Occupational Therapist Sr

GENERAL SUMMARY:

In collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, provides therapeutic services including evaluation, treatment, and education. The Senior OT works closely with the Supervisor and Clerical Coordinator of the area to achieve the highest level of performance for the staff and compliance with Joint Commission and other regulatory agency requirements.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

1. Evaluation and treatment of patients.

2. Assists the Supervisor to monitor staff competence, clinical performance, organize clinic in-services, and support staff education.

3. Assists the Supervisor with hiring, orienting, delegating and organizing the work of co-workers and staff.

4. Monitors treatment cost and financial support as they relate to quality and efficiency.

5. Monitors productivity on a continuous basis.

6. Assists with PI projects.

7. Directly monitors and supports the clinic’s technical aide coverage and activities.

8. Demonstrate knowledge of growth/development/dynamics behavior of various age group population and is able to perform assessments/treatments appropriately

This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

A. Education / Training:

· Graduate from an approved OT school.

· Master degree preferred.

B. Work Experience:

· At least 2 years of clinical experience with a varied patient population.

C. Certification, Licensure, Registration:

· License in the state of Michigan is required.

· BLS Certification required.

D. Other Qualifications:

· Requires high degree of organizational skills.

· Expected to meet deadlines and budgetary expectation.

· General health and stress coping ability.

· Highly efficient demonstrated by meeting and exceeding the productivity expectation of the clinic.

· Exhibits good clinical skills.

· Behavioral attributes include attention to detail ability to communicate effectively; demonstrates customer focus.

· Exhibit decision-makng /problem solving skills flexibility ability to plan/prioritize and set goals.

· Manage relationship among employees and demonstrates leadership in team building.

· Delegates effectively and monitors performance of others.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

A. Physical Effort:

· Position requires ability to frequently push/pull up to 100 lb. objects such as when setting up the BIODEX/KINCOM or other equipment or positioning patient; ability to support/assist with a person’s body weight when assisting the therapist with transfers or gait training.

· Position requires ability to lift objects more than 100 lbs. with others, constantly lift objects up to 20 lbs. and frequently lift up to 40 lbs.

· Position requires incumbent to constantly perform simple motor skills such as standing, walking and simple manipulative skills such as writing.

· Position requires incumbent to frequently perform moderately difficult manipulative skills such as positioning patients and/or difficult manipulative skills such as equipment set up, use and/or calibration.

· Position requires incumbent to constantly perform gross body coordination such as walking, stooping, and/or assisting with patient transfers. Frequently perform tasks which require hand-eye coordination such as assisting patients to lab and tasks which require arm-hand steadiness such as taking blood pressures and/or equipment calibration or set up.

· Positions requires incumbent to constantly walk and stand; occasionally sit for prolonged periods and/or remain in an uncomfortable position for long periods, frequently bend such as when setting up patients and/or equipment.

· Positions requires incumbent to constantly see objects closely as in reading equipment settings/controls and/or occasionally discriminate colors as in equipment warning lights.

· Positions requires incumbent to constantly be able to hear normal sound with some background noise as in answering the telephone, respond to an intercom and/or communicating in areas where multiple treatment sessions are being conducted and be able to distinguish sound as in equipment alarms.

B. Work Environment:

· Occasionally exposed to electro-magnetic radiations as in VDTs.

· Occasionally exposed to hazardous material other than blood, body tissues, or fluids, dust, toxins, cytotoxions, chemical hazardous materials, bodily injuries, loud and/or unpleasant noises, high humidity, electrical hazards, or poisonous substances.

· Seldom exposed to blood, body tissue, or fluids.

* Beaumont Health grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.