Registered OT

Must be a licensed Therapist who is a graduate of an ACOTE accredited school. Previous experience in a hospital or long-term care facility is preferred.

Registered OT – Essential Functions:

• Assures that Occupational Therapy Services facilitate optimal patient outcomes and also complies with the MDS procedures.
• Provides rehabilitation services to residents under specific medical orders and in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Care Plan Team.
• Assesses facility residents for OT needs at admission or when indicated to provide appropriate services.
• Coordinates admission/discharge to Occupational Therapy with the Interdisciplinary Team, Restorative Care Nurse and staff nurses.
• Evaluates outpatients referred by a state-approved referral source, notifies billing upon treatment.
• Writes a discharge plan summarizing status at discharge, with instructions for the resident and family.
• Assures the periodic review and revision of the Occupational Therapy treatment plan when appropriate.
• Communicates a resident’s functional status and needs to the resident, caregivers, and other appropriate professionals.
• Maintains good working relationships with other healthcare professionals and referral sources.
• Performs therapy or assigns resident to a Certified OT Assistant (COTA) , and communicates sufficient information about the treatment plan to nursing and other personnel to assure a team approach.
• Directly supervises the COTA in skilled tasks according to State Practice Acts, regulations, and company policies.
• Documents therapy services and writes progress notes in a timely manner.
• Helps select therapy staff for the facility, in consultation with the Director of Rehabilitation Services.
• Orients new therapy personnel and provides on-going inservice training for therapy assistants

Skills/Qualifications: Demonstrates clinical competence. Has superior communication, interpersonal, and supervisory skills, and effective organizational and time management skills. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, staff, and the general public. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratio, and percents and draw and interpret graphs. Ability to define problems, collect and analyze data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.