Occupational Therapist – Pediatric Outpatient Therapy (OTR/L)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking an experienced Pediatric Occupational Therapist to provide high-quality outpatient therapy services for children with upper extremity and developmental-related conditions at our One Hundred Oaks location. The ideal candidate will have experience in pediatric occupational therapy. VUMC is a community of individuals dedicated to advancing health and wellness through patient care, education, and research, fostering an environment where everyone can thrive and their uniqueness is celebrated. This role involves providing occupational therapy services to patients with various impairments and functional limitations under occasional guidance, collaborating with the healthcare team to achieve patient care outcomes and system improvement objectives.

Requirements

Active Tennessee Occupational Therapist (OTR/L) license or license eligibility
Minimum 1 year of pediatric experience
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience in pediatric occupational therapy
Experience working in EMR systems (EPIC preferred)
Additional pediatric specialty certifications (such as SIPT, NDT, or Early Intervention training)

Responsibilities

Perform comprehensive evaluations and develop individualized treatment plans.
Educate families on home exercise programs and adaptive techniques.
Deliver evidence-based interventions to improve functional outcomes.
Collaborate with physicians, therapists, and other care team members.
Support patient care across outpatient clinics and occasional multi-disciplinary clinic settings.
Maintain accurate and compliant documentation within established guidelines.
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.
Rehab Therapist Patient Documentation (Intermediate): 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. May complete accurate chart audits of co-workers in the same classification category.
Treatment Planning & Goal Setting (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery 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. May serve as a mentor for other clinical staff to develop their skills in treatment planning. May consult with team members or implement new procedures.
Rehabilitation Therapist Patient Evaluation (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery 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. Demonstrates experience in clinical evaluation skills and may serve as a mentor for other clinical staff to develop their skills in evaluation techniques. Contributes to the development of best practices for the organization. May consult with team members to implement new procedures.
Treatment Implementation (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery 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. Supervises and directs certified athletic trainers (PT only), physical therapist / occupational therapist assistants, technicians and volunteers and students. Selects and follows correct protocol for care, as established, and actively seek out, utilize and mentor/teach others on current evidence based treatment strategies. May consult with team members to offer suggestions for treatment strategies. May serve as a clinical content expert for practice area, initiates consultation with team members for advanced treatment of patients, develop forum for staff members to utilize clinical expertise.
Physical/Occupational Therapist Patient Education (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery in communicating functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process. Able to adapt communication to needs/level of understanding of audience and share appropriate information/literature. May supervise, educate and train students from professional programs of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and athletic training and/or students and staff from other departments. Contributes in the development of patient education best practices for the organization.