Occupational Therapist - OT (Part Time)

Choice Rehab•Colorado Springs, CO

12h

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

Requirements

Valid Occupational Therapy license.
Valid driver’s license and auto insurance.
Ability to stand, walk, sit, climb, crawl, squat, or kneel for extended periods.
Ability to lift, carry, pull, or push up to 100 pounds.

Nice To Haves

One year of occupational therapy experience preferred.
HomeCare HomeBase experience preferred.
CPR certification.

Responsibilities

Perform clinical assessments and identify patient needs and appropriateness for care.
Prepare, revise, and complete plans of care, progress notes, phone orders, and other clinical documentation on an ongoing and timely basis.
Accept clinical assignments consistent with education and competence to care for patients and clients.
Participate in the IDG care-planning process.
Apply infection-control concepts and standard precautions when coordinating or performing 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.
Assess physical, social, and cultural components of the patient’s occupational environment.
Meet mandatory continuing-education requirements of the agency and licensing board.
Promote the agency philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.