Occupational Therapist

Company:

OhioHealth at Home

Position Summary

At OhioHealth at Home Together with Compassus, the Home Health Occupational Therapist - PPV PRN is responsible for modeling the Compassus values of Compassion, Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork, and Innovation and for promoting the Compassus philosophy, using the 6 Pillars of Success as the foundation. S/he is responsible for upholding the Code of Ethical Conduct and for promoting positive working relationships within the company, among all departments, and all external stakeholders. The Home Health Occupational Therapist is responsible for providing quality rehabilitative occupational therapy to clients. S/he initiates planned, purposeful activity designed to enhance the physical and psychosocial functioning of the client.

Position Specific Responsibilities

• Participates in the development of occupational therapy plans of care for patients.
• Makes visits to the patients for assessment and evaluations and communicates with physician before start of care and as needed. Completes OASIS assessments as appropriate.
• Implements the plans of care.
• Provides education and instruction to team members, patients, and families.
• Evaluates outcomes of care.
• Supervises paraprofessionals as needed.
• Plans for discharge as appropriate.
• May participate in agency quality improvement programs.
• Ensures the growth and profitability of the company through the responsible use of company resources and educating the community to our services.
• Participates in regularly scheduled interdisciplinary team meeting to coordinate the care of the patient & family, exchange information & problem solve & receive staff support and education.
• Applies the policies & procedures of the agency and the rules and regulations of State and Federal regulatory agencies and other certified agencies in providing care.
• Willingly accepts direction from Director of Clinical Services or Director of Therapy.
• Meets or exceeds established productivity standards.
• Confers as needed with attending physician or other agency personnel regarding patient's condition and records information timely in patient's EMR.
• Completes all required documentation, visit notes, coordination notes, and other reports in a timely manner.
• Provide skilled restorative treatment to enhance physical function of joints/muscles, pain management, sensory integration, teaching compensatory techniques for ADL's; designing, fabricating, fitting of orthotic & self-help devices, vocational & pre-vocational assessment & training, work simplification & energy conservation, home evaluation for safety, joint protection, gross/fine apprehension patterns/free writing, upper extremity strength, muscle reeducation