Occupational Therapist IP

Occupational Therapist

The primary purpose of an Occupational Therapist is to organize and conduct prescribed occupational therapy programs to facilitate rehabilitation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce, and enhance performance; facilitates the learning of those skills and functions essential for adaptation and productivity, diminish or correct pathology and to promote and maintain health.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Examines, evaluates, tests, and administers treatments of patients with physical disabilities, ADL limitations, acute/chronic disorders which may include but not limited to neurological, musculoskeletal, wound, motor skills, sensory integration and/or social, psychological, cognitive skill deficits.
• Supervises and co-signs plans of care implemented and rendered by the occupational therapist assistant. Ensure the understanding from the occupational therapist assistant of goals to be expected and changes to the plan of care during the course of treatment.
• Ensures understanding with the patient, family, referring doctors and other professionals regarding progress, problems, home programs, and other issues related to the therapeutic process.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates therapeutic occupational therapy programs and services that promotes occupational therapy.
• Accurately maintains records of work performed to ensure proper documentation, billing, scheduled appointments and hours worked in compliance of organizational, state, and federal regulations and to ensure patient continuity of care and patient satisfaction.
• Maintains equipment and supplies used as part of the therapeutic process.
• Practices safety, environmental, and/or infection control methods.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
• Continues professional growth by attending educational meetings, workshops, visiting related facilities, and reading professional literature as regulated by governing boards, and licensure requirements.
• Presents information to immediate work group via in-service no later than 90 days after attending or completing course in person or online.
• Attends all staff, site, project team, and organizational update meetings in person or online when working to ensure communication of departmental and organizational updates and changes.
• Mentors/clinically instructs observation, shadowing and clinical education students.
• Inpatient specific: a) Seeks to avg. 2.0 units per patient visit and b) Achieves 75% productivity.
• Outpatient specific: a) Participates in community activities that promote the rehabilitation department, b) Participates in provider office visits, c) Seeks to avg. 3.0 units per patient visit and d) Achieves no less than 85% productivity and no more than 20% cancellation/no show rate.

Required Qualifications:

• Licensed as an Occupational Therapist in the state of Ohio
• CPR Certification within 90 days
• A valid driver's license is required (if you do not have a valid Ohio driver's license you must obtain one within 30 days of your residency in the state). You must also meet BVHS's company fleet policy and insurance company requirements, and any other requirements that may be required to operate a vehicle.
• Positive service-oriented interpersonal and communication skills required.
• Individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in their assigned department. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient status. Must be able to interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to their age-specific needs and to provide the care needed as described in the area's policies and procedures.

Physical Demands:

General: Frequently pushes patients in wheelchairs (<=100-350+) into and out of rooms/treatment area, adjusts patient's position for bed, table, standing and/or sitting treatments. Assists patients to adjust extremities or re-position body. May apply modalities, e.g. H.P., ultrasound, EGS. Frequently travels within building to locate patients on units, in waiting rooms or other clinical areas to treat, or to assist in-patient transport. Frequently transports patient lists, treatment materials, and office supplies (1-5 lbs.). Frequently pushes/pulls file and storage cabinet drawers to retrieve and return materials. Frequently changes body position from sit-stand or stand-sit during treatment, documentation, and general office activities. Occasionally provides steadying or assistance to ambulatory patients for standing or walking within the department or in hallways. Lifts/adjusts patient's seated in wheelchair with or without assistance.

Fine Motor Coordination: Frequently types to document patient care. Frequently demonstrates exercises, therapeutic techniques and assists patient during treatment. Frequently uses fine motor skills during evaluation and treatment (e.g., resistance exercises, palpation of muscle function, deep muscle massage, or goniometric measurements to assess patient function.)

Verbal Expression: Frequently presents treatment verbally for evaluation and treatment tasks. Presents information verbally to other professionals in formal and informal meetings, and in telephone consultations.

Hearing: Relies upon hearing to discern speech and voice impairments, and to determine adequacy of spoken language and cognitive responses during evaluation and treatment activities. Hearing also involved in receiving verbal information from other professionals.

Vision: Frequently observes patient visually to assess movements, adequacy of gestures. Frequently must read reports and other written materials from other professionals.

Environmental Factors: The practice of physical therapy involves occasional risk of infection (e.g., MRSA, hepatitis, other blood-borne pathogens) which requires the use of safety precautions such as surgical masks, gowns, gloves and special hand-washing procedures. Materials and treatment surfaces may also require special handling.

***This position is classified "at risk" for possible occupational exposure to blood borne pathogens (HBV, HIV, etc.)