PRN Occupational Therapist Assistant

Anywhere
Posted on August 7, 2025

Job Objective: The OTA/COTA helps residents by providing rehabilitative services under the direction of occupational therapists, to persons with mental, physical, emotional or developmental impairments.

Job Standards

Be a graduate from an accredited program of occupational therapist assistant education/training.
Be licensed in the State of Wisconsin.
Good health status.
Ability to read and write English and communicate oral and written instructions.
Adheres to safety policies and procedures

Essential Job Functions

Adheres to the philosophy, policies and procedures of Cedar Crest, Inc.
Understands and supports the Resident Bill of Rights.
Adheres to safety policies and procedures.
Provides direct supervision for and therapy aide in accordance with payment source regulations.
Performs appropriate reassessments such as: range of motion, manual muscle tests, ADLA/IADLS et. al., for the purpose of monitoring the individual treatment plan.
Performs appropriate therapeutic treatments according to patient needs, goals, plans, and standards of practice of the profession.
Adheres to departmental policies and procedures regarding documentation, personal work schedule, and patient treatment scheduling, communication guidelines with other departments, et. al.
Implements appropriate departmental policies to ensure compliance with all applicable laws, professional standards, and funding source requirements.
Participates in interdisciplinary conferences, family conferences, and departmental meetings.
Confers with physicians and other health professionals as appropriate for the patient plan of care.
Participates with facility quality assurance programs as necessary.
Provides in-services and training to families, staff, as appropriate.

Physical and Mental Requirements

Ability to formulate and implement complex changes in a time bounded fashion in concert with multiple departments with varying agendas.
Able to perform gross body coordination such as walking, standing. stooping, squatting, reaching at or above waist height, etc.
Able to walk, stand, squat, bend, sit for prolonged periods
Able to perform manipulative skills such as adjusting orthotic/prosthetic devices, clothing, exercise equipment, and performing patient reassessments, writing and collating, etc.
Able to hear normal sounds within some background noise such as in answering phones, etc.
Able to hear abnormal sounds within some background noise such as patient requests or conversation, or breath sounds without a stethoscope.
Ability to lift, push, pull, transfer a person weighing greater than 100#
Able to see adequately to work equipment properly, assess patient progress with therapeutic intervention and health status.
Have a sense of touch necessary to perform therapeutic treatments, assess patient progress with therapeutic intervention and health status.
Able to concentrate on moderate and fine detail with little, some, and constant interruption.
Ability to recognize clinical information and appropriately identify potentially urgent situations and to notify supervising physical therapist.
Ability to synthesize inputs from multiple models and sources to allow follow-thru of a occupational therapy treatment

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