Occupational Therapist (OT)

Choice Health at Home • Greenwood Village, CO

5d

About The Position

The Occupational Therapist is a licensed professional who provides occupational therapy to patients and clients of all age groups. The role plans, implements, and evaluates care plans to restore or maintain patient and client well-being. It evaluates occupational roles and performance for people with physical, psychosocial, and/or cognitive impairments, provides interventions for deficits, elicits responses, and participates in coordinating care.

The Occupational Therapist assesses patients’ occupational performance in self-care, work, leisure, and rest, as well as sensory-motor, neuromuscular, psychosocial, and cognitive-perceptual components of occupational behavior. The role also assesses the physical, social, and cultural components of the patient’s occupational environment and facilitates functional abilities and safety through therapeutic intervention.

The position requires timely clinical documentation, participation in interdisciplinary care planning, application of infection-control precautions, collaboration with team members, and compliance with continuing education requirements and Agency policies.

Requirements

• Valid Occupational Therapy License.
• CPR certification.
• Valid driver’s license and auto insurance.

Nice To Haves

• One year of occupational therapy experience preferred.
• HomeCare HomeBase experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform clinical assessments, identify patient needs, and determine patient appropriateness.
• Prepare, revise, and complete plans of care, progress notes, phone orders, and other clinical records on an ongoing and timely basis.
• Accept clinical assignments consistent with education and competence to care for patients and clients.
• Participate in the IDG care-planning process.
• Apply infection-control concepts and standard precautions when coordinating and performing patient-care activities to prevent contamination and disease transmission.
• Assess and facilitate patients’ range of motion, strength, coordination, adaptive-equipment needs and use, environmental modifications, functional mobility, and safety related to activities of daily living.
• Fabricate and maintain adaptive equipment and hand splints.
• Use effective interpersonal and communication skills and facilitate their use by other team members to achieve desirable outcomes.
• Evaluate occupational performance in self-care, work, leisure, and rest; assess sensory-motor, neuromuscular, psychosocial, and cognitive-perceptual components of occupational behavior, and assess physical, social, and cultural components of the occupational environment.
• Meet continuing-education requirements of the Agency and licensing board.
• Promote the Agency philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k): eligibility after three months of service; immediate 100% vesting; Choice Health At Home contributes 100% of the first 3% contributed each pay period.
• Health Savings Account
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Company vehicle may be available after 90 days of full-time employment, subject to Fleet Car team terms and conditions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed