Senior I Occupational Therapist

Patient/Customer

• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports detailing their progress.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities.
• Analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• Select activities that help individuals learn work and life-management skills within their limits.
• Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in various settings.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments to accommodate their needs and capabilities.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs and coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Help clients improve decision-making, abstract reasoning, memory, coordination, and perceptual skills using computer programs.
• Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.
• Supervise, train, and assess therapy students during onsite clinical affiliations.
• Initiate, facilitate, and moderate lab sessions for therapy students at area academic programs.
• Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

Clinical Education

• Serves as fieldwork instructor (if student is available).
• Affords assistance with clinical education of students if not the primary FI Staff.

Operation

• Therapy Examination.
• Therapy Treatment Planning.
• Therapy Treatment Implementation.
• Applies the Principles of Logic & Scientific Method to the practice of OT.
• Full compliance with licensure requirements.
• Ethical & Legal Practice Standards.
• Therapy Documentation - Compliance Audits - Total of 2 charts reviewed in a quarter by Site Manager or senior therapist.
• Qualitative Chart Audit - At least 1 done per year.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Therapy required.
• Master's Degree preferred.
• 2 years clinical experience required.
• Occupational Therapist license required.
• Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required.