Occupational Therapist

Overview

This is a Full-Time SNF OTR position in Dothan, AL. 32-40 hours/week.

Location:

Extendicare

• Direct patient treatments.
• Safety of the patient while he/she is in the Occupational Therapy department.
• Organization and proper order of the Occupational Therapy treatment area.
• Maintaining departmental and patient records.
• Monitoring the supplies used for extended care, physical disabilities and stress management patients.
• Charting daily progress of patients.
• Evaluate patients referred to Occupational Therapy to determine their current physical and functional status and assess their potential benefit from Occupational Therapy Services.
• Plan Therapy Programs for:
  Individual in-patients;
  Individual out-patients;
  Extended Care Center Patients and Group;
  Stress management patients.
• Evaluates, records, and reports patients progress for review by other members of the rehabilitation team.
• Prepare and fit splints for functional upper and lower extremities as ordered.
• Requisition s supplies and equipment.
• Provides a safe Occupational Therapy Department.
• Provides for economic use of hospital equipment and supplies.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

• Education:
  
  The Registered Occupational Therapist has satisfactorily completed an Occupational Therapy curriculum approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association. Must be licensed or eligible for licensure by the Alabama Board of Occupational Therapy and certified by the American Board of Certification.
• Training, Experience, Other:
  When educational requirements are met, no previous experience is necessary, but would be desirable.
• COVID vaccination is preferred for this position. However, an exemption will be entertained.

Bending, stooping, lifting patients and equipment when necessary. Pushing patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers. Adjusting equipment to meet the specific needs to the patient treatment. Giving resistive exercise. Physical contact with patients is sometimes necessary in treatment. Being alert and attentive to perceive reactions that patients may have to treatment. Ability to work under pressure and/or stress on occasion. Operation of electrical equipment.

• Authority:
  The Registered Occupational Therapist gives treatment only on written or verbal procedures as prescribed by a medical doctor or D.O.
• Primary Duties:
• Evaluate patients referred to Occupational Therapy to determine their current physical and functional status and assess their potential benefit from Occupational Therapy Services.
• Plan Therapy Programs for:
  Individual in-patients;
  Individual out-patients;
  Extended Care Center Patients and Group;
  Stress management patients.
• Evaluates, records, and reports patients progress for review by other members of the rehabilitation team.
• Prepare and fit splints for functional upper and lower extremities as ordered.
• Requisition s supplies and equipment.
• Provides a safe Occupational Therapy Department.
• Provides for economic use of hospital equipment and supplies.
• Performs related duties as assigned.