The staff Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluates and regularly assesses the ongoing effects of the occupational therapy intervention for clients after accident, injury, disease, or condition across the lifespan. The OT addresses physical, emotional, and environmental needs. The OT advises on adaptive equipment and techniques to help clients resume or develop skills needed for day-to-day life and work. The goal of OT is to improve or maintain the client’s ability to perform activities of daily living and reach goals to return to highest level of functional independence.
Full-time day shift, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Pediatric Therapy Department
Evaluates clients after impairment, injury, or disease.
Creates an individualized treatment plan and selects appropriate interventions based on evidence-based practice and selects appropriate interventions based upon evaluation and assessment of client.
Re-evaluates and provides periodic reassessment of client progress and contributes to discharge planning.
Supervises treatment provided by students and occupational therapy assistants.
Participates and makes recommendations for client care interventions to the interdisciplinary health care team.
Delegates and instructs supportive personnel in services to be provided.
Performs all other duties as requested by the manager.
Provides timely documentation per department and/or entity policy and as required by insurance provider to meet licensing, certification, regulatory, reimbursement requirements, and physician treatment plan.
Uses professional judgment to ensure safety to self, clients, and others at all times.
Completes at minimum a department level project.
Serves as a clinical resource for department.
Participates in quality initiative.
Applicable Experience:
2 yearsOccupational Therapist (MO) - Missouri Division of Professional RegistrationBachelor's DegreeFull TimeDay (United States of America)
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- The region’s longest continuously operating adult heart transplant program and one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular programs at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Treatment for complex brain and spinal cord diseases and one of the nation’s leading stroke reversal programs at the nationally ranked Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
- The region’s only treatment center dedicated exclusively to treating metastatic breast cancer—the Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
- Saint Luke’s Convenient and Urgent Care clinics for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries
- Liver and kidney transplantation programs
- A comprehensive maternal-fetal diagnostic and treatment center
- Three Neonatal Intensive Care Units, including a Level IIIb NICU at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, the only comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital of its kind in the region
- A nationally recognized children's behavioral health center, Saint Luke’s Hospital Crittenton Children’s Center