Occupational Therapist

Occupational Therapist

Occupational Therapist Responsibilities:

• Evaluates, plans, directs, and administers programs of Occupational Therapy (OT) upon referral by the physician.
• Plans and conducts OT programs to restore function, prevent disability, and help patients reach their maximum level of independence.
• Performs supervisory duties.
• Directs and supervises activities of OT assistants, OT technicians, students, and volunteers involved in administering care to patients and assists with orienting new and rotating staff.
• Evaluates patients and establishes appropriate patient care plans to include necessary modalities, procedures, exercise programs, and patient education as warranted by the patient's diagnosis and condition.
• Gathers and interprets appropriate data from the medical record, physician reports, patient, and/or family as evidenced by documentation and identifies the need for and utilizes appropriate assistive and orthotic devices.
• Documents evaluations, tests, progress notes, daily treatment notes, attendance records, patient/family education, outcomes, discharge notes, and charges.
• Re-evaluates patients as needed, modifying goals and treatment as patient's status changes.
• Communicates patient's evaluation and subsequent progress to the physician, referral sources, and other clinical staff and coordinates patient's schedule, treatment programs, and discharge planning and recommends solutions to patient care problems.
• Provides and documents patient and family education in regard to deficits, progress toward goals, and therapeutic techniques, with individualized instruction for a home program including equipment use.
• Job duties sometimes require climbing stairs, kneeling, twisting, bending; on occasion, crouching, crawling, and reaching overhead.

Qualifications:

• Hearing (corrected) is adequate for oral/aural communication.
• Intelligible speech and adequate language/cognitive skills to perform job duties.
• Bachelor's Degree in OT from an accredited OT program is required.
• MI license for OT required.
• BLS is required per policy guidelines.