Occupational Therapist - Acute Care

Occupational Therapist - Acute Care

Your greatest reward is seeing patients get back to the work and life they enjoy. As an Occupational Therapist, you effectively assess, plan, and implement specific treatment programs for individual patients to promote the best possible outcomes. If this is how you view your work, and if you enjoy being part of a multidisciplinary treatment team and supervising support personnel, we invite you to consider this opportunity.

This is an acute care position.

Job Description

• Assesses, plans, and implements specific occupational therapy treatment programs for individual patients.
• Collaborates with a multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Supervises the work of support personnel.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited Occupational Therapy program approved by the Occupational Therapy Association.
• Able to render patient services and supervise Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (OTA/COTA), Therapy Aides, and students.
• Excellent organizational skills to facilitate program development.
• Demonstrates competency, as appropriate to the ages of patients served, in the ability to obtain and interpret information in terms of the patients' needs; knowledge of normal growth and development; and an understanding of the range of treatment needed.
• Skilled in home program development and family training.
• Knowledge in appropriate selection and use of DME (adaptive equipment).
• Computer skills.

Benefits

• Compensation details: $46.81 - $66.94 hourly wage.