Occupational Therapist - Inpatient

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation•Macon, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Occupational Therapist will provide patient care assessment and treatment. This includes ensuring patient evaluations and treatments are comprehensive, functional, and according to the standard of practice. The role requires sound professional judgment in interpreting evaluation results and establishing an acceptable treatment plan with realistic goals, encouraging patients and significant others in setting goals. The therapist will recognize and respond to changes in the patient's physiologic state, recommend the next level of care, and ensure quality patient outcomes. Additionally, the Occupational Therapist will supervise support staff assisting with patient care by providing direction and feedback, maintain accurate documentation (including evaluations, progress notes, discharge notes, patient/family education, charges, departmental statistics, and ICD-10 codes), and meet department financial and productivity standards. The role involves adjusting individual schedules to meet patient and department needs, participating in process management to optimize quality and efficiency, identifying quality and operational opportunities, and communicating progress and barriers to the supervisor. The therapist will also research and suggest evidence-based best practices, promote professional development and education of other healthcare workers, and provide representation on committees. Conducting in-service training programs to provide state-of-the-art information and enhance safety is also a key responsibility. The therapist must stay informed about changes and developments in the profession locally, at the state level, and nationally, and share clinical expertise with other therapists, student affiliates, and healthcare professionals. Effective and professional communication with patients, physicians, staff, and external customers is essential, as is responding to staff questions and promoting an open atmosphere of communication. The therapist will share information learned from seminars, inform the supervisor of issues and resolutions, and communicate information with patients and families, ensuring understanding. Providing appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines, demonstrating age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities, and interpreting age/developmentally specific responses to treatment/activity accurately are also crucial. Maintaining competence related to age/developmentally specific patient care by regularly updating knowledge of growth and development and the aging process is required.

Requirements

B.S. or M.S. degree from accredited occupational therapy school.
Current licensure in the state of applicable state.
CPR certification in Basic Life Support, Level C.
Able to communicate on a professional level with physicians, nurses, and other health care providers and provide quality care for patients.
Able to communicate with patients of all age groups and significant others appropriate to the level of comprehension.
Has knowledge, clinical skills, and understanding of the patient throughout the entire span of life.

Nice To Haves

Previous hospital experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.
Following hospital policies and procedures.
Following departmental policies and procedures.
Contributing to the overall quality of services.
Assuming responsibility for keeping informed about changes in policies and procedures.
Provides patient care assessment and treatment.
Ensures patient evaluations and treatments are comprehensive, functional, and according to the standard of practice.
Provides sound professional judgment in interpreting the evaluation results and establishing an acceptable treatment plan with realistic goals.
Encourages patients and significant others in setting goals.
Recognizes and responds to changes in the patient's physiologic state.
Recommends next level of care.
Ensures quality patient outcomes.
Supervises support staff assisting with patient care by providing direction and feedback.
Maintains accurate documentation.
Completes written patent evaluations, progress notes, and discharge notes per policy.
Ensures accurate and timely documentation of patient/family education, charges and departmental statistics, and ICD-10 codes as appropriate.
Maintains patient records in a systematic order and documentation is legible.
Ensures that documentation is legible.
Meets department financial and productivity standards.
Understands the budgeted expectation.
Maintains productivity standards.
Adjusts individual schedules to meet the needs of the patient and department.
Participates in process management to optimize quality and efficiency of services.
Identifies quality and operational opportunities.
Participates in process management and communicates progress and barriers to supervisor.
Researches and suggests evidence based best practices to improve quality of patient care.
Promotes professional development and education of other health care workers and provides representation on committees.
Conducts in-service training programs to provide state-of-the-art information to health care workers and enhances safety.
Changes/developments in the profession locally, at the state level, and nationally are understood.
Shares clinical expertise with other therapists, student affiliates, and other health care professionals.
Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients, physicians, staff, and all external customers.
Responds to questions by staff.
Promotes an open atmosphere of communication.
Shares information learned from seminars.
Informs supervisor of issues and resolutions to potential problems.
Communicates information with patient and family and ensures understanding.
Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines.
Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patients served.
Utilizes knowledge of age/developmentally specific data when assessing patients.
Interprets age/developmentally specific response to treatment/activity accurately.
Maintains competence related to age/developmentally specific patient care by regularly updating knowledge of growth and development and the aging process.

Benefits

Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs
Competitive compensation
Generous retirement offerings
Programs that invest in your career development
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program