Advocate Health Care

Occupational Therapist, Inpatient

Advocate Health Care$79K — $118K *
Hospitals & Medical Centers
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. or M.S. degree from accredited occupational therapy school.
  • Current licensure in the applicable state for occupational therapy.
  • CPR certification in Basic Life Support, Level C.

Responsibilities

  • Adhere to hospital standards for a cooperative work environment.
  • Provide comprehensive patient care assessments and establish treatment plans.
  • Maintain accurate documentation of patient evaluations and progress.
  • Meet department financial and productivity standards through effective scheduling.
  • Participate in process management and suggest evidence-based best practices.
  • Promote professional development and conduct in-service training for healthcare workers.
  • Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the healthcare team.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance up to $7,500 for qualified candidates.
  • Generous paid time off programs.
  • Comprehensive health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses.
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match.
  • Educational assistance program for career development.
Full Job Description
Department:

37648 Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center - Inpatient Rehabilitation: Physical & Occupational Therapy

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Monday-Friday, 40 hours. Weekend rotations.

Pay Range:
$38.20 - $57.30

Position Highlights:

  • Relocation Assistance: Up to $7,500 in Relocation Assistance (for qualified candidates)


What You'll Need:
  • B.S. or M.S. degree from accredited occupational therapy school.
  • Current licensure in the state of applicable state.
  • CPR certification in Basic Life Support, Level C


What You'll Do:
  • Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building. Following hospital policies and procedures. Following departmental policies and procedures. Contributing to the overall quality of services. Assuming responsibility for keeping informed about changes in policies and procedures.
  • Provides patient care assessment and treatment. Ensures patient evaluations and treatments are comprehensive, functional, and according to the standard of practice. Provides sound professional judgment in interpreting the evaluation results and establishing an acceptable treatment plan with realistic goals. Encourages patients and significant others in setting goals. Recognizes and responds to changes in the patient's physiologic state. Recommends next level of care. Ensures quality patient outcomes. Supervises support staff assisting with patient care by providing direction and feedback.
  • Maintains accurate documentation. Completes written patent evaluations, progress notes, and discharge notes per policy. Ensures accurate and timely documentation of patient/family education, charges and departmental statistics, and ICD-10 codes as appropriate. Maintains patient records in a systematic order and documentation is legible. Ensures that documentation is legible.
  • Meets department financial and productivity standards. Understands the budgeted expectation. Maintains productivity standards. Adjusts individual schedules to meet the needs of the patient and department.
  • Participates in process management to optimize quality and efficiency of services. Identifies quality and operational opportunities. Participates in process management and communicates progress and barriers to supervisor. Researches and suggests evidence based best practices to improve quality of patient care.
  • Promotes professional development and education of other health care workers and provides representation on committees. Conducts in-service training programs to provide state-of-the-art information to health care workers and enhances safety. Changes/developments in the profession locally, at the state level, and nationally are understood. Shares clinical expertise with other therapists, student affiliates, and other health care professionals.
  • Communicates effectively. Communicates in a professional and timely manner with patients, physicians, staff, and all external customers. Responds to questions by staff. Promotes an open atmosphere of communication. Shares information learned from seminars. Informs supervisor of issues and resolutions to potential problems. Communicates information with patient and family and ensures understanding.
  • Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines. Demonstrates age/developmentally specific knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patients served. Utilizes knowledge of age/developmentally specific data when assessing patients. Interprets age/developmentally specific response to treatment/activity accurately. Maintains competence related to age/developmentally specific patient care by regularly updating knowledge of growth and development and the aging process.


Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more - so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance


Benefits and more
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
  • Educational Assistance Program


Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
Learn more about Advocate Health Care
Size
75,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1976

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