Occupational Therapist

Choice Health at Home • Fort Myers, FL

2d

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, evaluates occupational roles and performance for people with physical, psychosocial, and/or cognitive impairments, provides interventions for deficits, elicits responses, and participates in care coordination.

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 documentation accurately and promptly on an ongoing 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 while coordinating and performing patient-care activities to prevent contamination and disease transmission.
• Assess and facilitate, through direct therapeutic intervention, range of motion, strength, coordination, adaptive-equipment needs and use, environmental modifications, functional mobility, and safety related to patients’ 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 aspects of the patient’s occupational environment.
• Meet continuing-education requirements of the Agency and licensing board.
• Promote the Agency’s philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.

Benefits

• 401(k): Eligibility after 3 months of service; the plan is 100% immediately vested; Choice Health At Home contributes 100% of the first 3% contributed each pay period.

What This Job Offers

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