11 Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant Jobs in Saint Joseph, MO
Talencia LLC is Hiring a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant Near Saint Joseph, MO
Job Description
Title :Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
Facility :Advanced Care of St. Joseph
Address :3002 N 18th St, St Joseph, MO 64505
Duration : 13 Weeks
Shift : 8hrs/day
Job Description An Occupational Therapy Assistant, or Occupational Therapist Assistant, supports the Occupational Therapist in conducting therapy treatments to improve patients mobility and physical health. Their main duties include helping patients perform exercises or treatment plans, recording a patients health progress and collecting patients medical history or other personal information.
Occupational Therapy Assistants are responsible for treating patients with therapeutic and self-care activities. The job requires candidates to perform a variety of duties including the following:
Monitoring a patients progress to make sure that theyre successfully completing treatment
Encouraging the patient during their recovery process
Helping patients to improve their quality of life by finding solutions to their problems
Helping injured employees improve their motor skills with the goal of re-entering the workforce
Teaching patients with disabilities to become more independent
Updating patient records for the Occupational Therapist
Keeping the office, treatment room and equipment in good order
Teaching patients, family members or other Caregivers skills and techniques to help with the patients treatment program
REQUIREMENTS
ABOUT THE FACILITY
Advanced Care of St. Joseph is a busy 180 bed skilled nursing and post-acute rehabilitation facility with beautiful rehabiltition space including a spacious gym, functional ADL spaces and proximity to our skilled wing as well as an outdoor patio for therapy use. We have a wonderful and supportive nursing team who works closely with therapy and doctors to obtain services for our patients, and a fun, high energy in-house therapy team. We see a wide variety of cognitive, dietary and neurological diagnoses and both short term rehab patients as well as long term care residents. We are part of a newly formed healthcare company whose goal is to become the premier inpatient rehab provider in the communities we serve. Locally, we hope to build our long term care programming as well as continue providing fun, effective therapy for our short term rehab patients so they can return to home.
Job Summary
Full Time
$55k-68k (estimate)
06/29/2024
07/12/2024
talencia.us
Cary, NC
<25
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The following is the career advancement route for Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant positions, which can be used as a reference in future career path planning. As a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant, it can be promoted into senior positions as an Occupational Therapy Supervisor that are expected to handle more key tasks, people in this role will get a higher salary paid than an ordinary Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant. You can explore the career advancement for a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant below and select your interested title to get hiring information.
