Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) | Home Health Rehabilitation
About The Position
As a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) with Home Health Care, Inc., you will work with patients inside their homes, addressing the everyday challenges that hinder their recovery. You will observe, adapt, teach, encourage, and problem-solve to help patients accomplish tasks they may have taken for granted before an illness, injury, hospitalization, or surgery. This role involves improving strength, coordination, teaching new task completion methods, introducing adaptive equipment, and identifying environmental obstacles. Your treatment will have an immediate test: does it work in real life? You will work one-on-one with patients on activities they need to perform between visits, such as getting dressed, bathing, grooming, improving upper-extremity strength, preparing meals, using adaptive equipment, developing safer routines, improving fine motor skills, conserving energy, and adapting after neurological events or physical decline, all within their actual home environment.
Requirements
- Active Minnesota Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) license
- Strong understanding of ADLs and functional rehabilitation
- Excellent patient and caregiver communication
- Creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to independently manage a field-based schedule
- Confidence providing one-on-one care in patients' homes
- Strong collaboration with supervising Occupational Therapists
- Ability to recognize and communicate changes in patient status
- Valid driver's license and reliable transportation
Nice To Haves
- Experience in Skilled nursing
- Experience in TCU
- Experience in Inpatient rehabilitation
- Experience in Outpatient therapy
- Experience in Assisted living
- Experience in Neurological rehabilitation
- Experience in Orthopedics
- Experience in Other Occupational Therapy environments
Responsibilities
- Provide one-on-one Occupational Therapy treatments in patients' homes
- Carry out individualized treatment plans established by the OT
- Address activities of daily living and functional routines
- Provide therapeutic activities and exercises
- Work on upper-extremity function, coordination, and functional mobility
- Reinforce home exercise programs
- Teach adaptive techniques and compensatory strategies
- Educate patients and caregivers on safety
- Reinforce appropriate use of adaptive equipment
- Monitor patient response and progress
- Identify changes and communicate them to the supervising Occupational Therapist
- Collaborate with PT, nursing, SLP, physicians, and other interdisciplinary clinicians
- Complete timely and accurate clinical documentation
Benefits
- Mileage reimbursement between patient visits
- Free access to our MedBridge Education Hub for continuing education and professional development
- Licensure reimbursement
- Annual scrub reimbursement
- Cell phone reimbursement for eligible clinicians
- Comprehensive medical coverage
- Dental and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- PTO
- Paid holidays
- 401(k)
- Structured orientation and clinical support
- Opportunities for continued growth throughout our family of healthcare companies
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
