Pediatric Occupational Therapist - Home Care - Full Time

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

22h•Remote

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a compassionate and skilled Pediatric Home Care Occupational Therapist (OT) to join their growing Pediatric Home Health team serving Williamson and Davidson Counties. This full-time 0.8 FTE role offers a flexible 4-day work week, allowing you to make a meaningful impact in the lives of children and families while maintaining excellent work-life balance. As a Pediatric Home Health OT, you will provide individualized, evidence-based occupational therapy services to children from birth through 18 years old in the comfort of their homes. You’ll collaborate with a highly respected interdisciplinary team to help patients improve independence, developmental skills, participation in daily activities, and overall quality of life. Join one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers and become part of a team committed to compassionate pediatric care, innovation, and professional excellence.

Requirements

Licensed Occupational Therapist in the state of Tennessee
1 year of pediatric experience working with patients ages birth to 18 years
CPR certification
Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation
Strong communication, organization, and clinical documentation skills
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Home health experience
Acute care pediatric experience
Experience working with medically fragile infants and children
EMR documentation proficiency

Responsibilities

Provide skilled occupational therapy services to pediatric patients in their homes
Evaluate developmental, sensory, motor, and functional needs
Develop individualized treatment plans tailored to each child and family
Educate caregivers and families on therapeutic strategies and home programs
Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to coordinate care
Document evaluations, treatment plans, progress notes, and outcomes in EMR systems
Participate in case conferences and care coordination meetings
Support medically fragile infants, children, and adolescents with complex needs
Formulate functional treatment plan that is goal focused, individualized, safe and age-specific to address deficits and patient/caregiver areas of concern.
Evaluate patient/caregiver responses and modify plan of care according to VHCS and VUMC standards.
Administer and score standardized and criterion referenced tests.
Interpret the results of the assessment and their significance to the patient, family, referring physician and other members of the health care team.
Evaluate and incorporate new research findings into the assessment and treatment of patients.
Assist with establishing or modifying existing "Standards of Practice" for specific patient groups.
Complete documentation according to agency policy.
Meet productivity standards.
Demonstrate accountability as an individual and team member in meeting patient/family needs
Participate in identifying cost effective measures for clinical care.
Manage clinical assignment in an organized, efficient manner using human and other resources.
Provide therapeutic interventions for identified objectives.
Assure coordination of care for all patients including multi-disciplinary coordination as a case manager.
Identify and recommend for referral to other services as indicated.
Assure patient safety.
Establish relationship of trust and confidentiality with patient/caregivers.
Practice Infection Control
Meet obligation for reimbursement of the services.
Incorporate new information gained, from ongoing dialogue with patient, family, team, physician and payer into treatment plan.
Provide education/consultation to patient/caregiver/team/community.
Assess patient/caregiver learning needs, coordinate necessary teaching, and evaluate teaching outcomes.
Effectively identify and use appropriate educational tools and materials.
Plan educational programs to assist team/department with perceived need.
Identify problems and/or actual or potential variances from goals and communicate with the health care team.
Initiate collaboration with the health care team to assure timely identification of the root cause(s) of problems/variances.
Participate in finding solutions for problems/variances and implement actions that move patients/caregivers toward desired goals.
Adapt communication to needs/level of understanding of audience
Clearly and efficiently communicate significant information across the continuum of care and/or from one caregiver to another.
Independently collaborate with peers, members of HCT, and physician.
Seek leadership's guidance in conflict resolution.
Develop and achieve personal and professional goals.
Participate in quality improvement activities.
Identify need for professional growth and seeks appropriate professional development opportunities, obtaining a minimal number of educational activities annually that meet licensure requirements.
Function as an integral member of the team, demonstrating ability to: respect roles and professional boundaries of self and others; follow through with assigned roles and required activities; understand/comply with policies and procedures.
Precept new staff.
Attend/participate in agency and committee meetings, including agency and discipline-specific Unit Boards, utilizing the Shared Governance model.
Adhere to and promote VHCS Mission and Vision.
Integrate professional practice/job responsibilities and organizational expectations.
Comply with standards, policies/procedures, laws and organizational expectations.
Strive to meet organizational service, satisfaction and cost goals.
Represent VHCS on committees, etc. outside the agency, as applicable.