Occupational Therapist, Home Health

CenterWell • Columbia, MO

1d • Remote

About The Position

As a therapist at CenterWell Home Health, you will play a vital role in helping patients regain strength, mobility, and independence from the comfort of their homes. You will deliver personalized care focused on rehabilitation and functional improvement, empowering individuals to overcome physical limitations and improve their quality of life. CenterWell Home Health specializes in personalized, comprehensive home care for patients managing chronic conditions or recovering from injury, illness, surgery, or hospitalization. Their care teams include various healthcare professionals working together to help patients rehabilitate, recover, and regain independence. CenterWell, a Humana company, is a leading healthcare services business focused on creating integrated and differentiated experiences, providing high-quality, accessible, comprehensive, and personalized healthcare. As the largest provider of senior-focused primary care, a leading provider of home healthcare, and an integrated home delivery, specialty, hospice, and retail pharmacy, CenterWell focuses on the whole health and addressing the physical, emotional, and social wellness of its patients.

Requirements

• Degree from an accredited Occupational Therapy Program
• Current and unrestricted OT licensure
• Current CPR certification
• Good organizational and communication skills
• A valid driver’s license, auto insurance, and reliable transportation are required

Nice To Haves

• A minimum of six months of occupational therapy experience preferred
• Home Health experience a plus

Responsibilities

• Assess/screen patient's daily living/work-related skills and develop therapeutic retraining programs with measurable objectives.
• Administer and interpret diagnostic and prognostic tests of function to patients in their homes or other settings to assist the physician in evaluating the patient’s level of function.
• Confer with the patient's physician and other health care team members and participate in development/revision of the Plan of Care Treatment.
• Provide therapeutic treatment and instruction to patients in accordance with physician orders to improve/restore strength, coordination, range-of-motion and function or teach compensation measures.
• Review/expand the retraining programs in a manner consistent with the behavioral goals of each patient and within the guidelines of the rehabilitation program as a whole.
• Consult with other vocational team members, as appropriate, to develop and implement vocationally oriented plans consistent with the needs and capabilities of patients.
• Report patient status and progress to the physician, rehabilitation staff, Clinical Manager, patient and family members.
• Participate in care coordination and discharge planning activities and act as a resource to other health care personnel in meeting patient's needs.
• Design community reintegration activities to assist the client in the physical reconditioning effort, and/or the psychological adjustment and coordinate the plan with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Recommend and/or design special adaptive equipment for clients to improve residence or working environments or improve their participation in the rehabilitation program and/or community.
• Design/train staff and family members to carry out the retraining program including dressing, feeding, grooming and hygiene skills, participate in team and family educational meetings.
• Coordinate/oversee/supervise/instruct and evaluates Occupational Therapy Assistant and Home Health Aide performance in implementing occupational therapy services.
• Accurately and thoroughly document patients' care observations, interventions and evaluation on the day services are rendered.
• Ensure that interim (verbal) orders received from the physician are accurately documented and implemented.
• Submit evaluation, treatment plans and discharge summary to the supervisor and care management staff.

Benefits

• medical benefits
• dental benefits
• vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term disability
• long-term disability
• life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level