Occupational Therapist

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST (PRN

Position - Week Days - $50 Hour)

• Requires

effective communication skills for working with patients, families,

caregivers, and departmental and interdepartmental relationships.

evaluation, assessment, care planning and treatment.

occupational therapist assistants and technicians.

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

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

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

a great way to learn beyond your own discipline.

Job Code : 100006

License or Certification :

certification on or before the first day of employment.

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 :

ability to communicate

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