Occupational Therapist - OT - Home Health

Lifecare Home Health Family•West Palm Beach, FL

8d•Remote

About The Position

Join Life Care Home Health Family! Serving Texas, Florida, Nevada, and Georgia, we provide skilled nursing, therapy, homecare, hospice, palliative care, and private duty services. This role involves providing coordinated care to clients of all age groups. The Occupational Therapist plans, implements, and evaluates client care plans to restore or maintain patient well-being. They evaluate occupational roles and performance of clients with physical, psycho-social and/or cognitive impairments and provide intervention to deficits and elicit responses. The patient population includes individuals of all ages in a clinical setting, requiring appropriate behavior when interacting with patients across all demographics.

Requirements

Two (2) years’ experience as an OT in a clinical care setting.
Therapy skills as defined as generally accepted standards of practice.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively.
Demonstrates proven decision making skills.
If required to make visits, Hepatitis profile.
Must read, write and comprehend English.
Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy.
Current driver’s license in good standing. It is the responsibility of the employee to renew their driver’s license before it expires in order to continue employment.
Reliable transportation and auto liability insurance.
Current State professional license as an OT in any/all applicable states.
Current CPR.
On-going employment as an OT always requires maintenance of a valid OT license in the state which the therapist practices in and a valid CPR certificate. It is the responsibility of the employee to renew these before they expire in order to continue employment.
Prolonged standing/walking required.
The ability to lift/transfer up to 50 lbs.
Ability to meet deadlines and patient needs, make quick decisions and allocate resources under stressful conditions.
Meet patient/family individualized psychosocial needs.
Requires hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity.

Nice To Haves

Home health experience.

Responsibilities

Perform clinical assessments; identifies patient needs and appropriateness of client.
Document, prepare/revises and completes a Plan of Care (POC), progress notes, phone orders, and other clinical record documentation on an ongoing basis.
Apply concepts of infection control and universal precaution in coordination/performing client cares activities to protect both client and staff (OSHA).
Assess and facilitate through direct therapeutic intervention client’s ROM, strength, coordination needs for and use of adaptive equipment and environmental modifications, functional mobility and safety issues as related to client’s ADL performance needs.
Provides effective communication to clients, their families, team members, and other health care professionals, and regular participation in Case Conference/Team Meetings. Facilitates the use of these skills by other team members to achieve desirable outcomes.
Evaluate client occupational performance in the areas of self-care, work, leisure, and rest. Assess sensory-motor neuromuscular, psycho-social, and cognitive-perceptual components of occupational behavior.
Monitors assigned cases to ensure compliance with requirements of third-party payers.
Completes appropriate documentation in a timely manner to assure compliance with company policy.
Demonstrates commitment and professional growth by participating in in-service programs and maintaining/improving competency.
Meet mandatory continuing education requirements of the Agency/licensing board.