Provides independent occupational therapy management of patients, under the direction of the Director of Rehabilitation or designee. Provides occupational therapy services in specialized patient care clinics, and assists in the development, implementation, and review of departmental patient care programs.
Essential Functions:
- Evaluates patients and 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 plan through direct treatment of the patient, delegates a portion of the treatment plan to appropriate supportive personnel, and coordinates the treatment program with other health care personnel as appropriate.
- Provides advice and education to patient and family.
- Evaluates need for and trains patient/family in the use of special equipment or devices and adapts as necessary e.g., splints, slings, prosthesis, A.D.L equipment or refers to other disciplines as necessary for effective treatment.
- Regularly reassesses clinical signs and symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patients towards goals, and 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.
- Participates in appropriate and approved educational and clinical research activities in occupational therapy.
- Participates in specialized patient care clinics outside the department.
- Assists in the development, implementation, and review off departmental patient care programs.
- Performs other duties as needed in the areas of staff education, departmental operations, and departmental projects.
- Demonstrates on-going progress toward meeting the criteria for professional practice.
Secondary Functions:
- Evaluate patients on medical referral. Assess physical and psychosocial dysfunction. Develop and document treatment plans and goals. Provide appropriate therapy treatments as indicated (ADL training, family instruction, equipment evaluation, splint and assistive device fabrication, etc.).
- Re-assess patient status and adjust treatment plans accordingly.
- Educate patient and family in home self-care programs.
- Participate in departmental education and QA activities. Complete daily documentation and paperwork. Make group educational presentations to patients and other medical office staff. - Other duties as required.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Significant (usually 3-5 years) experience.
- Graduate of an accredited occupational therapy curriculum with a Bachelors or Masters degree with certification in occupational therapy or foreign-trained equivalent.
- Licensure to practice occupational therapy by the State of California.
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI, or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Ability to perform both routine and complicated therapy under general supervision.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3-5 years experience with physical disabilities. Experience in an acute care setting within the last year required. Previous experience working in a Kaiser Permanente hospital setting preferred.
- Must have abilities to efficiently manage patients with post-operative musculoskeletal, neurological and general medical problems in an acute care setting.
- Must be able to work cooperatively with other disciplines and be part of a team, including O.T.s, P.T.s, P.T.A.s, and Speech Pathologists, providing acute rehabilitation services to patients.
- Must have a proven history of providing care and service to patients in a courteous manner.
- Must have evidence of on-going professional education
- Must have abilities to effectively communicate and interact with physicians, discharge planners, nursing staff and other medical center personnel.
Hours may vary. Work site may vary between 1200 El Camino Real/SSF and 801 Traeger/San Bruno. Schedule may include week-ends and holidays for hospital coverage.
- Work assignment may also include out-patient care based on operational need.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.