Full Time Occupational Therapist

Home Recovery-HomeAid, Inc; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Recovery-HomeAid, Inc. provides professional occupational therapy in home settings under applicable licensure and regulatory guidelines.

The OT duties include assessing clients, formulating and coordinating care plans, educating clients and families, and ensuring treatment adherence and documentation. Qualified candidates hold an OT degree, a current license, CPR certification, and at least one year of clinical/home health experience, with strong communication and organizational skills to

Qualifications

• Holds a current Occupational Therapy License.
• Graduated from an occupational therapy curriculum or eligible for national exam.
• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy.
• One-year clinical experience; home health preferred.
• Current CPR certification.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and human relations skills.
• Able to function with minimal supervision.
• Able to manage multiple projects and changing priorities.
• Able to employ critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Assesses clients using age-appropriate norms and development principles.
• Formulates care plans with client and supervisor and physician approval.
• Identify unmet client needs and refer to appropriate disciplines.
• Educate client/caregiver to enhance self-care abilities.
• Plan and deliver services cost-effectively in home settings.
• Provide OT services as prescribed by a physician in the home.
• Report client responses to treatment to physician or supervisor.
• Use skills to retrain or teach compensation for functions.
• Guide client in therapeutic activities to improve function.
• Improve ROM, strength, and coordination of upper extremities.
• Provide sensory/perceptual motor training when needed.
• Provide splints or equipment to improve function and independence.
• Instruct client/family and other health staff in OT program use of devices.
• Develop maintenance and environment-adaptation plans for ADL skills.
• Document assessments, interventions, and client responses per policies.
• Use electronic documentation timely; participate in case conferences and discharge planning.
• Supervise and evaluate OTAs and HH Aides; provide additional supervision as needed.
• Adhere to federal/state regulations and agency standards.

Skills

Excellent communication

Organizational skills

Human relations skills

Minimal supervision ability

Multitasking

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy

Current Occupational Therapy License

Job description

Overview

Provides professional occupational therapy in accordance with applicable regulatory guidelines and licensure requirements. Maintains compliance with Agency policies and procedures. Formulates, coordinates, and delegates all occupational therapy care and practice in order to meet the healthcare needs of clients, their families, and the community.

Responsibilities

• Assesses the client using age-appropriate norms and principles of growth and development.


• Formulates plans of care to address functional needs in collaboration with client and clinical supervisor and with physician approval.


• Identifies unmet client needs and refers to appropriate disciplines.


• Provides education/instruction to client/caregiver to enhance their self-care abilities.


• Plans and delivers services in a cost-effective and efficient manner.


• Provides occupational therapy services as prescribed by a physician, which can be safely provided in the home; assists the physician in evaluating the client’s level of function by applying diagnostic and prognostic procedures.


• Reports to the physician, RN case manager, and/or clinical supervisor the client’s response to treatment and any changes in the client’s condition.


• Utilizes professional skills and judgment in treating clients to increase strength, coordination, range-of-motion, and function of affected extremities to retrain damaged nerve pathways or to teach compensation utilizing remaining innervations.


• Guides the client in his/her use of therapeutic, creative, and self-care activities for the purpose of improving function.


• Uses activities and exercises to improve range-of-motion, strength, and coordination of the upper extremities


• Provides sensory or perceptual motor training when needed.


• Provides splints or other special equipment needed to improve physical functioning, to prevent deformities, and to increase independence.


• Instructs client, family members, and other health team personnel in the client’s occupational therapy program, including the use of assistive devices and special techniques.


• Develops a maintenance program and provides direction in environment adaptation and specific homemaking and ADL skills.


• Documents the assessments, interventions, and client’s activities and responses according to regulations and Agency policies.


• Utilizes electronic documentation of client care and complies with Agency policy regarding timeliness in submission of documentation.


• Participates in case conferences and discharge planning.


• Supervises and evaluates the performance of Occupational Therapy Assistants (OTA) and Home Health Aides (HH Aides) who are performing services as an extension of therapy care.


• Provides documentation of additional supervision, instruction, and evaluation of OTAs and HH Aides regarding their application of occupational therapy services.


• Has knowledge of and adheres to federal and state regulations, as well as Agency and professional standards.


• Performs additional duties assigned in response to client/department/Agency needs.

Qualifications

• Holds a current Occupational Therapy License.


• Has graduated from an occupational therapy curriculum jointly accredited by the committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation of the American Medical Association and the American Occupational Therapy Association, or eligibility for the national Registration Examination of the American Occupation Therapy Association; of, if initially licensed before 1978, has two years of appropriate experience and a passing grade on a proficiency exam of the U.S. Public Health Service.


• Holds a bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy.


• One-year clinical experience; prefer one-year home health experience.


• Has current CPR certification.


• Has excellent communication, organizational, and human relations skills.


• Is able to function with minimal supervision.


• Is able to manage multiple projects/changing priorities.


• Is able to employ critical thinking skills.

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