Occupational Therapist
Work Schedule: 8:30am -5:00pm
Salary: Negotiable based on skills sets, experience, and willingness to excel
Start Date: Immediate
Supervisors: Jeff Wilbur OTL, CSCS
David Cowan, PhD.
Job Description:
Work as part of a trans-disciplinary team to provide behavioral, cognitive, social and functional rehabilitation to individuals diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. A core function of this role is the assessment, treatment, and monitoring of cognitive impairments and disruptive behaviors limiting the functional independence of patients, with a goal of reclaiming or re-building autonomy, self-determination, purpose, and independence.
Duties:
Qualifications:
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Work Schedule: 8:30am -5:00pm
Salary: Negotiable based on skills sets, experience, and willingness to excel
Start Date: Immediate
Supervisors: Jeff Wilbur OTL, CSCS
David Cowan, PhD.
Job Description:
Work as part of a trans-disciplinary team to provide behavioral, cognitive, social and functional rehabilitation to individuals diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. A core function of this role is the assessment, treatment, and monitoring of cognitive impairments and disruptive behaviors limiting the functional independence of patients, with a goal of reclaiming or re-building autonomy, self-determination, purpose, and independence.
Duties:
- Assess, review records, generate individual treatment plans and implement clinical interventions individually and as part of a trans-disciplinary team
- Guides and instructs the client in prescribed therapeutic self-care and creative activities that are directed toward improving Independence and physical and mental functioning
- Develop and maintain new rehabilitative programming
- Compile daily/weekly schedules for each client
- Utilize and manage rehab counselors, facilitators, and job coaches
- Perform clinical and behavioral interventions
- Simulate various situations and conditions to test client behavioral appropriateness
- Develop module/program specific goals/objectives for each client
- Generate daily/monthly reports based on the progress of each client in a timely manner
- Participate in daily programming and clinical meetings
- Administer formal assessments to clients
- Work in conjunction with psychotherapists, COTAs and SLPs to meld behavioral deficits with functional therapies
- Maintain internal communication with LSV therapists and staff as well as with external case managers, families and physicians
- Participate in staff development activities and in-services designed to optimize patient care
Qualifications:
- M.S. in Occupational Therapy
- Must be licensed by the state of Michigan
- BLS certification a plus
- Experience in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) preferred
- Demonstrates ingenuity and creativity in treatment
- Demonstrates high level of initiative
- Demonstrates high level of independent judgment, decision making, and problem solving ability
- Exhibit ability to work independently and as part of a trans-disciplinary team
- Demonstrate accuracy, efficiency and urgency documenting all clinical notes
- Possesses positive attitude and a high level of interpersonal skills
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