Occupational Therapist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Valid Occupational Therapy License.
• CPR certification.
• Valid driver’s license and auto insurance.
• Must be able to stand, walk, sit, climb, crawl, squat, or kneel for extended periods.
• Must be able to lift, carry, pull, or push up to 100 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• One year of occupational therapy experience preferred.
• HomeCare HomeBase experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform clinical assessments, identify patient needs, and determine patient appropriateness.
• 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 issues related to activities of daily living.
• Fabricate and maintain adaptive equipment and hand splints.
• Use effective interpersonal relations 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 the physical, social, and cultural components of the patient’s occupational environment.
• Meet the Agency’s and licensing board’s mandatory continuing-education requirements.
• Promote the Agency’s philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.

Benefits

• 401(k): eligible after 3 months of service; the plan is 100% immediately vested; Choice Health At Home contributes 100% of the first 3% contributed each pay period.