Occupational Therapist

Encore Rehabilitation, Inc.; Gulfport (MS); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Encore Rehabilitation, Inc. is seeking an Occupational Therapist based in Gulfport, MS. The role involves providing rehabilitation therapy to patients of all ages, with a focus on both physical and mental disabilities. The therapist will evaluate patients, plan therapy programs, and monitor their progress within a supportive healthcare environment.

Candidates need to have completed an occupational therapy curriculum, hold appropriate licensure, and should be capable of working under pressure. This full-time position is vital for improving patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Registered Occupational Therapist must complete a recognized therapy curriculum.
• Licensure by appropriate boards is necessary.
• Experience is desirable but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate patients' physical and functional status.
• Plan individual and group therapy programs.
• Monitor and report patients' progress.
• Coordinate with the rehabilitation team.

Skills

Knowledge of medical terminology

Ability to evaluate patients

Experience with arts and crafts for therapy

Good common sense

Kindness in dealing with patients

Education

Satisfactorily complete an occupational therapy curriculum

Licensed or eligible for licensure by the Alabama Board of Occupational Therapy

Certified by the American Board of Certification

Job description

Title: Occupational Therapist

ID: 9422

Location: Gulfport, MS

Department: 14-OTR

Status: Full Time

Job Description / Summary

The Registered Occupational Therapist’s job will be to provide rehabilitation therapy to patients of all ages with temporary or chronic physical and mental disability. This is done through purposeful activity that will include manual and creative skills, educational and recreational activities, facilitation techniques, developmental skills and various other techniques as applicable to the specific needs of the acutely and chronically ill patients. Treatment of patients will improve the patient’s physical function and promote mental adjustment.

Performance Requirements

• Direct patient treatments.
• Safety of the patient while he/she is in the Occupational Therapy Department.
• Organization and proper order of the occupational therapy treatment area.
• Maintaining departmental and patient records.
• Monitoring the supplies used for extended care, physical disabilities and stress management patients.
• Charting daily progress of patients.

Physical Demands / Conditions

Bending, stooping, lifting patients and equipment when necessary; pushing patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers; adjusting equipment to meet the specific needs of the patient treatment; giving resistive exercise; physical contact with patients is sometimes necessary in treatment; being alert and attentive to perceive reactions that patients may have to treatment; ability to work under pressure and/or stress on occasion; operation of electrical equipment.

Special Demands

Desire to work with and for people with temporary and/or chronic mental, physical, or developmental disabilities.

Knowledge of medical terminology is needed to understand patient evaluation and to chart patient progress satisfactorily.

Knowledge of and experience in various arts and crafts that can be utilized by patients to build strength and promote function in upper and lower extremities as well as enhance one’s self-esteem and independence.

Good common sense and ability to reason are needed to organize activities and use available supplies to subordinate treatment programs.

An attitude of firm kindness in dealing with patients is necessary.

Must be able to hold in confidence all matters of a personal nature regarding the patient and/or his family coming to his or her knowledge and to disclose such information only when it is in the best interest of the patient.

Ability to be versatile in dealing with a variety of patients and treatment programs.

Qualifications

Education

The Registered Occupational Therapist must satisfactorily complete an occupational therapy curriculum approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association.

Must be licensed or eligible for licensure by the Alabama Board of Occupational Therapy and certified by the American Board of Certification.

Experience

When educational requirements are met, no previous experience is necessary, but would be desirable.

Work Performed

Authority: The Registered Occupational Therapist gives treatment only on written or verbal procedures as prescribed by a medical doctor or D.O.

Primary Duties

• Evaluate patients referred to occupational therapy to determine their current physical and functional status and assess their potential benefit from occupational therapy services.
• Plan therapy programs for:
• Individual in-patients.
• Individual out-patients.
• Extended Care Center patients and group.
• Stress management patients.
• Evaluate, record, and report patients progress for review by other members of the rehabilitation team.
• Prepare and fit splints for functional upper and lower extremities as ordered.
• Requisitions supplies and equipment.
• Provides a safe occupational therapy department.
• Provides for economic use of hospital equipment and supplies.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

General

Source of workers: From schools of occupational therapy and from classified ads in professional publications.

Supervised by: Clinical Director.

Workers supervised: Certified occupational therapy assistant, occupational therapy aide, students of occupational therapy, volunteers and attendants.