Home Care Occupational Therapist Suffolk County

Home Care Occupational Therapist Job

Horizon Healthcare Staffing is searching for a home care Occupational Therapist. We are offering flexible hours. Locations include Huntington, Huntington Station, Northport, Brentwood, Central Islip, Bayshore, Babylon, and Lindenhurst. If any of these areas in Suffolk County interest you, please apply or reach out to one of our recruiters.

As a home care occupational therapist, you will be an integral member of a multi-disciplinary health care team that provides rehabilitative care and skilled nursing to clients, affording them the opportunity to receive the medical care required to remain at home. The overall purpose of a home care occupational therapist is to help people of all ages to have a safe home life with comfort, independence, and dignity. We believe our clients and their families deserve the highest quality of home health care delivered with compassion, excellence, and reliability.

Job Details:

Schedule: Flexible Hours

Setting: in the home

Job Title: Occupational Therapist

Location: Long Island (Suffolk County)

Job Duties / Responsibilities:

• Assess/screen patient's daily living/work-related skills and develop therapeutic retraining programs with measurable objectives. Administer and interpret diagnostic and prognostic tests of function to patients in their homes or other settings to assist the physician in evaluating the patient’s level of function.
• Confer with the patient's physician and other health care team members and participate in development/revision of the Plan of Care Treatment.
• Provide therapeutic treatment and instruction to patients in accordance with physician orders to improve/restore strength, coordination, range-of-motion and function or teach compensation measures.
• Review/expand the retraining programs in a manner consistent with the behavioral goals of each patient and within the guidelines of the rehabilitation program as a whole.
• Consult with other vocational team members, as appropriate, to develop and implement vocationally oriented plans consistent with the needs and capabilities of patients.
• Report patient status and progress to the physician, rehabilitation staff, Clinical Manager, patient and family members.
• Participate in care coordination and discharge planning activities and act as a resource to other health care personnel in meeting patient's needs.
• Design community reintegration activities to assist the client in the physical reconditioning effort, and/or the psychological adjustment and coordinate the plan with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Recommend and/or design special adaptive equipment for clients to improve residence or working environments or improve their participation in the rehabilitation program and/or community.
• Coordinate/oversee/supervise/instruct and evaluates Occupational Therapy Assistant and Home Health Aide performance in implementing occupational therapy services.
• Accurately and thoroughly document patients' care observations, interventions and evaluation on the day services are rendered.

Job Requirements:

• New York State Licensed Occupational Therapist
• Home Health experience a plus
• Current CPR Certification
• Good communication and written skills
• New grads encouraged to apply