Occupational Therapist - PRN

Choice Health at Home • Durant, OK

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 well-being; evaluates occupational roles and performance for people with physical, psychosocial, and/or cognitive impairments; provides interventions; and participates in coordinating care.

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 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 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 they relate to 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, as well as 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.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: No Education Listed