Occupational Therapy Assistant, COTA

Aspire Health Group


Date: 3 days ago
City: Largo, FL
Contract type: Full time
Aspire Health Group is looking for Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants join our family!

Do you thrive in a family/team environment and desire to make a difference in the lives of others while advancing your skills? Are you caring and compassionate? If this sounds like you, let's talk!

Benefits

  • Pay rate: Competitive. Additional holiday pay and overtime hours may apply.
  • Access to online learning 24/7
  • Health insurance for the entire family!
  • 401k


Major Responsibilities

  • Helps occupational therapy Residents by providing rehabilitative services to persons with mental, physical, emotional, or developmental impairments.
  • Provides services under the direction of licensed occupational therapist.
  • Verifies client information by interviewing client, reviewing, and recording medical history, confirming purpose of treatment.
  • Helps Residents improve their quality of life by helping them compensate for limitations, such as, helping injured workers improve their motor skills and re-enter the labor force, and teaching persons with learning disabilities to prepare meals or to use public transportation and increase their independence.
  • Follows treatment plan developed in collaboration with occupational therapist by teaching techniques, such as, the proper method of moving from a bed into a wheelchair, and the best ways to stretch and limber muscles.
  • Monitors activities to make sure they are performed correctly and provides encouragement, bringing treatment that is not having the intended effect to the attention of the therapist.
  • Maintains patient occupational therapy records by recording client’s progress for use by the occupational therapist.
  • Generates revenues by recording billing information of services rendered.
  • Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
  • Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock, placing orders, and verifying receipt.
  • Keeps equipment operating by following operating instructions, troubleshooting breakdowns, maintaining supplies, performing preventive maintenance, and calling for repairs.


Qualifications

  • Documentation skills
  • Verbal communication
  • Patient services
  • Health care administration
  • Skilled Nursing environment
  • Teamwork
  • Use of medical technologies
  • Bedside manner
  • Dependability
  • Health promotion and maintenance


Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

  • High school diploma or equivalent, preferred.
  • Current licensure as a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant in practicing state and/or nationally certified.
  • Current CPR certification.
  • Minimum of three months recent experience as a Licensed Occupational Therapist working in a nursing home environment preferred.


We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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