Occupational Therapist - OT (Part Time)

026d2af3-da01-4dc8-a714-353f3f03daba • Colorado Springs, CO

4h

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 patients and clients with physical, psychosocial, and/or cognitive impairments, provides interventions for deficits, elicits responses, and participates in coordinating care.

Requirements

• Valid Occupational Therapy License.
• CPR certification.
• Valid Driver’s License and auto insurance.
• Must be able to stand, walk, sit, climb, crawl, squat, or kneel for extended periods.
• Must be able to lift, carry, pull, or push up to 100 lbs.

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.
• Document, 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 during 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 issues related to patients’ activities of daily living.
• Fabricate and maintain adaptive equipment and hand splints.
• Use effective interpersonal relations and communication skills, and facilitate these skills among 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 the physical, social, and cultural components of the patient’s occupational environment.
• Meet the Agency’s and licensing board’s mandatory continuing education requirements.
• Promote the Agency’s philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.

What This Job Offers

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