related co-morbidities. Create plan of care according to evaluation results.
• Administers patient specific occupational or physical therapy treatment, including but not limited to Complete Decongestive Therapy including multilayer bandaging, manual lymph drainage, and compression garment section and application. Modifies treatment plans as needed based on complex problem solving, patient specific need, and use of existing evidence-based information.
• Maintains accurate records of each patient's treatment, assessment findings, and progress according to defined service delivery standards. Maintains all necessary records required to meet criteria established by reimbursement and regulatory agencies.
• Provide patient and/or caregiver education and training for home management program, with skillful reassessment and adjustments as needed for chronic condition management.
• Provide appropriate home exercise plans and recommendations for modifications for functional abilities.
• Advocacy and care coordination for patients to facilitate accessibility to services and resources and promote health equity of the lymphedema population. Must professionally communicate complex information to internal and external stakeholders, providers and leadership to serve advice or guidance on application of knowledge
• Serves as a UHS subject expert with advanced knowledge of lymphedema and complete decongestive therapy and can serve as an educator and advocate for the population.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with patients, families/caregivers, providers, staff, and others involved in multi-disciplinary care of patients to ensure effective long-term management of lymphedema related issues.
• Collaborative efforts with vendors to achieve compression garment coverage or financial funding resources
• Professional participation and collaboration in internal lymphedema clinic assignments and projects; including program quality improvement and performance improvement.
• Integration of broad theoretical knowledge of rehabilitation and the specialized field of lymphedema and the interrelationships within the domain of health care delivery
• Formulation and execution of individualized patient care and public health efforts

Position Qualifications:

• Certification in Lymphedema Therapy preferred- OR willing to become certified within six months of hire date
• Licensed as an occupational or physical therapist
• CPR certified
• Master's or Doctorate Degree
• Previous clinical experience in lymphedema therapy
• Previous clinical experience in hospital-based inpatient services and/or outpatient therapy services

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EEOC Statement

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.