Occupational Therapist; OT; Home Health PRN

Staff Occupational Therapist

Staff occupational therapist performs evaluation and treatment of impairment in functional status in daily living skills following a disability, disease or illness. The person in this position provides services to the following populations:
Adults (Eighteen to seventy-five year olds) Geriatrics (Seventy-five years and older)

Contact with Others:
Requires frequent but limited contacts with many others to do job, or extensive contacts with a limited number of categories of people to apply procedures or treatment. Requires discretion and tact to interpret departmental procedures.

Effect of Error:
Probable errors not easily detected and may adversely affect external as well as internal relationships and may result in major expenditures for equipment, materials, or procedures detrimental to the patient's welfare or the organization's interest. Work is subject to general review only and requires considerable accuracy and responsibility. Continually works with reports, records, plans, and programs of a major functional area of the organization where integrity is required to safeguard the organization's position.

Duties may involve the preparation of data on which the administration bases important decisions and are highly confidential.

Supervisory Responsibility:
Occasionally uses assistance of aide or helper in performance of task

Mental Demands:
Assignment requires planning and arranging own work to reach definite objectives. Applies knowledge of a specific field using several varied procedures or techniques. Solves non-routine technical, treatment, or operational problems under general guides

Working Conditions:

Minor
- Occasionally involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk and probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.

Working Conditions Aspects for Immunizations

Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles):
Yes

Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age:
No

Physical Effort:
Considerable physical effort
- Lifts, carries, or handles medium weight equipment, materials, or supplies most of day. Occasional physical effort with heavy objects (over 60 lbs.). Works in reaching or strained positions frequently.

Physical Aspects

Bending:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Typing:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Manual Dexterity -- picking, pinching with fingers etc.:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Feeling (Touch) -- determining temperature, texture, by touching:
Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Hearing:
Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Reaching -- above shoulder:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Reaching -- below shoulder:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Visual:
Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Color Vision:
Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Speaking:
Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Standing:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Balancing:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Walking:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Crawling:
Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Running - in response to an emergency:
Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Lifting up to 25 lbs.:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Lifting over 60 lbs.:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Handling -- seizing, holding, grasping:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Carrying:
Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Climbing:
Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Kneeling:
Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Squatting:
Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Tasting:
Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Smelling:
Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Driving -- Utility vehicles such as golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift:
Not required

Driving -- Class C vehicles:
Not required

Driving -- CDL class vehicles:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

N95 Respirator usage (PPE):
Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Hazmat suit usage (PPE):
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- up to 25 lbs.:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- 25 to 60 lbs.:
Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- over 60 lbs. :
Constant = 67% - 100% of the time