Occupational Therapist, Per Visit Home Health Care/ Nassau Long Island

NYU Langone Health • Mineola, NY

129d • $1 - $75

About The Position

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center, which offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. We are a major regional healthcare resource with a deep commitment to medical education and research, offering a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Occupational Therapist, Per Visit Home Health Care/Long Island. In this role, the successful candidate provides safe, therapeutic, age appropriate occupational therapy to help patients restore or improve functional physical abilities, promote cognitive and behavioral changes, adapt surroundings to achieve optimal level of daily life (ADL/IADL) tasks. Uses clinical expertise to plan delivery of care through examination, planning, implementation and evaluation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Therapy (Accreditation Council of Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) approved NYS OT program).
• Current and valid NYS Occupational Therapy license and registration.
• Basic Life Support Certification.
• 1-2 years Hospital (Inpatient) or Orthopedic or Outpatient or Pediatric Rehabilitation setting experience.
• Communication (both written and oral), customer service, and critical thinking skills.
• Basic computer skills.

Nice To Haves

• 1-2 years Home Care Experience.
• Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates and assesses patients including the use of appropriate tests and measures; patient safety issues and home environment factors.
• Establishes plan of care with measurable and functional short term/long term goals.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Assists leadership with achieving corporate goals, improving quality of patient care outcomes and patient satisfaction.
• Participates in Agency quality assessment/performance improvement initiatives.
• Completes and maintains accurate documentation reflecting the assessment, examination, diagnosis, prognosis, plan of care, education, intervention and evaluation according to Federal, Department of Health (DOH) and The Joint Commission (TJC) requirements.
• Re-assesses patient progress toward short term/long term goals and modifies the plan of care accordingly.
• Educates patient and family regarding patient's functional status and plan of care.
• Provides home exercise program and instruct on home safety factors.
• Interacts and collaborates with other members of the healthcare team to optimize patient outcomes and health care goals.
• Implements and modifies appropriate interventions/treatments based on the patient's functional status, behavioral changes, home environment, patient response and status in conjunction with the plan of care.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness package.
• Financial security benefits.
• Generous time-off program.
• Employee resources groups for peer support.
• Holistic employee wellness program focusing on physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree