Occupational Therapist III EX

University of California, San Francisco•Oakland, CA

34d

About The Position

The Senior Staff Therapist, Occupational Therapist III, reports to the Clinical Supervisor, Occupational Therapy and provides both direct and indirect patient care services. The Senior Therapist works primarily with adult and geriatric patients from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, although pediatric and adolescent patients may also be treated. The Senior Therapist demonstrates a solid knowledge base within a wide range of diagnoses including general medicine, orthopedics, neurology, and cardiopulmonary in the adult and/or pediatric setting. Under general supervision and within a specific therapy discipline, the Senior Therapist independently performs complex patient evaluations and therapeutic interventions; serves as a mentor to staff and consultant to other medical professionals in patient evaluations, therapeutic intervention planning or intervention requiring discipline specific skills. The Senior Therapist makes recommendations in patient care procedures, protocols or programs related to the discipline specific areas, and instructs therapists and other medical professionals in the theory, application and/or performance of discipline specific skills. While performing job duties, the Senior Therapist may also supervise support personnel as allowed by discipline specific State Practice Acts including Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants and Rehabilitation Aides as well as O.T. and C.O.T.A. students. The Senior Therapist actively participates in departmental and organizational programs, including performance improvement activities, clinical education programs, and inservices and staff development activities.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years of general patient care experience, with a minimum of 1 year in an acute care setting within the past 5 years.
Minimum of 40 hours of professional development activities, with 50% consisting of continuing education credits (CEUs) or relevant academic coursework.
Prior experience as a clinical preceptor and experience teaching a wide variety of audiences.
Demonstrated ability to consistently meet the clinical caseload requirements of a staff-level therapist.
Ability to work a minimum of 32 hours and 4 days per week.
Ability to communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing.
Ability to recognize signs of distress.
Possession of CPR certification.
Basic computer skills, including word processing and online communication.
Proven ability to mentor professional behaviors, including interpersonal skills, time management, problem-solving, and self-initiation.
Flexibility to orient and work at all UCSF Medical Center locations.
Possession of licensure as an Occupational Therapist by the Occupational Therapy Board of California.

Nice To Haves

Prior professional clinical experience in an academic medical center environment.
Prior experience working on an interdisciplinary healthcare provider team.
Ability to work full time, 5 days per week.
Possession of a graduate degree or certificate in Occupational Therapy from an accredited professional educational program.

Responsibilities

Performs occupational therapy evaluations on referral by a licensed physician or dentist and administers various orthopedic, neurological, cognitive, visual assessment, visual-perceptual-motor , psychosocial, ADL, and developmental tests to determine a patient’s functional and psychosocial limitations.
Establishes short and long term therapeutic intervention goals based on the results of the evaluation and in consultation with the referring practitioner.
Develops a therapeutic intervention plan based on results of the evaluation and established goals. Makes appropriate changes in therapeutic intervention programs according to the patient's progress and performance.
Administers direct patient care, utilizing the full range of occupational therapy techniques as outlined in the Series Concept.
Delegates and supervises any part of a patient's therapeutic intervention which can be legally and appropriately done by support staff.
Completes all aspects of discharge planning as appropriate.
Prepares, maintains and transmits accurate patient care records as required including services rendered, progress notes, discharge notes and third party payer reports (e.g. CCS, Medicare, Medi-Cal forms).
Communicates effectively and efficiently with patients, families, department staff, managers and other hospital personnel.
Reports on patients' progress at various rounds, clinics and case conferences as indicated.
Demonstrates effective time management skills.
Participates in staff inservice education program, staff and area meetings.
Participates in orientation and training of new staff.
Participates in and provides programs to the community and other hospital departments.
Participates in clinical instruction of affiliating occupational therapy students and in departmental educational activities related to other health care students (e.g. nursing, medical and pre-occupational therapy).
Seeks appropriate opportunities for ongoing education at a minimum of 40 hours of coursework annually. This can be demonstrated by attendance at continuing education courses, Grand Rounds, independent reading, professional activities, campus lectures and mentoring.
Participates in department quality assurance and performance improvement activities.
Contributes to the goals of the department by participating in special projects, committees, etc.
Represents the department as a professional.