Occupational Therapist (OT) - Pediatric Outpatient PRN

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides occupational therapy services to patients who have impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function and health status resulting from injury, disease or other causes under occasional guidance. Actively collaborates with the health care/educational team to meet patient care, outcomes and system improvement objectives. This role offers the opportunity to work alongside an experienced interdisciplinary team providing specialized care to children with developmental, sensory, communication, and functional challenges in a collaborative academic medical center environment. As a member of our pediatric rehabilitation team, you will: Provide occupational therapy evaluations and treatment for infants, children, and adolescents in an outpatient setting. Work with children experiencing hearing loss, cochlear implants, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), sensory regulation challenges, developmental disorders, and delays in functional skills. Support the needs of children participating in the Mama Lere Hearing School programs. Address developmental, sensory, fine motor, self-care, school readiness, and functional independence goals. Develop individualized treatment plans based on each child's needs and family priorities. Collaborate closely with pediatric speech-language pathologists and other interdisciplinary team members. Educate families and caregivers regarding home programs, adaptive strategies, and developmental support techniques. Maintain accurate documentation in Epic in accordance with organizational and regulatory standards.

Requirements

Current Tennessee Occupational Therapist license or license eligibility.
Graduate of an accredited Occupational Therapy program.
Minimum one year of pediatric occupational therapy experience in an outpatient, rehabilitation, or related pediatric setting.
Ability to practice independently while collaborating effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Rehab Therapist Patient Documentation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in documentation practices. Documents in the appropriate templates and utilizes only approved abbreviations within patient documentation. Meets institutional standards for quality and timeliness of documentation.
Physical/Occupational Therapist Patient Education (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in communicating functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process. Considers the communication needs/level of understanding of audience and may share appropriate information/literature. May supervise, educate and train students from professional programs of physical therapy, occupational therapy and athletic training.
Treatment Planning & Goal Setting (Novice): Demonstrates sufficient proficiency in developing a plan of care that incorporates treatment interventions focused on meeting objective goals. Develops and documents patient focused short and long term goals that are functional and measurable. Identifies the need for and referral to other services, as needed.
Treatment Implementation (Fundamental Awareness): Demonstrates proficiency in providing treatment consistent with physician prescription and established plan of care. Able to modify treatment plan as needed to demonstrate provision of skilled therapy services including progression of treatment throughout course of care, and revision of treatment interventions of goals not met. May supervise and direct certified athletic trainers (PT only), physical therapist / occupational therapist assistants, technicians and volunteers and students. Selects and follows correct protocol for care and utilize evidence based treatments.
Rehabilitation Therapist Patient Evaluation (Novice): Demonstrates proficiency in evaluating patients with physical deficits including impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function by obtaining information pertinent to the assessment and administering and scoring standardized tests and objective measures of deficit areas. Selects appropriate measures and performs a functional assessment to document patient's status requiring skilled therapy. Interprets the results of the assessment and their significance to the patient, family, referring physician and other members of the health care team.
Relevant Work Experience
1 year
Bachelor's

Nice To Haves

Experience working with children with hearing loss, cochlear implants, autism spectrum disorder, sensory regulation needs, and developmental disorders.
Prior pediatric outpatient rehabilitation experience.

Responsibilities

Analyzes comprehensive information from formal and informal assessment that is pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine a rehabilitation treatment diagnosis.
Collaborates with stakeholders in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the rehabilitation continuum.
Applies appropriate, evidence-based interventions to ensure effective outcomes and re-evaluates performance to assess patient's progress towards goals.
Employs strategies to promote successful return to home, community, and school/vocational environments.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.