Occupational Therapist
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Job Description
Overview
CHI St. Josephs Health of Park Rapids part of CommonSpirit Health is an award-winning 25-bed critical access hospital located in the heart of lake country. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission we offer a full range of services including 24/7/365 Emergency Department and Level IV Trauma Center hospitalist program testing surgery orthopedics rehabilitation and more so that you can experience better health.
Responsibilities
As a Occupational Therapist at CHI St. Josephs Health now part of CommonSpirit Health formed between Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health youll help our patients regain their independence and quality of life so they can safely go about their daily activities.
Youll provide rehabilitative services to primarily pediatric patients with mental physical emotional or developmental impairments as well as occasional adult patients. Occupational therapists use treatments to develop recover or maintain the daily living and work skills of their patients. Youll see a variety of patients daily with issues in several areas including orthopedic neurological sensory and cancer recovery to name a few. Youll evaluate and re-evaluate patients and provide physicians with updates on improvements to the patients daily life. Youre truly the bridge between physical therapy and speech therapy.
To thrive in this role you must be flexible and adaptable. Youll care for all patient populations presenting with a variety of conditions. You need to be extremely organized and efficient. Youll see many patients each workday and will be required to document all evaluations treatments and status changes. Most importantly you must be positive personable and motivating. While the entire care team works to treat illnesses and injuries therapists truly motivate patients to get active and get better. It can be a long road for some patients and a therapist who remains upbeat and energetic can make all the difference.
What youll do...
- Demonstrates competence with clinical skills necessary to provide care appropriately to all the patient groups served by the occupational therapy service.
- Performs evaluations/assessments develops re-evaluates and adjusts the Plan of Care for each individual.
- Provides treatments as included in POC .
- Provides instruction in/demonstration of equipment treatments disease process self-care and exercises to patients family and staff.
- Provides timely and accurate documentation of services provided in the medical record per policy.
- Communicates with medical nursing and other Rehab staff.
- Staff will strive to provide service to patients or clients by filling our service promise of Kind Compassionate Care Every Person Every Time.
- Staff will maintain an awareness of overall safety in regards for all athletes patients and clients.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
Incentives: $15000 Sign-on Bonus and Relocation Assistance.
Qualifications
- Graduate of Occupational Therapy program from an accredited institution.
- Occupational Therapy License (OT:MN)
- New grads welcome!
Preferred
- One (1) to three (3) years experience.
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