What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Hand Therapist position at HOPCo?
Join our Team at Premier and the Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center!
Position: Certified Hand Therapist
Location:, Cherry Hill, NJ, and South Philadelphia (Navy Yard)
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
At Philadelphia Hand and Shoulder Center, we are dedicated to taking care of you so you can take care of business! Our robust benefits package includes the following:
What We Offer:
- Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy medical, vision, and dental plans, 100% employer-paid life insurance, and a generous 401(k) match.
- Work-Life Balance: Generous paid sick and vacation time, plus 7 paid holidays each year.
- Structured Work Hours: Embrace a steady work schedule that supports your lifestyle.
- Career Growth: Excellent opportunities for professional development and advancement.
- Employee Rewards: Participate in our employee referral reward program and celebrate your contributions.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Providing Excellent Patient Care: Provides patient care in accordance with established protocols and patient care guidelines.
- Documentation Standard: Responsible for timely documentation, including but not limited to daily notes, weekly workers compensation reports, progress reports, initial evaluations, discharge summaries, and incident reports.
- Scheduled Appointments: Responsible for assuring that patients are treated promptly in accordance with their scheduled appointments.
- Plans of Care: Responsible for conveying to patients the importance of complying with established plans of care, including home exercise programs and minimizing cancellations and no show of appointments.
- Referral Coordination: Consults with referring physicians as needed through documentation and as well as verbally.
- Professional Conduct: Responsible for always maintaining the highest standards of professional conduct that best represents the company.
- Fine/Gross Motor Skills: Coordinates participation in sensorimotor, educational, recreational, and motor activities designed to help patients or disabled persons develop or regain physical or mental functions or adjust to disabilities.
- Coordination with Team Members: Consults with other members of rehabilitation team to select activity program consistent with needs and capabilities of individual and to coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
- Rehabilitation to 100%: Selects constructive activities suited to individual’s physical capacity, intelligence level, and interest to upgrade individual to maximum independence, prepare individual for return to employment, assist in restoration of functions, and aid in adjustment to disability
Qualifications:
- Licensed as an Occupational Therapist, or eligible to be a licensed as Occupational Therapist in the state of Pennsylvania required.
- Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) License required.
- Bachelor’s Degree (B.A) from a four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Previous experience as a Certified Hand Therapist highly desired.
