CareerNation is hiring Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants on a part-time, full-time, and per-diem basis for Assisted Living Facilities and Rehabilitation Centers in Northern California.
Shifts: Day, Evening, and Overnight
Pay: $34/hour - $40/hour
Occupational Therapy Assistant Job Responsibilities:
- Helps occupational therapy clients by providing rehabilitative services to persons with mental, physical, emotional, or developmental impairments.
- Provides services under the direction of licensed occupational therapist.
- Verifies client information by interviewing client, reviewing and recording medical history, confirming purpose of treatment.
- Helps clients improve their quality of life by helping them compensate for limitations, such as, helping injured workers improve their motor skills and re-enter the labor force, and teaching persons with learning disabilities to prepare meals or to use public transportation and increase their independence.
- Follows treatment plan developed in collaboration with occupational therapist by teaching techniques, such as, the proper method of moving from a bed into a wheelchair, and the best ways to stretch and limber muscles.
- Monitors activities to make sure they are performed correctly and provides encouragement, bringing treatment that is not having the intended effect to the attention of the therapist.
- Maintains patient occupational therapy records by recording client’s progress for use by the occupational therapist.
- Generates revenues by recording billing information of services rendered.
- Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
- Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock, placing orders, and verifying receipt.
- Keeps equipment operating by following operating instructions, troubleshooting breakdowns, maintaining supplies, performing preventive maintenance, and calling for repairs.
- Serves and protects the occupational therapy practice by adhering to professional standards, policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards.
- Enhances occupational therapy practice reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Occupational Therapy Assistant Qualifications / Skills:
- Documentation skills
- Scheduling
- Verbal communication
- Patient services
- Health care administration
- Hospital environment
- Teamwork
- Use of medical technologies
- Bedside manner
- Dependability
- Health promotion and maintenance
Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent, preferred
- Current licensure as Occupational Therapy Assistant in California and/or nationally certified
- Current CPR certification