Occupational Therapist - Full Time - Acute Care

Job Functions

• Completes patient assessments and treatments.
  • Assesses patient, plans and implements treatment, periodically evaluates patient's progress toward goals and documents patient related assessments and treatments.
  • Plans and implements treatment programs based on evaluation results, discharge goals, and interdisciplinary team patient goals.
  • Provides patient and family teaching, including specific exercise and motor learning to improve strength, endurance, coordination, self-care training, sensory stimulation, and mobility.
  • Provides home programs. Adapts environment to facilitate patient's progress.
• Documents care provided.
  • Documents patient records, billing procedures, and productivity management, as required, adhering to department documentation standards in patient care.
• Promotes team approach.
  • Works cooperatively with team members to assure a comprehensive interdisciplinary patient program and discharge goals, participating in interdisciplinary team conferences, patient planning, patient related conferences and meetings for patients.
• Assesses and implements discharge planning activities and makes appropriate recommendations regarding discharge needs, including home evaluations and equipment orders when necessary.
  • Works with outside vendors to order patient specific equipment when funding has been verified.
• Provides staff training to promote patient progress re: equipment, transfers, mobility, etc.
  • Promotes education and participates department tasks.
• Attends continuing education for licensure requirements and keeps abreast of current/new treatment approaches and/or equipment.
  • Attends mandatory meetings, functions in multiple clinical areas and works at multiple location sites as needed.
• Participates in department management tasks; supervises and/or provides in-services and training for licensed assistants, rehab tech, students, hospital staff, and volunteers.
  • Offers suggestions for process improvement; recommends to the supervisor/manager equipment and/or supplies that may enhance Rehab Program.
• Completes assigned projects by due date.
  • Performs other duties and special projects as required.

Personal Achievement

• Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments.
• Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
• Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
• Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

Performance Improvement

• Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
• Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
• Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
• Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

Cost Management

• Effectively manages time and resources.
• Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial.
• Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.

Patient & Employee Safety

• Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
• Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
• Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
• Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.