**Job Title:** Seasonal Occupational Therapist
**Job Specialty:** Occupational Therapy
**Job Duration:** 13 weeks
**Shift:** Day - 5x8 - 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, 40 Hours Per Week
**Guaranteed Hours:** 40 hours
**Experience:** Minimum of 1 year of full-time acute care experience or 2 years in a skilled nursing/inpatient rehab facility, or 2 years of acute care experience with part-time hours.
**License:** Licensed Occupational Therapist
**Certifications:** None specified
**Must-Have:** Proof of 2 hours of CVA specific continuing education within the recent four months
**Job Description:**
- Implement physician's orders for occupational therapy services.
- Work within an interdisciplinary environment to facilitate patient return to an independent and safe lifestyle.
- Utilize growth and developmental knowledge for pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric patient care.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary for age-appropriate care.
- Assess patient status, interprets data, and plan care according to age-specific needs.
- Conduct patient evaluations using appropriate functional tests/measures.
- Construct short-term, long-term, and patient/family goals based on evaluation.
- Perform patient evaluations with the ability to interpret social factors, medical stability, and other factors.
- Demonstrate tolerance for physically demanding tasks, ensuring patient and personal safety.
- Maintain secure documentation in the Electronic Medical Record.
- Use critical thinking in patient evaluation and treatment planning.
- Understand and apply physical agent modalities, such as moist heat and paraffin, appropriately.
- Possess knowledge of the cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal, nervous, and integumentary systems in patient care.
- Identify learning needs of patients or family members and address them effectively.
- Cooperate with team members to support patients throughout the therapeutic process.
- Perform other related job duties as assigned.
**Physical Demands:**
- Constant walking, balancing, standing, turning, reaching, lifting, carrying, pushing, and handling.
- Frequent stooping, crouching, sitting.
- Occasional running, climbing, kneeling.
- Rarely crawling, throwing.
- Ability to lift, handle, push, and pull up to 50 pounds.
- Operate equipment such as blood pressure machines, pulse oximetry, wheelchairs, and walkers.
**Mental Demands:**
- Follow and interpret physician's orders.
- Respond to patient needs and demonstrate initiative in completing treatment.