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