Description
Job Summary:
Provides occupational therapy evaluation, management, and treatment services to patients referred by physician departments. Provides services in a manner that is consistent with the departments mission statement and responsive to unique needs of customers including favorable clinical outcomes, quality of service and access, and fiscal accountability.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Evaluates patients, families and home environment on admission to home health and subsequent home visits.
- Determines if home environment is safe and appropriate for provision of home health services.
- Demonstrates ability to interpret data about patients status.
- Assesses patients physical, functional and psychosocial status.
- Identifies problems accurately.
- Establishes reasonable/measurable goals.
- Develops and/or revises an appropriate plan of care.
- Communicates and coordinates plan of care with physician, patient, caregivers, and other health care providers.
- Implements care, as ordered.
- Determines whether other services such as nursing, PT, SLP, HCA or MSW are indicated.
- Establishes discharge planning in conjunction with the care planning process.
- Provides occupational therapy services as prescribed by patients physician and in compliance with Kaiser Permanente Home Health Agency standards, policies and procedures.
- Evaluates patient response to interventions.
- Recognizes and interprets significant physiological and behavioral changes in patients condition.
- Modifies/updates/changes plan of care when indicated by patients condition and/or physicians orders.
- Determines in conjunction with physician, when patient care needs to be shifted to another setting, e.g., hospital, clinic, emergency department, out-patient rehab, etc., and/or patient denial of home health, if warranted.
- Provides case management, as caseload assigned.
- Coordinates all necessary services to be provided to patients. Integrates all services into plan of care.
- Documents according to Home Health standards, Federal and State regulations.
- Maintains medication profile (as case manager) for all medications patient is taking.
- Documents communication in care planning/coordination.
- Assures the medical record is accurate, legible and complete.
- Completes accurate daily visit log.
- Submits documentation in timelines specified by Home Health standards, Federal and State regulations.
- Supervises care provided by Home Care Aide (HCA) and Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA).
- Reevaluates patient per Home Health standards; performs and documents supervisory visits.
- Understands and applies infection control procedures.
- Maintains clean and safe environment for patient care supplies and/or equipment.
- Demonstrates evidence of professional growth through active participation in the following: patient conferences, chart audits, meetings, in-services, research and teaching, continuing education courses, staff orientation and training, and clinical preceptorships with students and volunteers.
- Exercises positive listening and communication skills.
- Serves as team player and role model for other employees in Organization.
- Conducts oneself in service-oriented manner that is attentive, cooperative, and respectful when dealing with members, visitors, public and all employees.
- Demonstrates critical thinking such as problem solving, reflective practice, clinical reasoning, prioritizing.
- Participates in performance improvement.
- Identifies and presents improvement opportunities to the organization and implements the Quality Improvement process(es).
- Assists with development and implementation of departments work plan.
- Maintains productivity levels per the home health standards.
- Prepares weekly schedule of patient visits and keeps Intake Coordinator apprised of schedule changes and openings for admissions and/or other added visits.
- Follows all applicable laws, rules and recommendations for safe driving while on duty.
- Demonstrates knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to provide care and/or service appropriate to populations served.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum two (2) years of occupational therapy experience.
Education
- Bachelors degree in occupational therapy or four (4) years of equivalent experience.
License, Certification, Registration
- National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy Occupational Therapist Certificate OR American Occupational Therapy Association Occupational Therapist Certificate
- Occupational Therapist License (Hawaii)
- Drivers License (in location where applicable)
- Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
- National Provider Identifier required at hire
Additional Requirements:
- Ability to physically access variety of terrain and assist patients/caregivers in performing functional tasks and therapeutic exercises.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in interpersonal relations, oral communication, written communication, customer service, and problem solving.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in word processing and spreadsheet PC applications.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum three (3) years of home health care experience.
- Masters degree in occupational therapy.
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