Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant

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NW Arkansas Job Code:
COTA - PRN # of openings:
1 Description Company Overview:
Regency Hospitalsare national centers of clinical excellence, where we care for critically ill patients. How do we do it? We are committed to educating and training the most dedicated staff in a challenging and rewarding environment. We are a long-term acute care hospital company dedicated to giving people their lives back. We achieve this by having outstanding, caring physicians and nurses who love what they do and who practice aggressively with quality and compassion. Our solutions for patients also include providing the most technologically advanced equipment available, and by creating an environment where there is hope and a desire to get well. It’s our mission to give people their lives back when they thought they might never have the chance to live again. We are a different kind of hospital with a different kind of culture. And it shows in everything we do. Here atRegency, you’ll rediscover what it was you loved about caring for people. Position Summary:
The Occupational Therapy Assistant provides occupational therapy programs and treatments under the supervision of a licensed therapist to facilitate independence and functioning to clients. Duties and Responsibilities:
· Implements therapeutic programs and treatment within the instruction and guidelines established by the therapist; notifies therapist of progress or changes. · Implements therapeutic programs and treatment which include, but are not limited to, positioning, mobility, motor development, orthopedic status, adaptive equipment, feeding, ADL's. · Maintains equipment and supplies in accordance with departmental procedures, to assure availability of resources to therapists and effective departmental operation. · Maintains a safe and orderly work environment, thorough cleaning and straightening of the area, following specific departmental procedures/instructions, daily. · Designs, constructs, and monitors patient use of adaptive equipment, orthotic devices, wheelchairs, and mobility and positioning devices. · Participates as member of interdisciplinary team; attends patient-related and department meetings as required. · Participates in quality control and quality improvement. Requirements:
· Graduate of a 2 year accredited occupational therapy assistant program · Must have State required Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant license. · BLS certification · Ability to lift 40 pounds Our generous benefits plan, to include full medical, dental, employer paid short and long term disability and more, are highly regarded within the business and health care community as a model many try to emulate but very few can match.