Job Details

Attention home health OT's in Metro Phoenix: Seeking a skilled and compassionate Occupational Therapist to join our growing team! If you have a driving ambition to be the best, want to be rewarded, recognized and appreciated for your hard work, and you want to make a positive impact on people's lives, then look no further! Seeking a committed and patient-focused Occupational Therapist to develop, recover or maintain the daily living and work skills of people with physical, mental or developmental conditions. You will offer effective and client-centered services that will enable people to confidently and independently carry out everyday tasks or activities. This is a PRN position that can turn into a full-time position with benefits.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled occupational therapy service to patients in their homes, in accordance with physician's orders.
• Conduct initial and ongoing comprehensive assessments of the patient's needs, including OASIS assessments.
• Select and adapt the appropriate per case occupational therapy treatment model, method and approach to direct the process of interventions.
• Establish goals, based on the patient's current level of functioning, and potential for improvement and perform re-evaluations, as indicated.
• Apply interventions to maximize safety and performance in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL).
• Communicate with the physician, on a regular basis, regarding patient's status, obtaining additional orders, if necessary.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of occupational therapy intervention and update the patient care plan, as needed.
• Teach clients new ways of approaching tasks and educate them on how to break down activities into achievable components.
• Assess client`s home and other environments and advice on alterations consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Recommend adaptive equipment and train in its use.
• Guide and educate family members and caregivers.
• Observe, note, and report on progress of long and short-term treatment goals.
• Collect data and document processes followed.
• Follow-up with client on a regular basis.

Skills

• BS Degree or greater in Occupational Therapy
• Licensed in the State of Arizona as an Occupational Therapist
• Minimum one year work experience required
• Home health experience required (SNF and ALF experience does not count as home health experience)
• Familiarity with ADLs evaluation tools ( e.g. Katz ADL scale, Lawton IADL scale)
• Competency with electronic charting and use of mobile devices, such as tablet, mobile phone and/or laptop/PC
• Patient and compassionate with excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
• Current BLS certification required - Online certification is not accepted