Occupational Therapist-Outpatient

Aegis Therapies – Occupational Therapist

Job Type: Full‑time, Part‑time, PRN

Schedule: Monday to Friday, No Weekends, No Evenings

Location: Brookdale Kettering – Dayton, OH

Setting: Assisted Living, Independent Living, Outpatient

• Qualifications: Current license as Occupational Therapist or ability to obtain in the state of practice.
• Previous experience in outpatient, preferred.

Benefits:

• Support, local clinical mentorship, clinical education and unlimited CEUs
• Create your own career path: clinically, management, etc.
• Flexible schedule, paid time off, plus one paid CEU day
• Licensure and professional membership reimbursement
• Interdisciplinary collaboration for providing the best patient care
• Medical, dental, vision within the first 30 days
• National opportunity to transfer while maintaining seniority
• Multiple settings nationwide: CCRC, SNF, Assisted Living, Independent Living, Outpatient Clinics, Home Health, Post‑Acute, Telehealth
• New Grads Welcomed!
• And much more

Employment Type: Full‑Time, 36 hours per week

Benefits Eligible: Yes – Explore employee benefits here
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Essential Functions

• Promotes mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, and abides by service standards.
• Competent Services: Provides skilled occupational therapy services, staying updated on standard practices for different patient groups. Conducts evaluations and treatments according to professional standards (AOTA), considering diagnosis, history, and physician referrals, and develops care plans with specific goals based on patient assessments.
• Productivity Standards: Meets established productivity standards for the department or service line.
• Documentation and Billing: Keeps thorough and timely patient records as required by regulations and facility policies. Completes patient billing accurately and promptly.
• Communication: Communicates effectively with patients, families, physicians, and healthcare providers about patient needs and goals. Ensures smooth operations and optimal use of rehabilitation services.
• Patient Care and Supervision: Manages all aspects of patient care and education, including supervising assistants, aides, office staff, and students to ensure high-quality care.
• Continuing
  
  Education:
  
  Participates in and promotes continuing education opportunities for self and staff, seeking new learning opportunities according to licensure requirements.
• Quality Improvement: Engages in quality improvement processes, including safe equipment use, improving clinical outcomes, patient access, patient experience and all aspects of the Intermountain Operating Model. Participates in utilization review audits.
• Meetings: Participates in patient care conferences, interdisciplinary meetings, staff meetings, and necessary professional and work groups in collaboration/consensus with leader.
• Program Development and Marketing: Contributes to program development and marketing strategies to grow the physical therapy program and achieve department goals.

Skills

• Quality Improvement
• Verbal and Written Communication
• Patient Engagement
• Critical Thinking
• Time Management
• Care Planning
• Compassion

Qualifications

• Current Occupational Therapist license in states where you work.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers.
• Basic Computer skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• Possess skill sets and experience with target population of job setting.
• Current driver’s license, reliable transportation, and acceptable driving record.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed…