Outpatient Occupational Therapist

Lexington Medical Center • Cayce, SC

21d

About The Position

Provides occupational therapy professional services to evaluate and treat individuals to prevent, treat, and restore function following disease, trauma, or psychological or social disability. Services may include occupational therapy tests, measurements, exercises, and modalities. Provides direct patient care upon referral by a physician or advanced practice provider and delivers developmentally appropriate care across infant, child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations.

The role includes evaluating patients, developing and administering treatment plans, documenting care, educating patients and families, coordinating with the interdisciplinary team, and assisting with student supervision. The therapist is expected to follow professional practice standards and applicable state, hospital, and departmental policies; work safely and efficiently; and demonstrate professionalism, teamwork, and excellent customer service.

Requirements

• Graduate of an occupational therapy program approved by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education or another AOTA-endorsed accrediting body, or an educational program considered equivalent by the board.
• Current and active Occupational Therapist license in South Carolina.
• CPR certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct occupational therapy patient care upon referral by a physician or advanced practice provider.
• Demonstrate age-specific competence in providing developmentally appropriate care for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.
• Evaluate patients using occupational therapy tests and measurements, including muscle testing, functional tests, range-of-motion assessment, activities-of-daily-living analysis, and orthotics assessment.
• Develop occupational therapy treatment plans.
• Administer treatments, including upper-extremity strengthening and coordination exercises, splint fabrication, sensory integration, pre-vocational skills, and activities-of-daily-living training.
• Document patient treatment data, including progress notes, evaluation reports, and discharge summaries.
• Instruct patients and their families in occupational therapy home programs.
• Communicate and consult with the interdisciplinary team and other professionals regarding patients’ plans of care.
• Take orders from physicians’ offices and the hospital patient care team, and schedule patients as needed.
• Represent the department in meetings and provide in-service classes to other departments as needed.
• Assist in providing clinical supervision for students.
• Perform other duties as assigned or as required in an emergency.
• Exercise sound professional judgment and comply with the state occupational therapy practice act and hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Assess the treatment process and act according to acceptable occupational therapy practice standards and departmental policies and procedures.
• Participate in professional activities for continued self-development and growth of technical knowledge and skills.
• Meet deadlines with little supervision and use effective time management to complete patient-care assignments and meet productivity standards.
• Use safe techniques to protect patients and self and demonstrate competence in safe clinical care practices.
• Maintain a professional image and provide excellent customer service to patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers.
• Demonstrate teamwork, courtesy, compassion, and respect, and conform to the Service Expectation Policy.
• Report to work on time and meet hospital attendance and punctuality criteria.

Benefits

• Day-one medical, dental, and life insurance benefits.
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
• 403(b) match plan eligibility beginning day one; Lexington Health matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer-paid life insurance equal to one times salary.
• Optional supplemental life insurance with low-cost premiums, up to three times salary.
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage for full-time employees after 90 days of eligible employment.
• Adoption assistance.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Student loan forgiveness.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time