Job Responsibilities:
-Performs evaluation procedures to determine patients’ performance capacities and deficits such as functional, cognitive, visual and perceptual abilities.
-Analyzes evaluation test results to determine a plan of care to include appropriate interventions, goals, expected intensity, duration of therapy, and recommendations for discharge.
-Provides education to patient and caregiver regarding purpose of activity, use of equipment, home exercise and activity.
Required Skills & Experience:
-Eighteen (18) months experience as an Occupational Therapist in an acute healthcare system environment.
-Experience with a range of diagnoses including general medicine, orthopedics, neurology, and cardiopulmonary.
-Acute Rehabilitation Unit: Demonstrates competency in Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Quality Reporting Program (IRF QRP).
Required Certifications & Licensure:
-Completes mandatory stroke specific education requirements for certification.
-Current licensure as an Occupational Therapist in the State of California.
-Current BLS Certification.