Occupational Therapy Asst Pool
Location: Birmingham Alabama
Description: HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION is hiring Occupational Therapy Asst Pool right now, this vacancy will be placed in Alabama. Detailed specification about this vacancy opportunity please give attention to these descriptions. The
Occupational Therapist Assistant
provides occupational therapy treatment and patient care according to hospital, state, professional and federal regulat! ions and guidelines. To provide high quality care to our patients, we employ numerous professionals in “pool†or per diem roles to provide coverage during a temporary vacancy or vacations in our schedule.
In addition, the position:
- Requires effective communication skills for working with patients, families, and caregivers.
- Requires effective communication skills for departmental and interdepartmental relationships.
- Requires competency in occupational treatment.
- Performs occupational therapy treatment tasks as delegated by and supervised by occupational therapists.
- Maintains open and on-going communication with hospital departments to ensure patient, staff, and hospital needs are met.
Occupational Therapist Assistants
enjoy treating a broad clinical patient population and working with numerous other OT, PT and SLP therapists toward ! our common goal of providing the highest level of clinical car! e possible.
The
Occupational Therapist Assistant
creates an environment and culture that enables the hospital to fulfill its mission by providing patient safety and patient-centered treatment.
Who will you treat?
We are an acute rehabilitation hospital setting. Typically our therapist can expect to spend an average of 2-4 weeks with our patients treating a wide clinical caseload such as: stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, various neurological disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, amputation, joint replacement, fractures, multiple trauma, cardiac conditions, and pulmonary conditions. 80% of our patients are discharged directly home.
We use evidence-based
practice guidelines to treat our patients. We utilize our clinical outcomes to asses and improve our treatment interventions and programs. We participate in a national outcomes database, which provides benchmarks and sophisticated outcome report! s to help us continually analyze and improve our patient outcomes.
You will use
standard and advanced
therapy technologies- depending on hospital location, some equipment used such as Auto Ambulators, Bioness, Interactive Metronome, Hand Mentor, SmartStep, Anodyne, Wii and CAPs may be available.
Helping you
become a better therapist is critical to our success - You will be paired with mentors; attend in-house as well as external educational programs. The treatment team is made up of full time therapists, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and medical staff; a great way to learn beyond your own discipline.
Key words: Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant, Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant, OTA, COTA, PRN, Per Diem
Qualifications
Requirements:
- Must have current state license or certification; in states where licensing is not required, defer to state practice act
- CPR certification preferred unless otherwise required by hospital! policy
- Successful completion of an Associate's degree from an accredited Occupational Therapy Assistant program
- Good visual acuity and ability to communicate
- Ability to lift, lower, push, pull, and retrieve objects weighing a minimum of 30 pounds of medical supplies and equipment and the transferring and repositioning of patients. Reasonable assistance may be requested when lifting, pushing, and/or pulling are undertaken which exceeds these minimum requirements
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If you were eligible to this vacancy, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION.
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This vacancy starts available on: Fri, 24 May 2013 07:56:28 GMT