Occupational Therapist – Acute Care (PRN)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt Health is seeking a dedicated Occupational Therapist to join our acute care team on a PRN basis in Nashville, Tennessee. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced hospital environment while supporting a highly collaborative and experienced rehabilitation team. This position is ideal for clinicians with prior acute care or inpatient experience who are looking for flexible scheduling while maintaining hands-on clinical practice in a high-acuity setting. As Middle Tennessee’s largest Level 1 Trauma Center, Vanderbilt Health provides the opportunity to work with a diverse patient population across ICUs, medical and surgical units, and the emergency department.

Requirements

Licensed Occupational Therapist or eligible for licensure in the state of Tennessee
Prior acute care or inpatient experience preferred
Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively within interdisciplinary teams
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

Prior acute care or inpatient experience preferred

Responsibilities

Provide evidence-based occupational therapy evaluations and interventions for hospitalized patients
Deliver care across a variety of inpatient units, including ICUs and emergency services
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans
Educate patients and caregivers on functional independence, safety, and discharge planning
Document patient progress in accordance with hospital and regulatory standards
Participate in departmental initiatives and support a collaborative team environment
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.