Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Occupational Therapist for a job in West Los Angeles, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Occupational Therapist
- Discipline: Therapy
- Duration: Ongoing
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days
- Employment Type: Staff
Job Summary:
Responsible for the occupational therapy of patients under the direction and supervision of the Rehabilitation Services.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Evaluates patients, interprets evaluation findings to determine the nature and extent of dysfunction.
- Establishes treatment goals and plans treatment to achieve established goals.
- Initiates discharge planning for occupational therapy.
- Implements the treatment program through direct treatment of the patient.
- May delegate a portion of the treatment program to the appropriate supportive personnel.
- Coordinates the treatment program with other health care personnel as appropriate.
- Provides advice and education to patient and family.
- Regularly assesses clinical signs and symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patient towards goals, the need for modifying goals and treatment.
- Discharges patient from occupational therapy when the patient has received maximum benefit from occupational therapy.
- Provides accurate, timely documentation of occupational therapy patient management.
- Demonstrates progress toward meeting the criteria for professional practice.
Basic Qualifications:Experience
Education
- Graduate of an accredited occupational therapy curriculum with a Bachelors or Masters degree with certification in occupational therapy or foreign-trained equivalent.
License, Certification, Registration
- Basic Life Support required at hire from American Heart Association
- National Provider Identifier required at hire
Additional Requirements:
- Current CA Occupational Therapy License OR License eligibility letter prior to the first day of employment.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:Notes:
- Inpt/outpt mix; neuro, group ther, Bedside and Video swallow trained preferred. weekday sched. . Consistent saturdays
Kaiser Permanente Job ID #1326663. Posted job title: Occupational Therapist
About Kaiser Permanente
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