Occupational Therapist

Occupational Therapist Acute Care/Float

Join Team Tidelands and help people live better lives through better health!

Occupational Therapist Acute Care/Float Are you passionate about quality and committed to excellence? Consider joining our Tidelands Health team. As our region's largest health care provider, we are also one of our area's largest employers. More than 2,500 team members at more than 70 Tidelands Health locations bring our healing mission to life each day.

A Brief Overview Responsible for providing a full range of therapeutic services including assessment, treatment planning and therapeutic interventions in an interdisciplinary environment consistent with the position's qualification, professional practices, and ethical standards. An Occupational therapist (OT) must be able to evaluate a patient's condition and devise a customized Occupational rehabilitation and treatment plan. The OTs' goal is to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability, to maximize quality of life in an acute care setting. The Occupational therapist shall also demonstrate accountability for the contribution to program development, quality improvement, problem solving, and productivity enhancement in a flexible interdisciplinary fashion. The employee may have job functions where they will handle and deliver medications based on the requirements of their job in the assigned work facility. The employee will complete other duties as assigned.

What you will do

• Review physician's referral (prescription), patient's condition, medical history, and submitted medical records to determine Occupational therapy treatment required. Plans and prepares written treatment program based on evaluation of patient and incorporate proper interventions that can help patients better perform everyday tasks, decrease pain, ambulation, and improve strength and mobility
• Evaluate patients' functional ability through various standardized tests, measures patient's strength, motor development, sensory perception, functional capacity, and level of independence with daily activities, and records findings to develop treatment programs
• Develop a treatment plan for patients with specific goals and tasks
• Administer treatments involving application of Occupational agents, such as cold packs, contrast baths, moist packs, ultraviolet and infrared lamps, Iontophoresis, electrical stimulation, and ultrasound machines
• Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjusts treatments to achieve maximum benefit
• Record treatment, responses, and progress in the patient's electronic medical record and prepare reports as indicated by licensure, the provider, and or insurance recommendations
• Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home
• Complete documentation per clinical / department guidelines and meets expectations of monthly department chart audits
• Complete required orientation as directed by facility
• Achieves the established average monthly patient care productivity metric

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Master's Degree Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to utilize therapy equipment in an outpatient rehabilitation setting to provide treatment and procedures
• Punctual and dependent for assigned/confirmed shifts
• Ability to respect cultural and religious practices of patients

Licenses and Certifications

• Occupational Therapist Registered/Licensed - South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Required
• Basic Life Support Certified - American Heart Association within 30 Days Required

Physical Demand Medium-Heavy Physical DemandThe intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a contract for employment nor a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description. Tidelands Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Tidelands Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Tidelands Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender, genetic information, familial status, or any other legally protected status.