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As an Occupational Therapist at Hemphill County Hospital District (HCHD), you will provide comprehensive evaluations, develop personalized treatment plans, and deliver therapeutic interventions to help patients maximize their functional abilities. You will work across various settings, including outpatient clinics, hospitals, home health, assisted living, and senior living communities. In this role, you will empower patients to improve independence, mobility, and overall wellness, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals to ensure patient-centered care and optimal outcomes.
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Work Schedule:
Regular business hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Supervises certified occupational therapy assistant, therapy aide, and students in patient treatment.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Provides consultation in areas such as environmental design, adaptive equipment, proper positioning of patients to prevent contractures and splinting, and to agencies such as local schools, nursing homes, visiting nurse associations, and general hospitals. Administers and writes evaluations of assigned patients in accordance with departmental standards and procedures.
- Maintains timely and accurate patient records and reports.
- Designs and administers treatment programs to increase patients' levels of functioning. Uses therapeutic exercises and activities to improve or maintain strength, range of motion, and fine-motor coordination. Instructs patients in adapted techniques and the use of adaptive equipment for meal preparation, home management, dressing, feeding, and other self-care skills. Trains patients in the use of upper-extremity prosthetic devices to resume previous daily routines. Participates in home assessments.
- Provides therapy for neurological integration; administers sensor-motor integration treatment techniques and visual perceptual-motor remediation programs. Uses activities to increase developmental levels of patients. Designs and provides individualized therapy for adult learning-disabled patients.
- Designs and fabricates splints as specified by doctors' prescriptions; designs and/or fabricates slings and adaptive equipment to meet the needs of patients and/or their families.
- Administers treatment programs to traumatic brain-injured patients. Uses activities to improve judgment skills, reality orientation, and organizational skills.
- Provides prevention therapy to maintain functional skills; instructs patients in energy conservation, joint protection, safety techniques for sensory loss, and transferring and visual field deficits; instructs patients' families in personal care for patients, especially proper transfer techniques to avoid back strain.
- Administers prevocational programs to prepare patients to return to or enter a work setting. Provides activities to assess patients' organizational skills, attention spans, cognitive abilities, coordination (fine and gross-motor), and adaptive-equipment needs.
- Designs home programs and instructs patients or families in carrying out such programs.
- Participates in patient support groups with other team members.
ALL DUTIES AND REQUIREMENTS MUST BE PERFORMED CONSISTENT WITH THE HCHD PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.
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