Outpatient Occupational Therapist, Frazier Rehab Institute, Pediatric NeuroRecovery, PRN

Primary Location:

Frazier Rehab Institute - UMC

Address:

220 Abraham Flexner Way
Louisville, KY 40202


Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Job Description Summary:

• UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.
• With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.

Job Description:

Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• •Complete and maintain necessary records.
• •Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• •Train caregivers how to provide for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.
• •Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• •Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• •Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• •Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• •Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.
• •Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• •Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• •Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• •Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• •Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for externs, nurses and other medical staff.
• •Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• •Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.
• •Performs other duties as assigned.

Additional Job Description:

MINIMUM EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• •Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy required
• •Two (2) years’ experience in clinical setting, preferred