Occupational Therapist (OT) in Adult Acute Care - Full-time

UVA Health System•Newcomb Hall, VA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

These roles focus on helping patients recover from injuries, illnesses, or surgeries and improve their physical, emotional, and functional well-being. Involves assessing, planning, and providing therapeutic interventions to enhance patients' abilities to perform daily activities and achieve their rehabilitation goals. These roles are responsible for helping patients to develop, recover, or maintain skills needed for daily living and working, enabling patients to perform every day activities that are important to their independence, health and well-being. Occupational therapists assess patient needs and develop individualized treatment plans. Individual contributors with responsibility in a clinical discipline or specialty. Typically involves diagnosing, treating, and caring for patients, and often include face-to-face interactions with patients. May also spend some time designing and implementing clinical programs, policies, and services using specialized knowledge and skills. Specialty license or certification required which is acquired through advanced education, training and/or experience. This career stream will be most commonly applied to patient care and/or scientific/laboratory technologist jobs. Entry-level position typically requiring little to no prior knowledge or experience and require vocational or technical education. Work is routine or follows standard procedures. Work is closely supervised. Communicates information that requires little explanation or interpretation

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Therapy required.
Experience: None.
Licensure: Licensed to practice in Occupational Therapy in the Commonwealth of Virginia. New grads must be licensed within 6 months of hire.
American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.