Occupational Therapist Clinical Specialist (OT)

Inpatient Acute Occupational Therapist, Clinical Specialist

Changing the Future of the Inpatient Acute Care Setting: The Inpatient Acute Occupational Therapy department serves patient populations including: General Medicine, Neurology, Cardiothoracic, Emergency Department, Orthopedics, Trauma, Neurosurgery, ICUs, Transplants including heart, lung, liver, kidney and abdominal, Oncology and much more. We are certified in Joint, Stroke, and VADs. Inpatient Acute Occupational Therapy team members serve on the front lines with opportunities to:

• Collaborate with top providers from around the world to ensure the highest quality of care.
• Work with a highly skilled group of therapists with expertise in a variety of patient populations who thrive on educating and mentoring others
• Specialized mentorship and services OT offered here include: Vision, VAD, Custom Splinting, Pain, Mental Health, Vestibular
• Utilize innovative equipment to maximize safety for the therapists and patients while impacting patients' progress and quality of life

Be Part of a Tight Knit Team: Our units are tight knit, collaborative and supportive as they provide top tier care for patients. The Inpatient Acute Occupational Therapy department in particular allows staff to have mentoring, opportunities to work with skilled interdisciplinary teams to provide best practice, and access to substantial continuing education funds and days to feel supported in and outside of their role. Opportunities to Grow: Allied Health professionals in our Inpatient Acute Occupational Therapy department have access to:

• OT Clinical Specialists' support for mentorship, education and skill enhancement
• Frequent in-services, case studies, and journal clubs for continued learning
• Both department and hospital-wide councils in addition to special projects to maximize quality of care and process improvement
• Clinical Ladder Structure
• Future leadership opportunities

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview

The Occupational Therapist IV, Clinical Specialist is a senior therapist who is fully competent with OT I, II, and III job duties and has a broad clinical skill set across a variety of patient types, ages and diagnoses utilizing and applying innovative and advanced skills and techniques to solve patient care needs in an accurate and efficient manner. The Occupational Therapist IV functions independently and serves as a content expert in particular population(s)/service line(s). The OT IV may be granted administrative time to develop new and modified pathways, processes and interventions in their particular focus area(s), including researching any new/proposed initiatives, understanding the impact on rehab practices, and ensuring rehab staff are aware of, educated on, and aligned with any new process. The OT IV uses electronic and face to face communication including Clinical Alerts, classroom education sessions, and/or arranging for internal/external content experts to provide education to rehab staff to ensure knowledge is obtained by front line staff.

Locations Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Must meet and be proficient in performing all of the essential functions of Occupational Therapy I, II, and III with a more diverse and highly complex patient population as well as the following:
• Leads patient care conferences, communicating with and teaching other care providers.
• Leads Team or Discipline meetings
• Makes recommendations for the development of departmental policies and procedures; leads new program development, for example by developing treatment protocols for new patient populations.
• Develops content for clinical teaching, including the clinical instruction of interns/students, residents, and other staff; prepares and presents at least 3 in-services per year
• Assists in re-evaluating care delivery/programs and completes assignments in the departmental plan to improve services.
• Participates in research or new program development, for example by developing treatment protocols for new patient populations.
• Is aligned with and fully supports departmental and organizational principles, goals and objectives
• Functions as CI for Occupational Therapy students as needed
• Regular participation as Faculty or Mentor Advanced Training Program
• Serves as a primary orientation resource as needed
• Maintains content expertise in focus area, interfacing with unit/service line staff and leadership to keep abreast of policy, practice, protocol, and/or equipment changes
• Assesses the needs of service line/patient population, then assesses the educational needs of the staff and serves as a resource in meeting those needs.
• Acts as a liaison to the Specialty Unit/Service Line staff to which they are assigned
• Functions as Rehab Department's representative at Specialty Quality Meetings or Process Improvement Initiatives

Education Qualifications

• Master's or Doctorate degree required.
• Graduate of an approved Occupational Therapy curriculum required.

Experience Qualifications

• At least five (5) years clinical practice as an Occupational Therapist.
• One certification under the category of AOTA board certification, CA Advanced Practice, or others to be determined on a case by case basis.
• Has lead Department or Interdisciplinary Program/Initiative or Process Improvement Project.
• Possesses and maintains substantial content expertise in the service/unit/population for his/her specialty.
• Successfully completes a Stanford Leadership Development course within the first 12 months of hire.
• Completes at least 50% of required annual continuing education hours in area of specialty.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge and adherence to Code of Ethics and performance standards specific to the clinician's professional organization.
• Knowledge of available equipment and vendors used in assigned area.
• Knowledge of basic business aspects of position, such as utilization management, charging practices and regulatory practice compliance.
• Knowledge of evaluation and treatment methodologies as applied to routine patient care.
• Knowledge of legal issues affecting the clinical practice.
• Knowledge of pathologies and injuries which result in physical, cognitive, and other functional impairments.
• Knowledge of principles, methods, equipment and theory of the practice of clinical specialty.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, clearly, concisely and effectively with patients, families, co-workers, visitors, supervisors and other health professionals.
• Ability to develop and document clearly and accurately treatment goals that are realistic, measurable, appropriate, functionally based and that include patient/family input.
• Ability to develop, implement and adapt treatment programs.
• Ability to evaluate patients and interpret clinical data and make clinical judgments in clinically complex situations.
• Ability to develop, implement and adapt treatment programs to changing clinical status.
• Ability to provide appropriate care and progress treatment based on professional standards of practice, and on the needs of the specific individual, including age and developmental considerations, cultural and psychosocial issues, precautions and medical condition.
• Ability to utilize sound clinical reasoning to determine appropriate patient interventions; demonstrates good safety awareness, judgment and problem analysis and resolution.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with others.
• Ability to clinically supervise, train and evaluate students/interns/residents/fellows.
• Ability to apply advanced clinical skills in treating difficult and complex cases.
• Ability to drive the advancement of care in specialty area through research, collaboration with medical teams, presentations and continued education activities.
• Ability to translate knowledge into clinical practice.
• Ability to represent the Rehab Department in cross-functional improvement initiatives.

Licenses and Certifications

• BLS - Basic Life Support and
• OTR - Reg Occup Therapist

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery. You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity