Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network Jobs (2)

• JOB SUMMARY
• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental and physical capabilities.
• Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate those impaired because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.
• Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs and coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• 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.
• Supervise, train and assess therapy students during onsite clinical affiliations.
• ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• PATIENT / CUSTOMER
• Essential Accountabilities
• Ensures communication and collaboration with supervisors and fellow co-workers to serve patients and other customers to the best of his / her ability.
• Is professional in all actions and appearance
• Ensure compliance with regulatory parameters
• Uses resources wisely as if they were one’s own.
• Demonstrates understanding and ownership of how his / her role contributes to achieving the success of the Department and the Health System.
• Demonstrates a personal commitment to ensuring a clean and safe working environment.
• Anticipates patients’ / customers’ needs and acts accordingly.
• Works to enhance patient satisfaction
• Assist patients and families
• Analyzes problems from the customers’ point of view.
• Honors patient / customer / employee confidentiality.
• Seeks feedback on how to improve performance and offers constructive feedback, as well.
• Applies learning for improved performance.
• Presents self professionally & demonstrates professional behavior during interactions with others
• Strives to understand and value differences in others’ race, nationality, gender, age, background, experience, and style.
• Strives to understand and value differences in others’ race, nationality, gender, age, background, experience, and style.
• PATIENT / EMPLOYEE SAFETY ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Patient Care Providers
• Participates in Entity and Department wide initiatives for Patient / Employee safety
• Demonstrates an awareness of patient / employee safety when carrying out daily responsibilities of their position.
• Validation of annual competencies required for the position
• OPERATIONS
• Essential Accountabilities
• Therapy Examination
• Therapy Treatment Planning
• Therapy Treatment Implementation
• Applies the Principles of Logic & Scientific Method to the Practice of OT
• Full compliance with licensure requirements
• Ethical & Legal Practice Standards
• Therapy Documentation
• Compliance Audits-Total of 2 charts reviewed in a quarter by Site Manager or senior therapist. Done in 2 out of 4 quarters per year.
• Qualitative Chart Audit-At least 1 done per year
• Productivity Expectations
• Health System ID is worn in accordance to GSPP policy
• QUALIFICATIONS
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education
• Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Therapy required
• Master's Degree preferred
• Work Experience
• Previous healthcare experience preferred
• Licenses / Certifications
• Occupational Therapist license required
• Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required

PI218933415

• JOB SUMMARY
• Plan, prepare and carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain and prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
• Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
• Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
• Administer manual exercises, massage or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity.
• Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
• Confer with the patient, medical practitioners and appropriate others to plan, implement and assess the intervention program.
• Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
• Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
• Obtain patients' consent to proposed interventions.
• Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals
• Supervise, train and assess therapy students during onsite clinical affiliations.
• ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• PATIENT / CUSTOMER
• Essential Accountabilities
• Ensures communication and collaboration with supervisors and fellow co-workers to serve patients and other customers to the best of his / her ability.
• Is professional in all actions and appearance
• Ensure compliance with regulatory parameters
• Uses resources wisely as if they were one’s own.
• Demonstrates understanding and ownership of how his / her role contributes to achieving the success of the Department and the Health System.
• Demonstrates a personal commitment to ensuring a clean and safe working environment.
• Anticipates patients’ / customers’ needs and acts accordingly.
• Works to enhance patient satisfaction
• Assist patients and families
• Analyzes problems from the customers’ point of view.
• Honors patient / customer / employee confidentiality.
• Seeks feedback on how to improve performance and offers constructive feedback, as well.
• Applies learning for improved performance.
• Presents self professionally & demonstrates professional behavior during interactions with others
• Strives to understand and value differences in others’ race, nationality, gender, age, background, experience, and style.
• Non-Essential Accountabilities
• Clinical Education
• Serves as clinical instructor (after gaining one year of clinical experience & if student is available)
• Assists with clinical education of students if not the Primary CI
• Staff Education : Provides a formal presentation of evidenced-based information (i.e. in-service)
• Attendance at institutional in-services, staff meetings and / or continuing education programs
• PATIENT / EMPLOYEE SAFETY ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Patient Care Providers
• Participates in Entity and Department wide initiatives for Patient / Employee safety
• Demonstrates an awareness of patient / employee safety when carrying out daily responsibilities of their position.
• Validation of annual competencies required for the position
• OPERATIONS
• Essential Accountabilities
• Therapy Examination
• Therapy Treatment Planning
• Therapy Treatment Implementation
• Applies the Principles of Logic & Scientific Method to the Practice of PT
• Full compliance with licensure requirements
• Ethical & Legal Practice Standards
• Therapy Documentation-
• Compliance Audits-Total of 2 charts reviewed in a quarter by Site Manager or senior therapist. Done in 2 out of 4 quarters per year.
• Qualitative Chart Audit-At least 1 done per year
• Productivity Expectations
• Health System ID is worn in accordance to GSPP policy
• Non-essential Accountabilities
• CEQI (Clinical Effectiveness Quality Improvement)
• QUALIFICATIONS
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education
• Bachelor's Degree in Physical Therapy required
• Master's Degree preferred
• Work Experience
• Previous healthcare experience preferred
• Licenses / Certifications
• Physical Therapist license required
• Basic Life Support / CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required

PI218928815