Occupational Therapist - Inpatient

148 Central Georgia Rehabilitation Hospital, LLC; Macon (GA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits Eligible

40 hours per week

Full-time schedule

Job summary

Navicent Health Rehabilitation Hospital is seeking a full-time Occupational Therapist to provide patient care assessment and treatment, develop treatment plans, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team. The role emphasizes accurate documentation, adherence to policies, and improving quality of care for all age groups in a hospital setting. Requirements include a B.S.

or M.S. in Occupational Therapy and current licensure. CPR/BLS Level C certification preferred.

Qualifications

• Able to communicate on a professional level with physicians, nurses, and other health care providers.
• Able to communicate with patients of all age groups and significant others appropriate to the level of comprehension.
• Has knowledge, clinical skills, and understanding of the patient throughout the entire span of life.

Responsibilities

• Provides patient care assessment and treatment.
• Maintains accurate documentation of patient records and discharge notes.
• Ensures patient evaluations and treatments are comprehensive and per standard of practice.
• Recommends next level of care and contributes to quality outcomes.
• Supervises support staff and ensures productivity and accuracy of records.

Skills

Professional communication

Team collaboration

Patient care focus

Education

B.S. or MS in Occupational Therapy

Job description

Department: 37696 Navicent Health Rehabilitation Hospital - Occupational Therapy Status: Full time Benefits Eligible: Yes Hours Per Week: 40 Schedule Details/Additional Information: Mon-Friday normal business hours with rotating holidays and weekends. Pay Range: $38.20 - $57.30

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

B.S. or M.S. degree from accredited occupational therapy school. Previous hospital experience preferred.

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION:

Current licensure in the state of applicable state. CPR certification in Basic Life Support, Level C.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.
• Following hospital policies and procedures.
• Following departmental policies and procedures.
• Contributing to the overall quality of services.
• Assuming responsibility for keeping informed about changes in policies and procedures.
• Provides patient care assessment and treatment.
• Ensures patient evaluations and treatments are comprehensive, functional, and according to the standard of practice.
• Provides sound professional judgment in interpreting the evaluation results and establishing an acceptable treatment plan with realistic goals.
• Encourages patients and significant others in setting goals.
• Recognizes and responds to changes in the patient's physiologic state.
• Recommends next level of care.
• Ensures quality patient outcomes.
• Supervises support staff assisting with patient care by providing direction and feedback.
• Maintains accurate documentation.
• Completes written patent evaluations, progress notes, and discharge notes per policy.
• Ensures accurate and timely documentation of patient/family education, charges and departmental statistics, and ICD-10 codes as appropriate.
• Maintains patient records in a systematic order and documentation is legible.
• Ensures that documentation is legible.
• Meets department financial and productivity standards.
• Understands the budgeted expectation.
• Maintains productivity standards.
• Adjusts individual schedules to meet the needs of the patient and department.
• Participates in process management to optimize quality and efficiency of services.
• Identifies quality and operational opportunities.
• Participates in process management and communicates progress and barriers to supervisor.
• Researches and suggests evidence based best practices to improve quality of patient care.
• Promotes professional development and education of other health care workers and provides representation on committees.
• Conducts in-service training programs to provide state-of-the-art information to health care workers and enhances safety.
• Changes/developments in the profession locally, at the state level, and nationally are understood.
• Shares clinical expertise with other therapists, student affiliates, and other health care professionals.
• Communicates effectively.
• Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients, physicians, staff, and all external customers.
• Responds to questions by staff.
• Promotes an open atmosphere of communication.
• Shares information learned from seminars.
• Informs supervisor of issues and resolutions to potential problems.
• Communicates information with patient and family and ensures understanding.
• Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines.
• Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patients served.
• Utilizes knowledge of age/developmentally specific data when assessing patients.
• Interprets age/developmentally specific response to treatment/activity accurately.
• Maintains competence related to age/developmentally specific patient care by regularly updating knowledge of growth and development and the aging process.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

Able to communicate on a professional level with physicians, nurses, and other health care providers and provide quality care for patients. Able to communicate with patients of all age groups and significant others appropriate to the level of comprehension. Has knowledge, clinical skills, and understanding of the patient throughout the entire span of life.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Subject to stress conditions. Moderate noise environment. Clean, well-lit comfortable climate; however occasional conditions with high moisture content. Frequent exposure to bloodborne pathogens and airborne pathogens, may be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases. Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances. May make home visits. Exposure to unpleasant patient elements, body fluids. Subject to electro-mechanical hazards. Exposure to chemicals used in cleaning. Occasionally handles emergency or crises situations. Required personal protective equipment eye protection, face protections, gown, mask, lab coat and sterile and non-sterile gloves, shoe covers.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

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• Standing
• Walking
• Sitting
• Bending
• Reaching with arms
• Finger and hand dexterity
• Talking
• Hearing
• Seeing
• Lifting, carrying, pushing and or pulling:
• 20 lbs. maximum
• 50 lbs. maximum
• 100 lbs. maximum

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including: Compensation Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job Incentive pay for select positions Opportunity for annual increases based on performance Benefits and more Paid Time Off programs Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs Educational Assistance Program Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

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