About the role

  • Occupational Therapist providing evaluations, treatments, and discharge planning in a busy trauma hospital. Collaborating closely with a multi-interdisciplinary team to deliver excellent patient care.

Responsibilities

  • Provides appropriate supervision to supportive personnel (OTA's, techs, students) while assuming responsibility for care of patient.
  • Attends and actively participates in patient team conferences and family conferences.
  • Determines needs for follow up outpatient therapy and makes post-discharge recommendations.
  • Documents within EMR and charting accurately reflects a logical flow between data collected, action taken, and patients response to the action.
  • Plans specific measures to meet assessed learning needs and documents in patient record.
  • Recognizes and addresses patient, family, and appropriate others in the learning needs of the individual.
  • Presents information clearly and in a manner appropriate to the level of patient and family understanding.
  • Implements the treatment plan and evaluates and records the patient responses to the treatment sessions.
  • Participates in the development of individual discharge plans that are responsive to patient/family concerns.
  • Able to revise/update plan based on assessment.
  • Completes documentation per department policy.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree- Required
  • Master's degree- Preferred
  • Current license in the state of Arizona- Required
  • BLS (American Heart Association) - Required upon date of hire.
  • Fingerprint Clearance Card application number- Required upon hire
  • Fingerprint Clearance Card- Required within 90 days of hire
  • Clinical documentation experience- Preferred

Benefits

  • $10,000 sign on and relocation
  • Mentorship available

Job title

Occupational Therapist, Acute

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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