FT Occupational Therapist

   

Occupational Therapist - Full-time

• POLICIES AND PROCEDURES - Maintain established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, and quality assurance programs. 
• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops. 
• Maintains and adheres to the values outlined in the AOTA (American Occupational Therapy Association) code of ethics. 
• Evaluates and assesses functional and cognitive impairments using established standards and identifies appropriate intervention and therapy needs. 
• Promotes patient's independence by pursuing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.  
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; by following standards of care set governing agency regulations.  
• Establishes a clinical impression and patient problem list for patients with wide variety of injury or disease processes with appropriate indications/contraindications for treatment in order to implement and execute an appropriate individualized treatment plan. 
• Maintains plan of care, communicates regularly with COTA, and advances plan of care as appropriate. 
• Educates patients, family, and caregivers to plan of care, patient progress, and planning for discharge to include the development of a home management/exercise program. 
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.  
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with policies, procedures, rules, and regulations. 
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.  
• Documents patient care services in a timely manner by charting in patient and department records.  
• Maintains continuity among multidisciplinary teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.  
• Collaborates with the healthcare team, implementing and documenting individualized plans of care incorporating age specific considerations and nursing interventions, including discharge planning and patient/family teaching. 
• Contributes and participate in team huddles to identify barriers and obstacles and in support of realigning processes toward organizational and department goals. 
• Participates in the hiring, orientation, precepting, evaluation, and/or retention of co-workers.  
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.  

• Contacts are normally made with others within UNM-SRMC. 
• Contacts are frequently within the Department of Rehabilitation Services, but often outside of the department working in a multidisciplinary setting. 
• Contacts contain some discussion about confidential/sensitive matters. 
• Contacts are most often made face to face, but also include via the electronic medical record. 
• Contacts are 75% with patients and 25% with non-patients. 

• Must be able to use evaluative tools and measures to establish a patient's individual plan of care. 
• Must be able to set and manage goals for patient using a team approach for progression of goals and established plan of care.  
• Must be able to establish a personal and professional rapport with patients and others involved in patient’s care and in a position to understand care requirements. 
• Must be able to establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, family members, and friends. 
• Must be able to work in collaboration within the multidisciplinary healthcare team to assure continuity of care. 
• Must have working knowledge of patient care modalities; ie. ultrasound, electrical stimulation, and iontophoresis. 
• Must be able to communicate effectively (written and verbal) presenting data effectively. 

• The job requires the ability to collaborate with and supervise certified occupational therapy assistants and the oversight/supervision of the therapy technician. The position may also provide clinical instruction for OT and/or COTA students in clinical rotation. 

• Must pass a pre-employment criminal background check, reference checks and a post offer drug screen.  
• Must be employment eligible as verified by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Government Services Administration (GSA).  
• Tuberculin Skin Test required annually 
• Hospital required vaccinations 
• Hospital required competencies 

• Typical office and/or patient care, acute care hospital environment.  
• Must be able to travel locally between facilities and within the surrounding community.  
• Occasional exposure to minimal physical risk