Occupational Therapist

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Occupational Therapist, Neurological Rehabilitation

The Keiser Clinic · Chelsea, Michigan · Full-time, salaried

Join a small clinic that has no billable units, no productivity metrics, and no insurance write-ups.

The Keiser Clinic is a privately owned, small-team rehabilitation clinic in Chelsea, Michigan. We work outside the hospital and insurance hamster wheel, so our days are built around our patients and not around billing codes.

Our patients fly in from across the country and stay with us for 2 to 4 weeks at a time. They live with chronic neurological conditions that have taken their daily lives away from them, and many can no longer get through a normal day. They have exhausted every other option, and the traditional insurance-driven system never gave them the quality time with a doctor that they needed. We're their last stop, and we take that seriously.

The care team One-on-one time with a doctor The GyroStim Hands-on neck care Treatment space Video-oculography testing Transcranial Doppler

What you'll do

• Administer rehabilitation protocols and exercises designed around each patient's test results and the daily activities they want to get back to
• Run our specialized neurological equipment, including the GyroStim
• Provide careful supervision for highly sensitive patients whose bodies can crash when they do too much
• Help patients pace their daily activities so they can take on more of their day without crashing
• Work with patients diagnosed with POTS, ME/CFS, Long COVID, post-concussion syndrome, and other debilitating conditions
• Write customized home programs that patients take with them to continue their rehab after they leave
• Follow up with patients virtually by email after they go home, answer their questions, and keep their rehab moving
• Sit in daily case rounds with our entire team, where we review every patient we saw that day

How we work

Our patients spend hours each day with us in our intensive program, and we currently see fewer than 20 patients per week. That's intentional, because it gives every patient the time their case deserves.

We're growing the team so we can get closer to our goal of helping 10,000 patients over the next 10 years reclaim their lives from bedridden and housebound states.

What you'll learn

Come with your own background and specialty, and the desire to learn ours. We'll train you extensively, with hands-on mentorship from our entire team, in brain-first autonomic and neurological rehabilitation. You'll learn:

• Vestibular and oculomotor rehabilitation
• Visual-spatial and sensory processing retraining
• Neuromuscular re-education, including for hypermobile patients
• Exercise pacing guided by how each patient's autonomic system and cerebral blood flow respond
• How the brain, the body's regulation systems, and movement work together

You'll probably love it if

• You have a real interest in vestibular rehab, visual-spatial work, and neurology.
• You love hands-on care and want extended one-on-one time with each patient, instead of a 30-minute visit in a revolving door.
• You want a job with no billable units, productivity metrics, or insurance write-ups.
• You can take a patient's symptoms seriously after they've been told it was only anxiety.
• You're always researching because you care about your patients' lives, and you want to bring new ideas into the clinic.

It's probably not for you if

• You prefer to follow one set protocol and aren't looking to try new ideas.
• You find it hard to think on your feet.

A welcoming place to land

We're in Chelsea, Michigan, a short drive from Ann Arbor. If you live nearby, we'd love to meet you. If you'd relocate for the right clinic, we want to hear from you too. We also welcome independent practice owners who are ready to step away from owning a practice and get back to treating patients.

Why work with us

• A mission that matters: helping people who have run out of options get their lives back
• Personal growth, with hands-on training and mentorship in a specialty few clinicians ever get to learn
• A small clinic outside the hospital system, with real time for every patient
• Regular, predictable hours
• Comprehensive retirement benefits after one year of employment
• Time off
• Located at 400 N Main St, Suite A, Chelsea, MI 48118