Occupational Therapist - Full Time

*** 3-5 years hand therapy experience preferred ***
OR
*** Certified Hand Therapist preferred ***
Summary of Position:
The staff Occupational Therapist is responsible for providing Occupational Therapy services to acute care patients, outpatients, and skilled/nursing/home health and hospice clients. The staff therapist will utilize established policies and procedures to ensure safe and effective care. The Occupational Therapist is accountable for safe, effective patient and family-centered care in alignment with the mission, vision and values of the organization. The staff Occupational Therapist will provide services to all age populations 0-65+ older populations in collaboration with the multidisciplinary care team.
Qualifications
Education:
• Bachelor's degree of an Accredited Occupational Therapy program, Master's Degree preferred
Experience:
• Minimum of 1 year of experience as an Occupational Therapist preferred.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
• Proficient computer skills are required to document patient care, communicate and enter information into the electronic medical record system.
• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive clinical judgement and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with various departments in and outside of the Barton Health System in order to provide consistently exceptional care.
• Attention to detail to adhere to regulatory standards.
Certifications/Licensure:
• NBCOT Certification-Required
• Current CPR/BLS Certification by the American Heart Association (BLS for the Healthcare Provider) or ability to obtain prior to start date.
• Current California licensure mandatory and Nevada licensure within the first 6 months.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, stand, sit, and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfer patients.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Routine Hospital/Healthcare & Office/Administrative conditions.
• Contact with patients and guests under a wide variety of circumstances.
• Regularly exposed to the risk of bloodborne diseases.
• Exposure to infections and contagious disease.
• Exposed to hazardous anesthetic agents, body fluids and waste.
• Subject to hazards of flammable and explosive gases.
• Subject to varying and unpredictable situations, including the handling of emergency or crisis situations.
• Subject to pressure due to irregular hours, frequent interruptions and stressful situations due to multiple demands.
• Occasional travel to various health system locations.
Essential Functions
1. Provides consistently exceptional care at all times.
2. Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary care team, in accordance with CMS guidelines.
3. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and meet the individualized needs of all patients served.
4. Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with others as required and adjusts care plan as necessary to ensure optimal outcomes. Ability to perform as both a generalist and specialist
5. Performs initial assessment and repeat assessments at designated and appropriate intervals on all assigned patients, recognizing disturbed physiology and abnormal parameters.
6. Assesses pain levels on all patients:
a. Upon initial assessment and reassesses according to standards
b. Evaluates location, severity, intensity and quality of pain.
c. Uses the approved pain scale for measurement
d. Reevaluates pain level in response to intervention/ treatment
e. Reports abnormal results to appropriate clinical nursing staff
7. Assesses psychosocial needs of patients, expressing an interest in their progress and comfort and educates them to the plan of treatment.
8. When indicated, delegates portions of the treatment plan to occupational therapy assistants. Utilizes supportive personnel to perform duties within their abilities and scope of service.
9. In collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, it effectively educates patients, families in treatments/rehabilitation techniques. Participates in patient care conferences.
10. Designs and fits adaptive devices based on a patient's disability and rehabilitation needs such as splints & braces
11. Performs treatment programs in accordance with pre-established protocols
12. Monitors and ensures accuracy and timeliness of documentation in patient medical records. All aspects of care delivered are accurately documented
13. Recognizes unusual conditions outside of his/her expertise and seeks input from an interdisciplinary team.
14. Keeps patient/family informed of progress, procedures, and disposition.
15. Demonstrates a working knowledge of regulatory and licensing standards and ensures that practice is compliant with standards.
16. Responds to the needs of the department by performing other duties, as necessary.