Occupational Therapist PRN - OT

Choice Health at Home • Okmulgee, OK, Okmulgee, OK, US, OK

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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. It evaluates occupational roles and performance for patients with physical, psychosocial, and/or cognitive impairments, provides interventions for identified deficits, and participates in coordinating care.

The Occupational Therapist performs clinical assessments, develops and maintains care documentation, participates in interdisciplinary care planning, and provides direct therapeutic interventions related to daily activities, mobility, safety, adaptive equipment, and environmental modifications. The role also applies infection-control precautions, supports effective communication among care-team members, meets continuing-education requirements, and promotes the Agency’s philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality care.

Requirements

• Valid Occupational Therapy License.
• CPR certification.
• Valid driver’s license and auto insurance.
• Able to stand, walk, sit, climb, crawl, squat, or kneel for extended periods.
• 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.
• 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.
• Participate in the IDG care-planning process.
• Apply infection-control concepts and standard precautions when coordinating and performing patient-care activities.
• Assess and facilitate range of motion, strength, coordination, adaptive-equipment use, environmental modifications, functional mobility, and safety as 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 components 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.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: No Education Listed