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Occupational Therapist

Encompass HealthPike County, IL, Illinois, United States
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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST (PRN

Position - Week Days - $50 Hour)

  • Requires

effective communication skills for working with patients, families,

caregivers, and departmental and interdepartmental relationships.

  • Requires competency in occupational therapy
  • evaluation, assessment, care planning and treatment.

  • Requires task delegation and supervision of
  • occupational therapist assistants and technicians.

  • Maintains open and on-going communication with hospital
  • departments to ensure patient, staff, and hospital needs are met.

    The Occupational Therapist creates an

    environment and culture that enables the hospital to fulfill its

    mission by providing patient safety and patient-centered treatment

    Benefits

    To attract and retain the best professionals, we offer a

    comprehensive and competitive Benefits package that includes

    medical, dental, vision, 401(k), college savings plan, employee

    assistance program, pre-paid legal plan and much more. For more

    information on available Benefits, please click here.

    Who will you treat? We are an acute rehabilitation

    hospital setting. Typically our therapist can expect to spend an

    average of 2-4 weeks with our patients treating a wide clinical

    caseload such as : stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, various

    neurological disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis,

    amputation, joint replacement, fractures, multiple trauma, cardiac

    conditions, and pulmonary conditions. 80% of our patients are

    discharged directly home.

    We use

    evidence-based practice guidelines to treat our patients. We

    utilize our clinical outcomes to assess and improve our treatment

    interventions and programs. We participate in a national outcomes

    database, which provides benchmarks and sophisticated outcome

    reports to help us continually analyze and improve our patient

    outcomes.

    You will use standard and advanced

    therapy technologies- depending on hospital location, some

    equipment used such as Auto Ambulators, Bioness, Interactive

    Metronome, Hand Mentor, SmartStep, Anodyne, Wii and CAPs may be

    available.

    Helping you become a better

    therapist is critical to our success

  • You
  • will be paired with mentors; attend in-house as well as external

    educational programs. The treatment team is made up of full time

  • therapists, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and medical staff;
  • a great way to learn beyond your own discipline.

    Job Code : 100006

    License or Certification :

  • Must be in possession of current state license or
  • certification on or before the first day of employment.

  • CPR certification preferred unless otherwise required
  • by hospital policy.

    Education,

    Training and Experience :

    Successful completion of a degree from an accredited therapy

    program or one that is determined to be substantially equivalent to

    a U.S. accredited program by an appropriate certifying agency

    preferred.

    Physical Requirements :

  • Good visual acuity and
  • ability to communicate

  • Ability to lift,
  • lower, push, pull, and retrieve objects weighing a minimum of 30

    pounds of medical supplies and equipment and the transferring and

    repositioning of patients. Reasonable assistance may be requested

    when lifting, pushing, and / or pulling are undertaken which exceeds

    these minimum requirements

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    Occupational Therapist • Pike County, IL, Illinois, United States