Occupational Therapist

Responsibilities: Provides occupational therapy services. Assesses, treats, and instructs patient/clients in the development, improvement, and restoration of the performance of necessary functions, compensation for dysfunctions, and/or tempering of disability. Administers and interprets diagnostic and prognostic tests of function and applied therapeutic procedures. Evaluates the patient, confers with the physicians, and participates in the development, maintenance, and periodic re-evaluation of the Physicians Plan of Treatment and the Plan of Care. Utilizes professional skills and judgment in treating patients to increase strength, coordination, range-of-motion, and function of effected extremities and to retrain damaged nerve pathways or to teach compensation utilizing remaining innovations. Constructs splints to prevent deformities and additional devices to increase independence for the physically impaired. Other duties as required