Occupational Therapist

TRAVEL Inpatient/Hospital Occupational Therapist needed for the below!

Location: Hattiesburg, MS

This is a TRAVEL OT POSITION which means must live 51 miles outside of Hattiesburg to qualify for position.

Taxed Hourly: $28 - $30

Untaxed Weekly Travel Stipend: $1,242

Gross Weekly: $2,366 to $2446

Duties:

• The Seasonal Occupational Therapist (OT) is responsible for the implementation of the physician's order for Occupational Therapy services. The Seasonal Occupational Therapist should provide all necessary aspects of Occupational Therapy within an interdisciplinary environment in order to facilitate the return of the patient to as independent and as safe of a lifestyle as possible. The Seasonal Occupational Therapist must utilize a growth and development knowledge base in the care of children (pediatric), adolescent, and geriatric patients. The Seasonal OT demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served and also demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development. The Seasonal OT possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interprets the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age specific needs, and to provide the care needed.

Skills:

• Able to perform patient evaluations with use of appropriate functional tests/measures and demonstrates the ability to assimilate objective measures along with social factors, medical stability, activity restrictions, participation limitations or other relative comorbidities to determine functional deficits and construct short term goals, long term goals and patient/family goals with an appropriate frequency and duration in order to establish the therapy diagnosis and appropriate plan of care
• Demonstrate the ability to tolerate physically demanding tasks of moving equipment and patients utilizing safety measures for self and patients per the physical and environmental demands specified below
• Demonstrates proper and secure documentation in the Electronic Medical Record
• Demonstrates the ability to use critical thinking with patient evaluation and treatment planning
• Demonstrates understanding of moist heat, paraffin, and other physical agent modalities commonly used as they apply to each area of practice
• Demonstrates understanding of the cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal, nervous and integumentary system utilizing age-specific patient care indicators as it relates to each structure and system in the provision of care
• Appropriately identifies learning needs of patient or family members
• Works as a team member to assist patient/family at all points of entry into the acute therapy care system and along the continuum of care as appropriate
• This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the Seasonal OT will also perform other reasonably related job duties as assigned.
• Mental Demands: Must interpret and follow physician's orders, cooperate with co-workers and leadership, be responsive to patient needs and demands and demonstrate initiative towards completion of treatment Physical Demands: Constant walking, balancing, standing, turning, reaching, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, handling, hand and finger movements, wrist movements, sensory discrimination. Frequent stooping, crouching, sitting. Frequent stooping, crouching, sitting. Occasional running, climbing, kneeling. Rarely crawling, throwing. Must be able to use visual acuity for close paperwork, color vision, depth perception. Hearing acuity for conversation, monitoring equipment, telephone, transcription, background noise.
• Must be able to lift, handle, push, pull up to 50 pounds
• Must be able to operate blood pressure machines, pulse oximetry, wheelchairs, walkers and other pertinent assistive devices.

Education:

• The candidate must be a graduate of an approved four-year bachelor's degree and provide proof of 2 hours of CVA specific continuing education within the recent four (4) months.
• Work Experience: Minimum of one of the following as a Licensed Occupational Therapist -1 year of full-time acute care specific experience or 2 years of skilled nursing/inpatient rehab facility experience or 2 years of acute care specific experience, when in the context of working less than full time hours in this area of practice

License and Certs:

• BLS (CPR)
• Physical Therapy License Mississippi