Travel Occupational Therapist
Hattiesburg, MS
Talent4Health
5x8 hrs, Days

Seasonal Occupational Therapist (OT) 

Duties:

• Implement physician orders for Occupational Therapy services.
• Provide all aspects of OT within an interdisciplinary environment to facilitate patients’ return to as independent and safe a lifestyle as possible.
• Care for pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric patients, applying knowledge of growth and development.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills appropriate to the patient’s age and growth/development principles.
• Assess patient data to determine each patient’s requirements relative to age-specific needs and provide appropriate care.
• Conduct patient evaluations using appropriate functional tests/measures.
• Integrate objective measures with social factors, medical stability, activity restrictions, participation limitations, and comorbidities to determine functional deficits.
• Construct short-term, long-term, and patient/family goals with appropriate frequency and duration to establish therapy diagnosis and plan of care.
• Demonstrate critical thinking in evaluation and treatment planning.
• Utilize physical agent modalities (e.g., moist heat, paraffin) appropriately.
• Apply knowledge of cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal, nervous, and integumentary systems using age-specific indicators.
• Identify learning needs of patients and family members.
• Work as a team member to assist patients/families at all points of entry and along the continuum of care.
• Ensure proper and secure documentation in Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
• Perform other reasonably related job duties as assigned.

Skills Required:

• Strong patient evaluation and treatment planning skills.
• Ability to integrate clinical, social, and functional data.
• Critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of physical therapy modalities and systems of the body.
• Teamwork and patient/family support skills.
• Documentation and EMR proficiency.
• Ability to tolerate physically demanding tasks.

Mental Demands:

• Interpret and follow physician’s orders.
• Cooperate with co-workers and leadership.
• Be responsive to patient needs and demonstrate initiative toward treatment completion.

Physical Demands:

• Constant: walking, balancing, standing, turning, reaching, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, handling, hand/finger movements, wrist movements, sensory discrimination.
• Frequent: stooping, crouching, sitting.
• Occasional: running, climbing, kneeling.
• Rare: crawling, throwing.
• Must use visual acuity for paperwork, color vision, depth perception.
• Must use hearing acuity for conversation, monitoring equipment, phone, transcription, background noise.
• Must lift/push/pull up to 50 lbs.
• Must operate BP machines, pulse oximetry, wheelchairs, walkers, and other assistive devices.

Education:

• Candidate must be a graduate of an approved four-year bachelor’s degree program.
• Must provide proof of 2 hours of CVA-specific continuing education within the most recent 4 months.

Work Experience:

Candidate must have minimum one of the following as a Licensed Occupational Therapist (OT):

1. 1 year of full-time acute care experience, specific to OT practice, or
2. 2 years of experience in a skilled nursing or inpatient rehab facility, or
3. 2 years of acute care specific experience, if working less than full-time hours in this area of practice.

Schedule Notes:

• Shift: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
• Weekend: 1 weekend per month
• Typical Daily Sessions: 7 completed sessions (usually evaluations)
• Therapist Discretion: Schedule based on patient needs and tolerance

OT Department Information:

• Staffing: 3 Occupational Therapists (OTs) on staff, 1 CoTA
• Floating: OTs do not float
• Workload: Therapist manages sessions based on patient needs and capacity