OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT
Part Time • DOWNTOWN HOUSTON
Job description
- Facilitates development and rehabilitation of patients with mental, emotional, and physical disabilities by planning and administering medically prescribed occupational therapy.
- Meets the patient’s goals and needs and provides quality care by assessing and interpreting evaluations and test results and determining occupational therapy treatment plans in consultation with physicians or by prescription.
- Helps patient develop or regain physical or mental functioning or adjust to disabilities.
- Implements programs involving manual arts and crafts, practice in functional, pre-vocational, vocational and homemaking skills and fosters activities of daily living.
- Promotes maximum independence by selecting and constructing therapies according to individual’s physical capacity, intelligence level, and interest.
- Prepares patient for return to employment by consulting with employers; determining potential employee difficulties; retraining employees; and helping employers understand necessary physical and job accommodations.
- Evaluates results of occupational therapy by observing, noting, and evaluating patient’s progress and recommending and implementing adjustments and modifications.
- Completes discharge planning by consulting with physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health care workers.
- Assures continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge by designing and instructing patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs, recommending and/or providing assistive equipment and recommending outpatient or home health follow-up programs.
- Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
- Maintains patient confidence and protects hospital operations by keeping information confidential.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
Compensation: $50.00 - $60.00 per hour
Caregivers are at the heart of what we do
Are you a kind, caring individual who wants to make a difference in the life of a senior? We’re more than just home care, we provide companionship and dependability.
You love people. You put others' needs first.
You live by our purpose of Making Lives Better®
Our caregivers are our lifeblood. We wouldn’t be able to make a million lives better if it weren’t for the incredible people working together with a shared passion and purpose. It’s how we help our clients stay happier and healthier.
Our People Promise:
You love coming to work.
You are treated with kindness, and have found belonging at Nurse Next Door. You have strong relationships with your clients, your coworkers and your leader. You are committed to your job, and have flexibility in how you manage your time. You see the possibility of Caregiving as a career, and your leader is helping you achieve this.
You are appreciated for the work you put in, and given the freedom to care for your clients the way you would care for your mom or dad. You feel engaged and want to make lives better — and you’re having fun along the way.
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