Occupational Therapist – Acute Care (PRN)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides occupational therapy services to patients who have impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function and health status resulting from injury, disease or other causes under occasional guidance. Actively collaborates with the health care/educational team to meet patient care, outcomes and system improvement objectives. Join Vanderbilt Health – Flexibility Without Compromising Purpose Looking for the flexibility of PRN work while still practicing at the top of your license? Vanderbilt Health is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our acute care team. Whether you're supplementing your current role, maintaining your acute care expertise, or seeking a schedule that better fits your lifestyle, this opportunity offers the chance to make a meaningful impact while working alongside some of the region's most respected rehabilitation and medical professionals. Be part of an organization redefining what's possible in healthcare. Vanderbilt Health is home to the nation's largest transplant center by volume and continues to set records for life-saving care and clinical innovation. At Vanderbilt Health, we believe healthcare is personal. Our rehabilitation professionals are empowered to provide individualized, evidence-based care that puts patients before productivity metrics. Here, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across diverse patient populations while helping patients regain independence during some of the most important moments of their recovery.

Requirements

Licensed Occupational Therapist
Acute care experience strongly preferred
Strong clinical reasoning and patient advocacy skills
Ability to work effectively within an interdisciplinary care team
Commitment to delivering compassionate, patient-centered care
Rehab Therapist Patient Documentation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in documentation practices. Documents in the appropriate templates and utilizes only approved abbreviations within patient documentation. Meets institutional standards for quality and timeliness of documentation.
Physical/Occupational Therapist Patient Education (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in communicating functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process. Considers the communication needs/level of understanding of audience and may share appropriate information/literature. May supervise, educate and train students from professional programs of physical therapy, occupational therapy and athletic training.
Treatment Planning & Goal Setting (Novice): Demonstrates sufficient proficiency in developing a plan of care that incorporates treatment interventions focused on meeting objective goals. Develops and documents patient focused short and long term goals that are functional and measurable. Identifies the need for and referral to other services, as needed.
Treatment Implementation (Fundamental Awareness): Demonstrates proficiency in providing treatment consistent with physician prescription and established plan of care. Able to modify treatment plan as needed to demonstrate provision of skilled therapy services including progression of treatment throughout course of care, and revision of treatment interventions of goals not met. May supervise and direct certified athletic trainers (PT only), physical therapist / occupational therapist assistants, technicians and volunteers and students. Selects and follows correct protocol for care and utilize evidence based treatments.
Rehabilitation Therapist Patient Evaluation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in evaluating patients with physical deficits including impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function by obtaining information pertinent to the assessment and administering and scoring standardized tests and objective measures of deficit areas. Selects appropriate measures and performs a functional assessment to document patient's status requiring skilled therapy. Interprets the results of the assessment and their significance to the patient, family, referring physician and other members of the health care team.
LIC-Occupational Therapy License - Licensure-Others
Relevant Work Experience
1 year
Bachelor's

Nice To Haves

Acute care experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Provide evidence-based occupational therapy evaluations and interventions across a variety of inpatient units, including intensive care and specialty care settings.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized treatment plans.
Educate patients and caregivers on adaptive strategies, safety awareness, and functional independence.
Assess patient progress and make clinical recommendations to support safe discharge planning.
Document evaluations, treatments, and outcomes in accordance with hospital and regulatory standards.
Contribute to a culture of learning, collaboration, and clinical excellence.
Analyzes comprehensive information from formal and informal assessment that is pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine a rehabilitation treatment diagnosis.
Collaborates with stakeholders in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the rehabilitation continuum.
Applies appropriate, evidence-based interventions to ensure effective outcomes and re-evaluates performance to assess patient's progress towards goals.
Employs strategies to promote successful return to home, community, and school/vocational environments.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.