Occupational Therapist - Home Health Professional

Job Summary:
CenterWell Home Health is seeking a skilled Occupational Therapist to join our team. As an Occupational Therapist, you will assess and develop therapeutic programs tailored to patients' daily living and work-related skills. You will administer diagnostic tests, collaborate with healthcare teams to revise treatment plans, and provide comprehensive therapy in patients' homes.

About the Role:
You will educate patients and their families while supervising support staff in implementing occupational therapy services. Your role also involves coordinating/overseeing/supervising/instructing and evaluating Occupational Therapy Assistant and Home Health Aide performance in implementing occupational therapy services. Accurately and thoroughly document patients' care observations, interventions, and evaluation on the day services are rendered.

Responsibilities:
- Assess/screen patient's daily living/work-related skills and develop therapeutic retraining programs with measurable objectives. Administer and interpret diagnostic and prognostic tests of function to patients in their homes or other settings to assist the physician in evaluating the patient's level of function.
- Confer with the patient's physician and other health care team members and participate in development/revision of the Plan of Care Treatment.
- Provide therapeutic treatment and instruction to patients in accordance with physician orders to improve/restore strength, coordination, range-of-motion and function or teach compensation measures.
- Review/expand the retraining programs in a manner consistent with the behavioral goals of each patient and within the guidelines of the rehabilitation program as a whole.
- Consult with other vocational team members, as appropriate, to develop and implement vocationally oriented plans consistent with the needs and capabilities of patients.
- Report patient status and progress to the physician, rehabilitation staff, Clinical Manager, patient and family members.
- Participate in care coordination and discharge planning activities and act as a resource to other health care personnel in meeting patient's needs.
- Design community reintegration activities to assist the client in the physical reconditioning effort, and/or the psychological adjustment and coordinate the plan with members of the interdisciplinary team.
- Recommend and/or design special adaptive equipment for clients to improve residence or working environments or improve their participation in the rehabilitation program and/or community.
- Design/train staff and family members to carry out the retraining program including dressing, feeding, grooming and hygiene skills, participate in team and family educational meetings.