Occupational Therapist (OT) Job

Occupational Therapist (OT) Job – East Lansing, MI 165092

Why You'll Love This Job

Take your OT career in an exciting, new direction when you join the FYZICAL family as an Occupational Therapist (OT) at our East Lansing, MI, location! Full and part-time positions available.

As part of a champion team, you will be instrumental in making a lasting impact throughout the occupational and physical therapy industries as you collaborate with professionals, developing individualized treatment plans that will help clients achieve their goals of leading healthy, fulfilling lives. With a specialized team behind you providing support, state-of-the-art technology at your fingertips, and access to unparalleled continuing education, you will be able to advance your skills, keeping your career on the leading edge.

This is your chance to make life-changing differences in the lives of clients who are recovering from various neurological disorders. This respected Occupational Therapist position places you on a team of noted clinicians who are capable of achieving next-level results. With a practice leader who is invested in you and the freedom to innovate, you will be able to make a lasting impact that echoes throughout the industry. State-of-the-art technology and unparalleled continuing education will advance your skills and understanding of physical therapy. Cutting-edge tools, like FYZICAL’s rail system, give your clients the confidence to move forward and will keep your career on the leading edge, too!

As an Occupational Therapist with us, you will provide skilled evaluation and treatment for adults and children to help them achieve independent and functional activities of daily living. Plus, as part of the FYZICAL family, you can take advantage of advancement opportunities and grow your career under a practice leader who is fully invested in you.

Occupational Therapists at FYZICAL provide direct OT therapy services as part of a multidisciplinary team with Physical Therapists and Speech and Pathology Therapists and serves patients at our three locations in East Lansing, Dewitt and Lansing. The OT demonstrates competency in screening, evaluation, planning, and habilitative/rehabilitative treatment to infants, children, adolescents and adults with physical, sensory, or cognitive problems. Provides clinical care activities utilizing evidenced-based practice. Able to understand, document, and react effectively to the age specific needs unique to assigned patients.

Responsibilities

• Direct occupational therapy services as part of a multidisciplinary team including SLP and PT
• Screening, evaluation, planning, and habilitative/rehabilitative treatment to infants, children, adolescents and adults with physical, sensory or cognitive problems
• Create individualized treatment plans based on client assessment
• Provide clinical care activities utilizing evidenced-based practice
• Understand, document, and react effectively to the age-specific needs unique to assigned patients
• Make recommendations for advancement based on home/job evaluations
• Ensure clients are properly trained on safely using home and work equipment
• Provide guidance to any outside client parents, families and caregivers on ways they can assist
• Assist clients with ways to properly and safely carry out day-to-day activities
• Customized one-on-one treatment programs to improve patient's functional abilities
• Comprehensive home site evaluations with improvement recommendations
• Educate patients on how to properly use home and work equipment in a safe and efficient manner
• Guide and discuss with individuals working or living with patients on how they can help
• Help patients better perform activities of daily living
• Demonstrate respect for patients, parents, center staff, and members of the community
• Demonstrate a record of initiative, self-direction, program development, organization, and independence
  
  

Skills & Qualifications

• Holds OT license in Michigan or license eligible
• Accredited OT program graduate
• At least 1 year(s) Occupational Therapy experience with pediatric experience preferred
• Must possess the following skills: communication, interpersonal, writing
• Exhibits excellent interpersonal, time management, documentation, and communication skills
• Ability to meet the physical demands of a practicing pediatric therapist including: stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling
• Must be willing to see patients at any of our three locations
• Able and willing to create and implement outpatient balance and vestibular rehabilitation-setting treatment plans
• Ability to work efficiently/effectively in an autonomous environment
• Must be passionate about helping adult and pediatric patients who have vestibular, balance, neurological, and fall risk issues
• Must be self-motivated with a willingness to learn
  
  

Apply today to join the team at one of the many independently owned and operated FYZICAL franchise locations across the nation. Members of the FYZICAL Family radiate excitement and enthusiasm for the future because our franchise model is transforming an industry dominated by hospitals and corporations. From all across the nation—in large cities, rural communities, and small towns— FYZICAL teams are achieving amazing results for their patients and careers.