Occupational Therapist

Essential Duties

• Performs infant, child, adolescent, adult, older adult occupational therapy evaluation and intervention and documents significant findings, goals, plan of care, and discharge planning for inpatients, outpatients, school based, and skilled nursing facility patients.
• Communicates with referral sources as necessary.
• Intervention provided in accordance with standards of practice.
• Accurately and promptly completes paperwork to ensure efficient handling of medical record.
• Enters charges appropriately.
• Provides, recommends, and fabricated adaptive devices or other equipment, and trains patient and family in appropriate use of application of splints, orthotics, and prosthetics.
• Attends in-service meetings and facility meetings as required.
• Potentially provide occupational health contracts for local employers.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor degree from an accredited school of occupational therapy required.
• Successful completion of National Certification Examination for OTR required.
• State registration to practice occupational therapy by the Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licenses required.
• Completed and cleared Idaho background check required.

Summary

Experience/expertise in multiple treatment settings preferred.