Occupational Therapist / HandTherapist

Job Summary:

• Assesses, plans, organizes, and administers rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury.

General Accountabilities:

• Performs and documents an initial exam, evaluating findings to identify problems and determine a treatment plan prior to intervention.
• Plans, prepares, or carries out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
• Records prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enters information into computer.
• Identifies and documents goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.
• Administers manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
• Evaluates effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
• Tests and measures patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
• Instructs patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
• Confers with the patient, medical practitioners, or other appropriate parties to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
• Reviews physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and occupational therapy treatment required.
• Complies with professional, ethical, and legal standards.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• LICENSED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
• 1-3 YEARS OUTPATIENT ORTHOPEDIC OR HAND THERAPY EXPERIENCE PREFERRED
• CUSTOM ORTHOSIS/SPLINT FABRICATION EXPERIENCE
• KNOWLEDGE OF POST-OPERATIVE REHAB PROTOCALS
• EXPERIENCE TREATING: TENDON REPAIRS, FRACTURES, NERVE INJURIES, RSI, CRUSH INJURIES, AND POST-SURGICAL UPPER EXTREMITY CONDITIONS
• EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS
• EXCELLENT KNOWLEDGE OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
• PASSION FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE