Occupational Therapist FFS

• 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

• Graduate from an occupational therapy curriculum with a Baccalaureate Degree or Certificate in Occupational Therapy and approved by New York State Education Department.
• The candidate must be an Occupational Therapist licensed/certified by and currently registered with the New York State Education Department or who has been issued a valid permit by that department.
• Requires acute or homecare experience within the last two years.
• Knowledge of Home Care software

• After school/Day program hours
• Weekday/Weekend availability

• Field

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