Acute Care Occupational Therapist — Bedside Rehab

Advocate Health; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 56,000 - 79,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health benefits

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short- and Long-Term Disability

FSA

Job summary

Advocate Health's Carolinas Medical Center Acute Care Rehabilitation team is seeking a part-time Occupational Therapist to support adult bedside care. You will work across varied medical needs, helping patients regain independence and ensure safe transitions of care in a fast-paced hospital setting.

Ideal candidates hold a Bachelor’s Degree in OT, a valid state OT license, and BLS certification. The role emphasizes collaboration with clinicians, documentation, and educating patients and families

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in OT from an accredited OT program required.
• Applicable state OT license required.
• BLS required per policy guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Directs and supervises activities of OT assistants, OT technicians, students, and volunteers involved in administering care to patients and assists with orienting new and rotating staff.
• Evaluates patients and establishes appropriate patient care plan to include necessary modalities, procedures, exercise programs, and patient education as warranted by the patient’s diagnosis and condition.
• Gathers and interprets appropriate data from the medical record, physician reports, patient, and/or family as evidenced by documentation and identifies need for and utilizes appropriate assistive and orthotic devices.
• Documents evaluations, tests, progress notes, daily treatment notes, attendance records, patient/family education, outcomes, discharge notes, and charges.
• Re-evaluates patients as needed, modifying goals and treatment as patient’s status changes.
• Communicates patient’s evaluation and subsequent progress to physician, referral sources, and other clinical staff and coordinates patient’s schedule, treatment programs, discharge planning and recommends solutions to patient care problems.
• Provides and documents patient and family education in regard to deficits, progress toward goals, and therapeutic techniques, with individualized instruction for a home program including equipment use.

Job description

Advocate Health's Carolinas Medical Center Acute Care Rehabilitation team is seeking a part-time Occupational Therapist to support adult bedside care. You will work across varied medical needs, helping patients regain independence and ensure safe transitions of care in a fast-paced hospital setting.

Ideal candidates hold a Bachelor’s Degree in OT, a valid state OT license, and BLS certification. The role emphasizes collaboration with clinicians, documentation, and educating patients and families