Occupational Therapist

OT (Occupational Therapist) Responsibilities

• Evaluates, plans, directs, and administers programs of Occupational Therapy (OT) upon referral by the physician.
• Plans and conducts OT programs to restore function, prevent disability, and help patients reach their maximum level of independence.
• Performs supervisory duties.
• Directs and supervises activities of OT assistants, OT technicians, students, and volunteers involved in administering care to patients and assists with orienting new and rotating staff.
• Evaluate patients and establish appropriate patient care plans to include necessary modalities, procedures, exercise programs, and patient education as warranted by the patient s diagnosis and condition.
• Gathers and interprets appropriate data from the medical record, physician reports, patient, and/or family as evidenced by documentation and identifies the need for and utilizes appropriate assistive and orthotic devices.
• Documents evaluations, tests, progress notes, daily treatment notes, attendance records, patient/family education, outcomes, discharge notes, and charges.
• Re-evaluates patients as needed, modifying goals and treatment as patient s status changes.
• Communicates patient s evaluation and subsequent progress to the physician, referral sources, and other clinical staff and coordinates patient s schedule, treatment programs, and discharge planning and recommends solutions to patient care problems.
• Provides and documents patient and family education in regard to deficits, progress toward goals, and therapeutic techniques, with individualized instruction for a home program including equipment use.
• Job duties sometimes require climbing stairs, kneeling, twisting, bending; on occasion, crouching, crawling, and reaching overhead.

• Hearing (corrected) is adequate for oral/aural communication.
• Intelligible speech and adequate language/cognitive skills to perform job duties.
• Bachelor s Degree in OT from an accredited OT program is required.
• MI license for OT required.
• BLS is required per policy guidelines.