CLIN SPEC-OT

About the role

Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, part of Covenant Health, is a trusted regional hospital serving East Tennessee with advanced care and a personal touch. With more than 30 specialties, including cardiology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, and vascular care, the facility offers innovative treatments for complex conditions like aneurysms, joint damage, heart failure, and chronic wounds. Backed by a team of over 1,000 healthcare professionals and 250 physicians, Methodist Medical Center combines state-of-the-art technology with compassionate care, earning national recognition for patient safety and excellence in stroke and heart care. Our facilities offer patients all the benefits of medical expertise and innovation while still embodying the convenience of a hometown medical center that is close to the support of family and friends.

Responsibilities

• Plans, evaluates and implements treatment programs for occupational therapy patients.
• While maintaining a patient load, assumes additional responsibility of program development, staff training and orientation, and consultation in area of expertise for fellow staff members.
• Advanced clinical practice - including evaluation and specialized treatment of patients.
• Performs patient evaluations (initial, progress, and discharge evaluations), establishes treatment plans, makes recommendations, and sets goals in accordance with patient needs and evidence based practice.
• Meets established targets for passive/active treatment ratios.
• Involves patient and family in treatment, education and goal setting.
• Coordinates with other medical personnel regarding patient’s progress, needs and discharge planning.
• Demonstrates knowledge and competency including providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
• Serves as resource person for staff and senior staff on an ongoing basis.
• Provides 8 hours education/mentorship time per year (including peer counseling/mentorship, community lectures/volunteer, orientation of new staff in area of specialty, in-services/case studies, lunch and learns, development, implementation and evaluation of standards of care and evidence based practice, evidence base practice protocols, clinical outcomes analysis and communication to team, new policy development, QI/QA).
• Maintains and updates patient documentation in accordance with professional, departmental, organizational, and payer guidelines and timeframes.
• Maintains established targets for compliance with chart audits.
• Meets established targets for quality/outcome measures, service/patient satisfaction measures, financial/productivity measures, growth/patients-per-day measures.
• Demonstrates leadership including but not limited to:
  • Development and implementation of new and current programs.
  • Participates in training, orientation and supervision of support staff.
  • Participates in orientation of new licensed staff in area of specialty.
  • Acts as Clinical Instructor for at least one student per year as available.
  • Participates in peer evaluations for competency assessment.
  • Assists with continuing education courses hosted by Covenant Health.
  • Participates in professional organization/meetings (TOTA, A