Occupational Therapist - Inpatient

Atrium Health; Macon (GA); On-site; USD 52,348 - 78,523; Full time

Job summary

Navicent Health Rehabilitation Hospital, an Atrium Health facility in Georgia, is seeking a full-time Occupational Therapist to join the Occupational Therapy department. The role involves performing patient evaluations, creating evidence-based treatment plans, and coordinating care to achieve meaningful outcomes.

Responsibilities include accurate documentation, adherence to department productivity standards, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in occupational therapy from an accredited program.
• Current state licensure; CPR BLS Level C.
• Hospital experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct patient assessments and develop treatment plans per standard practice.
• Maintain accurate documentation including evaluations, progress notes, and discharge summaries.
• Meet department productivity standards and adjust schedules as needed.
• Participate in process improvements to enhance quality and efficiency.
• Provide staff training and share clinical expertise with others.
• Communicate professionally with patients, families, and staff.
• Deliver age- and developmentally appropriate care.

Skills

Professional communication

Age group communication

Lifespan knowledge

Education

OT degree (B.S./M.S.)

Job description

Job Summary

Department: 37696 Navicent Health Rehabilitation Hospital - Occupational Therapy

Status: Full time

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Hours Per Week: 40

Schedule: 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 applicable state. CPR certification in Basic Life Support, Level C.

Essential Functions

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Maintains accurate documentation. Completes written patient 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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 crisis situations.
• Required personal protective equipment: eye protection, face protection, gown, mask, lab coat, and sterile and non-sterile gloves, shoe covers.

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

Provides comprehensive therapeutic patient care to ensure positive patient outcomes. Educates the patient, significant others, and other health care providers to assure continuity of the patient care plan. Interacts with other departments and members of the medical team in developing and implementing interdisciplinary patient care plans to ensure comprehensive medical care. Supervises occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant students to develop their clinical skills and ensure the delivery of quality patient care.