Job Description: Occupational Therapist

Immediate Supervisor Title:  Regional Therapy Manager

Position Expectations: Our Occupational Therapists are registered professionals who provide coordinated care to patients and their families. Plans, implements and evaluates patient care plans to restore or maintain patient wellbeing. Evaluates occupational roles and occupational performance of patients with physical, psycho-social and/or cognitive impairments. Provides intervention to deficits and elicits responses. Collaborates with interdisciplinary team.

The Company:

Where children matter most! A provider of home healthcare services, Texas Kids Home Therapy, a Pediatric Home Healthcare company is a Pediatric Therapy and Skilled Private Duty Nursing Agency. We value children’s well-being and are guided by our ethical and moral standards in every detail of our business. We demonstrate this through our continual transparent communication with the families of our patients and our commitment to hiring benevolent and hard-working employees in both the field and office.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelors’ Degree or higher in Occupational Therapy.
• Licensure: Current Texas State License as an Occupational Therapist. A military spouse may engage in the practice of occupational therapy without obtaining the applicable occupational therapy license if the military spouse is currently licensed in good standing by another jurisdiction of the U.S. that has licensing requirements that are substantially equivalent to the requirements for the license in this state. Current driver license.
• Experience: One-year experience as a Pediatric Occupational Therapist preferred.
• Skills: Therapy skills as defined as generally accepted standards of practice. Good interpersonal skills. Knowledge of durable medical equipment.
• Transportation: Reliable transportation and valid auto liability insurance.

Duties:

• Perform clinical assessment; identifies patient needs and appropriateness of patient.
• Document, prepare/revises and completes a Plan of Care, progress notes, phone orders and other clinical record documentation on an ongoing basis.
• Accept clinical assignments that are consistent with education and competence to care for patients.
• Apply concepts of infection control and standard precautions in coordinating/performing patient care activities to prevent contamination and transmission of disease.
• Assess and facilitate through direct therapeutic intervention patient’s ROM, strength, coordination, need for and use of adaptive equipment and environmental modifications, functional mobility and safety issues as related to patient’s ADL performance needs. Fabricate and maintain adaptive equipment and hand splints.
• Uses effective interpersonal relations and communication skills; facilitates the use of these skills by other team members to achieve desirable outcomes.
• Evaluate patient occupational performance in the areas of play, self-care, and rest. Assess sensory, motor, neuromuscular, psycho-social and cognitive-perceptual components of occupational behavior. Assess physical, social and cultural components of the patient’s environment.
• Meet mandatory continuing education requirements of the agency/licensing board.
• Demonstrate commitment, professional growth and competency.
• Promote Agency philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.

System Skills

• Proficient computer skills including Microsoft Office experience.

Perks:

• $2000 sign-on bonus for full-time employees
• Competitive wages with weekly pay
• Flexible hours/schedule
• Elite therapy program which includes:
  • Annual stipend for CEUs and testing materials
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible Spending account
  • 401K
  • Short-term disability
  • Supplemental Life/AD&D
  • Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
  • Vacation accrual
• Uncapped referral bonus
• Monthly Productivity payout

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