Location: Long Beach, CA

Schedule: Full Time 40 Hours/week; 8am to 4:30pm.

Pay:$38 - $52  - Depending on Experience

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Job Summary: The Occupational Therapist position facilitates development and rehabilitation of patients with mental, emotional, and physical disabilities by planning and administering medically prescribed occupational therapy.

Key Responsibilities:

 1. Assess, plan, prepare and carry out individually designed programs of occupational therapy treatment to maintain, improve or restore physical functioning, enhance emotional and social well-being, alleviate pain and prevent physical dysfunction in patients. 

2. Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit and to meets the patient's goals and needs. 

3. Help patient develop or regain physical or mental functioning or adjust to disabilities by implementing programs involving manual arts and crafts, practice in functional, prevocational, vocational and homemaking skills, activities of daily living, and sensorimotor, educational, recreational, and social activities. 

4. Supervise all treatment/graded activities carried out by assistants/aides. 

5. Design home exercise programs, recommend and/or provide assistive device, instruct patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs that, if followed, will assure continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge from skilled therapy. 

6. Direct or supervise group rehabilitation activities. 

7. Provide information to the participant about the proposed intervention, its material risks and expected benefits and any reasonable alternatives. 

8. Document in accordance with AltaMed PACE departmental guidelines and within the established time frames. 

9. Complete assessments and collaborate with physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health care workers to establish an integrated individualized plan of care. 

10. Develop rehabilitation aides by providing information, guidance, training and conducting in-service training programs.

 11. Maintain patient confidence by keeping information confidential.

 12. Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with company policies and procedures, rules, and regulations. 

13. Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols. 

14. Comply with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.

Work Environment:

1. Work is in an office environment/rehab gym, climate controlled through central air conditioning, and outdoors, subject to weather conditions. 

2. Low risk for contamination when adhering to Universal Precautions.

3. Will work with Rehab exercise equipment and Adaptive/Durable Medical Equipment. 4. Will have some exposure to outside environment while traveling and/or working outdoors

Required Skills and Abilities:

1. Excellent oral and written communication skills. 

2. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work as a team member. 

3. Ability to handle multiple tasks and meets deadlines. 

4. Computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point. 

5. Knowledgeable of Proper Body Mechanics and lifting techniques. 

6. Patience and understanding of frail elderly.

7. Adheres to the Clinic Standards of Behavior.

8. Requires the exertion of 50 pounds of force occasionally, up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. 

9. Will require 20% sitting, 30% walking, and 50% standing. 

10. May also need to move heavy equipment, transfer/lift patients and assist patient with walking and turning. 

11. Occupational Therapist may also have to stoop, kneel, crouch, lift, and stand for long periods. 

12. May be required to travel to sites/program/participants’ homes and special functions as needed.