Certified Hand Therapist (Occupational Therapist)

Division : Eskenazi Health

Sub-Division : Hospital

Req ID : 20923

Schedule : Full Time

Shift : Days

Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services at the 327-bed hospital and outpatient facilities both on and off of the Eskenazi Health downtown campus as well as at 10 Eskenazi Health Center sites located throughout Indianapolis.

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

Job Role Summary

This position is for an occupational therapist who is a certified hand therapist (or sitting for it within the next year).

The applicant must be knowledgeable of thorough evaluation techniques; possess extensive experience in splinting and treatment skills;

familiarity with various outcome measures; and be committed to enhancing the patient's quality of life throughout the course of therapy.

Patient population consists of almost entirely upper extremity care, including post-operative, fractures, tendon repair, repetitive stress, multi-trauma, wound care, and occasional serial casting to the adult population.

The OT, CHT will work in a hospital-based outpatient clinic and in an interdisciplinary clinic alongside the specialty hand surgeons who refer to them.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Evaluation
• Adapts evaluation appropriately based on the age and cultural background of patient.
• Reviews medical history and adjust clinical decisions based on information
• Completes thorough and effective evaluation
• Administers appropriate standardized and non-standardized assessments
• Develops age appropriate and reasonable plan of care
• Sets reasonable and appropriate client-centered goals
• Treatment :
• Adapts treatment appropriately based on the age and cultural background of patient
• Implements appropriate and timely treatment based on evaluation of patients' physical and psychosocial needs
• Provides client-centered education
• Treatments are creative and effective
• Documentation :
• Accurately and timely documents patient evaluation and treatment per documentation standards
• Obtains appropriate signatures
• Justifies charges, reflects skilled therapeutic need, functional improvement and progress towards goals
• Productivity :
• Works at or above established productivity level
• Volunteers to take walk-in patients
• Volunteers to float to other teams as needed
• Adjusts schedule according to caseload
• Administrative :
• Completion of ancillary tasks that affect patient care
• E-learning and other assigned tasks are completed by the required due dates without reminders
• Authorization requests and insurance requirements are submitted without delaying patient care
• Professional Communication / Collaboration :
• Demonstrates effective communication and teamwork with peers and other staff
• Consults appropriately with physicians and caregivers regarding patient management
• Delegates routine aspects of care as appropriate
• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills with staff, patients, family members
• Provides meaningful patient education materials and completes available interdisciplinary forms
• Attends rounds and care conferences
• Responsive when asked to assist co-workers
• Performance Improvement :
• Actively embraces opportunities and ways of improving services, patient care and / or productivity by impacting cost, outcomes and / or patient satisfaction
• Participates in committees and activities and takes an active role in improving processes for the hospital and department
• Promotes change and assists coworkers to transition in a changing work environment

Job Requirements

• Strong splinting skills and experience in postoperative and post-trauma shoulder, elbow and hand therapy.
• Certification in Hand Therapy (or sitting for it within the next year)
• Active Indiana Occupational Therapist license
• Current BLS certification

Accredited by The Joint Commission and named one of the nation's 150 best places to work by Becker's Hospital Review for four consecutive years and Forbes list of best places to work for women, and Forbes list of America's best midsize employers' Eskenazi Health's programs have received national recognition while also offering new health care opportunities to the local community.

As the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, the city's primary EMS provider, Eskenazi Health is also home to the first adult Level I trauma center in Indiana, the only verified adult burn center in Indiana, the first community mental health center in Indiana and the Eskenazi Health Center Primary Care - Center of Excellence in Women's Health, just to name a few.