Occupational Therapist

Optimal Home Care is looking for an Occupational Therapist (OT) to provide services for our patients!

About us:

Optimal Home Care is a trusted and growing agency serving the great Colorado area. Optimal is a Colorado owned and operated home health agency that has been serving patients since 2004. The culture at Optimal is what sets us apart. At Optimal Home Care you are not just a number. We are big enough to provide you with the support and resources you need to provide the highest possible patient care, but small enough to give you the culture and mission you’re looking for.

Optimal Home Care is devoted to helping our patients achieve and maintain the best possible quality of life. Our mission is to improve and restore our clients’ lives through quality patient care, innovative specialty health care programs and state of the art technology. The Optimal team embodies compassion, heart, patience, empathy, and competence to meet our patient’s needs.

Core values: Commitment Advocacy Respect Excellence

Position & Responsibilities:

• The Occupational Therapist (OT) provides occupational therapy services in compliance with AOTA standards, policies, and guidelines, applicable federal and state laws and regulations, and payer requirements related to occupational therapy practice and service delivery.
• Practices and maintain patient safety and dignity by abiding by Federal, State, Local and Optimal policy & procedures as pertains to patient protected health information and HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act).
• The OT abides by the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics. (AOTA, 2005)
• The OT abides by the Standards for Continuing Competence (AOTA, 2005) by maintaining and updating professional performance, knowledge, and skills.
• The OT is responsible for all aspects of Occupational Therapy service delivery and is accountable for delivery of safe, effective OT services.
• The OT respects the client’s sociocultural background and provides patient-centered and family-centered services ethically, with a best practice approach.
• The OT accepts and responds to referrals, directs the evaluation process utilizing defined protocols and standardized assessments, and analyzes and interprets the data in compliance with state and federal laws and other regulatory and payor requirements.
• The OT collaborates with the client(s) to evaluate the patient’s ability to participate in daily life with consideration of the patient’s history, goals, capacities, and needs and based on the activities the patient wants and needs to perform in the contexts and environments where the activities occur.
• The OT abides by the time frames, protocols, and standards established per home health care guidelines, federal and state law, and other regulatory and payor requirements.
• The OT communicates evaluation results within the established boundaries of patient confidentiality and privacy regulations (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act – HIPAA), by sharing information only with appropriate people involved in the client’s case.
• The OT recommends additional consultations by seeking MD orders and refers clients to appropriate resources when the needs of the client(s) will be best served by the expertise of other professionals or services.
• The OT has overall responsibility for development, documentation, and implementation of Occupational Therapy interventions based on skilled evaluation, patient goals, and clinical reasoning.
• The OT ensures that the Plan of Care is documented, communicated, and approved by the patient’s MD within the time frames formats, and standards established by the home health agency, state and federal laws, and other regulatory and payor requirements.
• The OT Plan of Care is developed…