Responsible for the occupational therapy of patients under the direction and supervision of the Rehabilitation Services.
Essential Functions:
- Evaluates patients, interprets evaluation findings to determine the nature and extent of dysfunction.
- Establishes treatment goals and 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 with other health care personnel as appropriate.
- Provides advice and education to patient and family.
- Regularly assesses clinical signs and symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patient towards goals, the need for modifying goals and 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:
- 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.
- BLS.
- National Provider Identifier (NPI) required as of May 23, 2007.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- NICU experience.
Notes:
- Provide Inpatient Occupational therapy evaluations and treatment at the San Diego Medical Center to both pediatric and adult patients.
- May rotate to ourpatient clinics including Kearny Mesa, Otay Mesa, San Marcos, and El Cajon to provide outpatient occupational therapy services for pediatric and/or adult patients.
- Responsibilities include daily documentation, care planning and treatment progression.
- Position will include weekend day shift coverage and holiday coverage.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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