Occupational Therapist OT Home Health

AdventHealth • Tavares, FL

280d

About The Position

The Home Health Occupational Therapy (OT) Care Manager is a professional therapist who coordinates and directs the home care patient's services based on individual patient needs. The OT Care Manager is responsible for independent management of the Home Health patient population requiring the use of advanced assessment, teaching and decision-making skills. The OT is responsible for ensuring that appropriate referrals to other services are made, interdisciplinary conferencing takes place regularly, and appropriate documentation is completed. Relevant knowledge and experience is consistently applied to new patient populations. The OT Care Manager cares for a caseload of home health patients requiring occupational therapy as the primary service by evaluating the patient for appropriateness of home health and developing the home care plan in conjunction with the physician. S/he educates patients, families, caregivers and community providers to safely perform care. S/he provides follow up by evaluating effectiveness of the home care plan, and monitoring patient/family's response to the plan to achieve patient/family goals and top decile outcomes. The OT Care Manager also identifies performance improvement and home health standard of care initiatives and assists to design or implement programs to address needed changes.

Requirements

• Minimum of one-year relevant clinical occupational therapy experience.
• Master's degree in Occupational Therapy.
• Current Occupational Therapy License in State of Practice.
• Valid Driver's License and current car insurance.
• Active American Heart Association BLS.

Nice To Haves

• Recent, relevant experience in a Medicare-certified home health agency as a case-manager.
• Home Health Case-Manager Certification COS-C.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and directs the care of a caseload of home patients requiring occupational therapy as the primary skill.
• Provides comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation for that caseload as the primary Care Manager.
• Performs an evaluation, assessing function using a method which objectively measures activities of daily living.
• Sets priorities of home care caseload adapting to the changing needs of the home care patients and families.
• Optimizes schedule daily to support productivity, efficiency and maintain best practice visit utilization.
• Assesses physical, functional, psychosocial, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, cultural, cognitive status and discharge planning needs of the home care patient.
• Assesses the home environment for safety, infection control, and community resource needs.
• Reviews patient history and physical, diagnostics and laboratory data.
• Reports abnormal items and results to the physician as appropriate and reviews with patient family.
• Accurately and timely documents these assessments.
• Utilizing assessment data, formulates a patient specific plan of care along with the patient, family and physician.
• Establishes individualized, realistic, measurable patient centered goals in consultation with the patient, family and other health care providers.
• Implements the plan of care through direct patient care, coordination, delegation and supervision of the activities of the health care team.
• Provides care based on physician's orders, in compliance with policies and procedures, standards of care, and regulatory requirements.
• Selects, applies or modifies skilled intervention consistent with training and scope of practice.
• Assesses patient response to interventions and performs reassessments as required.
• Delegates appropriately and provides supervision in the provision of care to patients by other licensed staff and other personnel.
• Promotes continuity of care by accurately and completely communicating to other caregivers the status of patient for whom care is provided.
• Provides skilled care, preventative rehabilitative procedures, and prescribed treatments with a variety of patient populations.
• Periodically reassess the patient every 30 days.
• Uses motivational interviewing/health coaching techniques to engage key stakeholders in the management of care.
• Evaluates patient's and family's responses to care and teaching and effectiveness of teaching.
• Ensures that the home care patient and family demonstrate the knowledge and abilities regarding home care rights and responsibilities.
• Initiates change in the care plan as needed.
• Informs the physician, clinical manager, and other appropriate members of the health care team of changes in the patient's condition and needs.
• Facilitates and coordinates interdisciplinary care conferences with groups of complex patients.
• Maintains an updated clinical record on each patient at all times.
• Provides care based on the best evidence available and may participate in research activities within clinical practice.
• Interacts and participates in the education, role development, and orientation of agency personnel.
• Takes ownership to optimize agency performance through active involvement in quality improvement activities.

Benefits

• Up to $10,000 Sign-on Bonus.
• Benefits from Day One.
• Paid Days Off from Day One.
• Career Development.
• Whole Person Wellbeing Resources.
• Mental Health Resources and Support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Master's degree