Occupational Therapist - Home Care - Part-Time

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 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. 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. 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 - 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; 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.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