Occupational Therapist (OT) - Acute Care PRN

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Clarksville, TN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt Health Clarksville Hospital is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our rehabilitation team on a PRN basis. This role offers the opportunity to provide skilled care across Acute Care and, as needed, Inpatient Rehabilitation, helping patients regain function and independence during critical stages of recovery. Whether you're looking to supplement your current position, maintain your hospital-based skills, or enjoy the flexibility of PRN work, you'll find a supportive team environment focused on delivering exceptional patient care.

Requirements

Licensed Occupational Therapist in the state of Tennessee (or eligible for Tennessee licensure).
Minimum of one (1) year of occupational therapy experience required.
Strong clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
Commitment to delivering compassionate, evidence-based, patient-centered care.
Treatment Planning & Goal Setting (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery 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 (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery 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.
Rehabilitation Therapist Patient Evaluation (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery 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.
Physical/Occupational Therapist Patient Education (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery in communicating functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process. Able to adapt communication to needs/level of understanding of audience and share appropriate information/literature.
Rehab Therapist Patient Documentation (Intermediate): 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.

Nice To Haves

Acute care and/or inpatient rehabilitation experience preferred.
May serve as a mentor for other clinical staff to develop their skills in treatment planning.
May consult with team members or implement new procedures.
Supervises and directs certified athletic trainers (PT only), physical therapist / occupational therapist assistants, technicians and volunteers and students.
Selects and follows correct protocol for care, as established, and actively seek out, utilize and mentor/teach others on current evidence based treatment strategies.
May consult with team members to offer suggestions for treatment strategies.
May serve as a clinical content expert for practice area, initiates consultation with team members for advanced treatment of patients, develop forum for staff members to utilize clinical expertise.
Demonstrates experience in clinical evaluation skills and may serve as a mentor for other clinical staff to develop their skills in evaluation techniques.
Contributes to the development of best practices for the organization.
May consult with team members to implement new procedures.
May supervise, educate and train students from professional programs of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and athletic training and//or students and staff from other departments.
Contributes in the development of patient education best practices for the organization.
May complete accurate chart audits of co-workers in the same classification category.

Responsibilities

Perform comprehensive occupational therapy evaluations and develop individualized treatment plans.
Provide evidence-based interventions for patients with a variety of medical, surgical, neurological, orthopedic, and complex health conditions.
Support patient care primarily in the Acute Care setting, with the opportunity to assist in Inpatient Rehabilitation as needed.
Collaborate closely with physicians, nurses, therapists, case managers, and other interdisciplinary team members.
Educate patients and caregivers on adaptive techniques, safety strategies, equipment recommendations, and discharge planning.
Monitor patient progress and adjust treatment plans to support optimal functional outcomes.
Complete timely and accurate documentation in accordance with hospital and regulatory standards.
Provides activity therapy assessments and occupational therapy assessments, written treatment and discharge plans.
Attends and participates in designated treatment team meetings.
Plans and conducts daily activity therapy group sessions and programs, with individual therapy sessions as needed.
Completes appropriate documentation.
Participates in program Performance Improvement process.