Responsible for the occupational therapy of patients under the direction & supervision of the Rehabilitation Services.
Essential Functions:
- Evaluates patients, interprets evaluation findings to determine the nature & extent of dysfunction.
- Establishes treatment goals & plans treatment to achieve established goals.
- Initiates discharge planning for occupational therapy.
- Implements the treatment program through direct treatment of the patient.
- May delegate a portion of the treatment program to the appropriate supportive personnel.
- Coordinates the treatment program w/ other health care personnel as appropriate.
- Provides advice & education to patient & family.
- Regularly assesses clinical signs & symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patient towards goals, the need for modifying goals & treatment.
- Discharges patient from occupational therapy when the patient has received maximum benefit from occupational therapy.
- Provides accurate, timely documentation of occupational therapy patient management.
- Demonstrates progress toward meeting the criteria for professional practice.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Previous inpatient/outpatient experience, preferred. Will consider new graduates.
- Graduate of an accredited occupational therapy curriculum with a bachelor's or master's degree with certification in occupational therapy OR foreign-trained equivalent.
- Licensure to practice occupational therapy by the State of California.
- American Heart Association approved BLS.
- National Provider Identifier (NPI) required as of May 23, 2007.
- Computer skills competency.
- Basic computer skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Consistently demonstrates the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, and to customers, contracted providers, and vendors.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Pediatrics, swallowing advanced practice certified, developmental testing (Bailey, Gesell) preferred
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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