Occupational Therapist

Job Description

Job Description

Occupational Therapist
Job Summary:
A registered professional who provides occupational therapy to patients of all age groups. Plans, implements, and evaluates patient
care plans to restore or maintain patient well-being. Evaluates occupational roles and occupational performance of patients with
physical, psycho-social and/or cognitive impairments. Provides interventions for deficits and elicits responses. Participates in the
coordination of care.

Job Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy.
Licensure: Current state license as an occupational therapist by the California Board of Occupational Therapy. Current driver’s license.

Experience: One year of experience as an occupational therapist preferred.
Skills: Therapy skills as defined as generally accepted standards of practice. Good interpersonal skills. Proof of current

CPR certification. Knowledge of durable medical equipment.
Transportation: Reliable transportation and valid auto liability insurance.
Environmental and Working Conditions:
Works in a patients’ homes in various conditions; possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and infectious diseases; ability to work a flexible schedule; ability to travel locally; some exposure to unpleasant weather.
Physical and Mental Effort: Ability to do heavy lifting, bending, pulling, pushing, and standing. Prolonged standing and walking required. Requires working under some stressful conditions to meet deadlines and patient needs, and to meet patient and family individualized psychosocial needs. Requires hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity.
Essential Functions: Evaluation: Performs ongoing clinical assessments, including OASIS assessments at appropriate time points to identify patient needs and determine level of functioning, and appropriateness of the patient for home health.

Evaluates the patient’s occupational performance in the areas of self-care, work, leisure, and rest. Assesses sensory-
motor neuromuscular, psychosocial, and cognitive-perceptual components of occupational behavior. Assesses physical, social, and cultural components of the patient’s occupational environment.
Assesses and facilitates through direct therapeutic intervention the patient’s ROM, strength, coordination, need for and
use of adaptive equipment and environmental modifications, functional mobility, and safety issues as related to the
patient’s ADL performance needs. Evaluates the home environment and makes appropriate recommendations.
Fabricates and maintains adaptive equipment and hand splints.
Develops and evaluates the plan of care in partnership with the patient, representative, and caregiver(s). Documents,
prepares, revises, and completes clinical notes, phone orders, and other clinical record documentation on a continuous
basis and in a timely manner.
Accepts clinical assignments that are consistent with education and competence to care for patients. Provides services
that are ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care, including patient, caregiver, and family counseling
and patient and caregiver education. Supervises, advises, and instructs other personnel, when appropriate, in the
patient’s therapy program.
Applies concepts of infection control and standard precautions in coordinating and performing patient care activities to
prevent contamination and transmission of disease.
Uses effective interpersonal relations and communication skills. Facilitates the use of these skills by other team
members to achieve desirable outcomes.
Communicates with all physicians involved in the plan of care and other healthcare practitioners related to the current
plan of care.
Participates in the Agency’s QAPI program.
Participates in agency sponsored in-service training.

Meets mandatory continuing education requirements of the Agency and the licensing board.
Essential Functions: Evaluation:
Demonstrates commitment, professional growth, and competency.
Promotes the Agency philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.