Travel Rehabilitation Therapist - $2,700 per week

Specialty: Rehabilitation Therapist | Discipline: Therapy

About the role

Travel assignment in Owings Mills, Maryland as an Occupational Therapist in a home health setting. Schedule is Monday–Friday, 8:00 am–4:30 pm with a productivity expectation of 30 points per week. On-call and occasional weekend coverage may be requested. Patient population is primarily geriatric. Local candidates are welcome.

Schedule

• Start date: ASAP
• Duration: 14 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• 8-hour day shifts
• Employment type: Travel

Responsibilities

• Provide occupational-therapy services in patients’ homes
• Complete OASIS documentation
• Perform evaluations, develop plans of care, conduct reassessments, and discharge patients
• Deliver patient/family education and safety/injury-prevention instruction
• Manage caseload of approximately 6 visits per day
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team using Kinnser/Wellsky platform

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of home-care experience
• OASIS documentation experience
• Current BLS certification
• Valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle
• Active or pending Maryland OT license
• COVID-19 and flu vaccinations (medical/religious exemptions only)

Skills

• Above-knee and below-knee prosthetics
• Acute care, adult outpatient, adult rehabilitation facility, and skilled-nursing-facility experience
• Amputee, arthritis, CVA, dementia/Alzheimer’s, hip fracture/total hip replacement, knee injuries/total knee replacement, Parkinson’s disease, spinal-cord injury, and traumatic-brain-injury rehabilitation
• Assessment tools: cognitive, perceptual, standardized, Functional Independence Measure (FIM), Functional Capacity Evaluation
• Splinting: dynamic, static, serial/inhibitory, orthoplast
• Modalities: anodyne, diathermy, electrical stimulation, TENS, kinesiotaping, myofascial release, edema massage, joint mobilization
• Wheelchair evaluation & positioning
• Infection prevention and fall/risk assessment
• Home-health care, discharge planning, and patient/family education

Benefits

• Weekly pay
• Medical benefits