Occupational Therapist (OT) Part Time

Choice Rehab•Thornton, CO

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 well-being, evaluates occupational roles and performance for people with physical, psychosocial, or cognitive impairments, provides interventions, and participates in coordinating care. The therapist performs clinical assessments, determines patient needs and appropriateness for care, and maintains timely clinical documentation, including plans of care, progress notes, and phone orders. The position also participates in interdisciplinary care planning, applies infection-control practices, and provides direct therapeutic interventions related to patients’ functional abilities, daily activities, adaptive equipment, and safety. The therapist evaluates occupational performance and relevant sensory-motor, psychosocial, cognitive-perceptual, environmental, social, and cultural factors. The role requires meeting continuing education requirements and promoting the Agency’s philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.

Requirements

Valid Occupational Therapy License.
CPR certification.
Valid driver’s license and auto insurance.
Ability to stand, walk, sit, climb, crawl, squat, or kneel for extended periods.
Ability 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 and identify patient needs and appropriateness for care.
Document, prepare, revise, and complete plans of care, progress notes, phone orders, and other clinical records in a timely manner.
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 as related to activities of daily living.
Fabricate and maintain adaptive equipment and hand splints.
Use effective interpersonal relations and communication skills, and facilitate those 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.
Assess physical, social, and cultural components of the patient’s occupational environment.
Meet mandatory continuing education requirements of the Agency and licensing board.
Promote the Agency philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.