Job Details

An Occupational Therapy Assistant, or Occupational Therapist Assistant, supports the Occupational Therapist in conducting therapy treatments to improve patients' mobility and physical health. Their main duties include helping patients perform exercises or treatment plans, recording a patients' health progress and collecting patients' medical history or other personal information.

If the following job requirements and experience match your skills, please ensure you apply promptly.
Occupational Therapy Assistants are responsible for treating patients with therapeutic and self-care activities. The job requires candidates to perform a variety of duties including the following:
• Monitoring a patient's progress to make sure that they're successfully completing treatment
• Encouraging the patient during their recovery process
• Helping patients to improve their quality of life by finding solutions to their problems
• Helping injured employees improve their motor skills with the goal of re-entering the workforce
• Teaching patients with disabilities to become more independent
• Updating patient records for the Occupational Therapist
• Keeping the office, treatment room and equipment in good order
• Teaching patients, family members or other Caregivers skills and techniques to help with the patients' treatment program
ABOUT THE FACILITY
Advanced Care of St. Joseph is a busy 180 bed skilled nursing and post-acute rehabilitation facility with beautiful rehabiltition space including a spacious gym, functional ADL spaces and proximity to our skilled wing as well as an outdoor patio for therapy use. We have a wonderful and supportive nursing team who works closely with therapy and doctors to obtain services for our patients, and a fun, high energy in-house therapy team. We see a wide variety of cognitive, dietary and neurological diagnoses and both short term rehab patients as well as long term care residents. xywuqvp We are part of a newly formed healthcare company whose goal is to become the premier inpatient rehab provider in the communities we serve. Locally, we hope to build our long term care programming as well as continue providing fun, effective therapy for our short term rehab patients so they can return to home
Requirement description :
~1 years of OT experience - REQUIRED
~ LTC or Rehab Experience - Required
~ COTA license- Required

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS :
~ CPR

STATE LICENSE REQUIREMENTS :
~ Missouri

Weekend Requirements : TBD
On Call Requirements : None