Occupational Therapist - OTR

The Registered Occupational Therapist will provide diagnostic evaluations and treatment to assigned patients.

• Plans, develops, organizes, implements, evaluates and directs the facility’s Occupational Therapy, as well as its programs and activities, in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern nursing care facilities
• Maintains timely and accurate patient records and reports
• Designs and administers treatment programs to increase patients' levels of functioning
• Uses therapeutic exercises and activities to improve or maintain strength, range of motion, and fine-motor coordination
• Instructs patients in adapted techniques and the use of adaptive equipment for meal preparation, home management, dressing, feeding, and other self-care skills
• Trains patients in the use of upper-extremity prosthetic devices to resume previous daily routines
• Provides therapy for neurological integration; administers sensor-motor integration treatment techniques and visual perceptual-motor remediation programs
• Designs and fabricates splints as specified by doctors' prescriptions; designs and/or fabricates slings and adaptive equipment to meet the needs of patients and/or their families
• Administers treatment programs to traumatic brain-injured patients
• Uses activities to improve judgment skills, reality orientation, and organizational skills
• Provides prevention therapy to maintain functional skills; instructs patients in energy conservation, joint protection, safety techniques for sensory loss, and transferring and visual field deficits; instructs patients' families in personal care for patients, especially proper transfer techniques to avoid back strain
• Administers prevocational programs to prepare patients to return to or enter a work setting.
• Designs home programs and instructs patients or families in carrying out such programs
• Additional duties as assigned

• Knowledge and skills to care for the physical and developmental needs of the patients
• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations
• Professionalism, accuracy, and dependability
• Excellent customer service and patients care skills

• Must possess, as a minimum, a Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited college or university
• Must possess a current, unencumbered license to practice as an Occupational Therapist in the State of Wisconsin
• One year of experience preferred.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer!

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