• Prepares work schedules, assigns personnel, evaluates work performance and makes recommendations for personnel actions.
• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
• Assists in developing departmental budgets.
• Prepares written documentation as required by the profession and the department.
• Ensures the delivery of quality occupational therapy services for inpatients and outpatients by identifying patient needs and developing quality occupational therapy programs.
• Consults with medical, nursing and administrative staff on a regular basis to coordinate patient care.
• Assists in training occupational therapy students.
• Communicates observations, facts and comments with interdisciplinary team members, individually, and through team meeting presentations as is appropriate.
• Conducts internal training programs for medical and nursing staff on occupational therapy techniques and objectives.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, workshops, and in-service meetings, etc.
• Develops treatment plans for patients. Monitors progress and treatment level
• Maintains personnel, professional and institutional certification and regulatory requirements by attending conferences, committee meetings, personal development and attending outside educational programs.
• Prepares written documentation as required by the profession and the department, such as evaluation results, individualized treatment plans, progress reports, and other such reports.
• Performs duties of an Occupational Therapist as required.
• Prepares written documentation as required by the profession and the department, such as evaluation results, individualized treatment plans, progress reports, and other such reports.
• Performs assessment of the swing bed patient’s individual interests and needs.
• Will monitor and over see participation in the activities by activity staff.

• Registered Occupational Therapist.
• License and registration as required in the State Of Louisiana.
• Previous experience as a staff occupational therapist, preferred

Department: 087 - OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
This is a prn position