Home Health Occupational Therapist

The Home Health Occupational Therapist plays a critical role in delivering personalized therapeutic care to patients within their own homes, enabling them to regain independence and improve their quality of life. This position involves comprehensive assessment, treatment planning, and implementation of occupational therapy interventions tailored to each patient's unique needs and home environment. The therapist collaborates closely with patients, families, and interdisciplinary healthcare teams to ensure coordinated and effective care. By focusing on functional abilities and adaptive techniques, the therapist helps patients overcome physical, cognitive, or emotional challenges resulting from injury, illness, or disability. Ultimately, this role aims to empower patients to perform daily activities safely and confidently, promoting long-term health and well-being in a comfortable, familiar setting.

As a Occupational Therapist, you will:

• Perform clinical assessment; identifies patient needs and appropriateness of patient.

• Documents, prepares, revises, and completes a Plan of Care, progress notes, phone orders and other clinical record documentation on an ongoing basis and in a timely manner.

• Accepts clinical assignments that are consistent with education and competence to care for patients/clients.

• Participates in the IDG care planning process.

• Apply concepts of infection control and standard precautions in coordination/performing patient care activities to prevent contamination and transmission of disease.

• Assess and facilitate through direct therapeutic intervention the patient's ROM, strength, coordination, need for and use of adaptive equipment and environmental modifications, functional mobility and safety issues as related to patient’s ADL performance needs. Fabricate and maintain adaptive equipment and hand splints.

• Uses effective interpersonal relations and communication skills; facilitates the use of these skills by other team members to achieve desirable outcomes.

• Evaluate patient occupational performance in the areas of self-care, work, leisure and rest. Assess sensory-motor neuromuscular, psycho-social and cognitive-perceptual components of occupational behavior. Assess physical, social and cultural components of the patient’s occupational environment.

• Meets mandatory continuing education requirements of the Agency and the licensing board.

• Promotes the Agency philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.

Requirements

• Valid Occupational Therapy License

• 1 year of occupational therapy experience preferred

• CPR certification

• Valid Driver’s License & Auto Insurance

• HomeCare HomeBase experience preferred

Physical Demands

• Must be able to stand, walk, sit, climb, crawl, squat, or kneel for extended periods.

• Must be able to lift, carry, pull, or push up to 100 lbs..