Occupational Therapy - Outpatient Lymphedema Specialist
full-time, first shift
The Occupational Therapist shall plan and implement specific treatment programs for individual patients and patient groups according to the principles and practices of occupational therapy. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams including doctors and other health personnel; and supervise COTAs, aides, volunteers, and students. The occupational therapist will follow hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
Requirements:
Bachelor, Post baccalaureate Certificate, Master or Doctoral degree from an occupational therapy program accredited by the Accrediting Council on Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE).
Kentucky State License or interim license as an occupational therapist required.
Advanced certification in Lymphoedema therapy required.
BLS from American Heart Association (AHA) – required within 90 days of hire.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in acute care, SNF, and/or outpatient experience preferred.
Benefits:
Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
Employee Assistance Program
Retirement plans with company match
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
