Occupational Therapist - Home Health

Additional Information About the Role

BJC Home Care is looking for you! If you're looking for a job with work-life balance, the ability to manage your own schedule, and direct patient care, then this is the opportunity for you. As a team member of BJC Home Care, you'll have the chance to build meaningful relationships with patients while providing them with the care they need. Don't miss out on this chance to join our team and make a difference in the lives of those in our community.

Schedule

40 hour work week

Typical Business hours are Monday through Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm

Service Area

North Territory

Preferred Qualifications

• Role Purpose
• The licensed or registered Occupational Therapist (OT) provides direct patient care activities in the home environment including assessment, evaluation, treatment planning, implementation, and instruction/ supervision of certified occupational therapy practice, and according to physician orders.

Responsibilities

• Instructs patient and family in treatment procedures.
• Re-evaluates patient and adapts treatment program accordingly to achieve maximum benefit.
• Instructs and assists patient to perform various occupational therapy activities and in use of assistive and supportive devices.
• Confers with physician and other practitioners to obtain additional information, suggest revisions in treatment plan and to integrate occupational therapy treatment with other aspects of patients‘ care.
• Minimum Requirements
• Education
• Bachelor's Degree
• Occupational Therapy (OT)
• Experience
• No Experience
• Supervisor Experience
• No Experience
• Licenses & Certifications
• Valid Driver's License
• Occupational Therapist Lic

Responsibilities

• BJC Home Care offers patients and their families a complete range of home care services, including skilled nursing services, adult and pediatric hospice and supportive care, rehabilitation therapy, home infusion therapy, infusion treatment rooms, home medical equipment and high-tech respiratory care. Specialty home care programs also are available, including adult and pediatric asthma, cardiac, diabetes, orthopedic and wound care programs.
• BJC Home Care provides care to thousands of patients in both Missouri and Illinois. Serving more than 25 counties, it has become the largest home care network in the region and one of the largest in the country.
• The Metro St. Louis Intermittent Home Care Department of BJC Home Care Services provides home visits to patients in the metropolitan St. Louis area and several nearby counties, with 24 hour on-call home care nursing supervision. Our JCAHO accredited, multi-disciplinary approach combines leading edge technology with a firm belief in the powerful recuperative advantages of receiving home care.

Qualifications

• Role Purpose
• The licensed or registered Occupational Therapist (OT) provides direct patient care activities in the home environment including assessment, evaluation, treatment planning, implementation, and instruction/ supervision of certified occupational therapy practice, and according to physician orders.

Responsibilities

• Instructs patient and family in treatment procedures.
• Re-evaluates patient and adapts treatment program accordingly to achieve maximum benefit.
• Instructs and assists patient to perform various occupational therapy activities and in use of assistive and supportive devices.
• Confers with physician and other practitioners to obtain additional information, suggest revisions in treatment plan and to integrate occupational therapy treatment with other aspects of patients‘ care.
• Minimum Requirements
• Education
• Bachelor's Degree
• Occupational Therapy (OT)
• Experience
• No Experience
• Supervisor Experience
• No Experience
• Licenses & Certifications
• Valid Driver's License
• Occupational Therapist Lic