Occupational Therapy Assistant Job In Alamogordo, New Mexico
Occupational Therapy Assistant - 743017
Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310 Type of Facility: Hospital
• Help clients with rehabilitative activities and exercises outlined in a treatment plan developed in collaboration with an occupational therapist.
• Monitor an individual’s activities to make sure that they are performed correctly and to provide encouragement.
• Record their client’s progress for the occupational therapist.
• Document the billing of the client’s health insurance provider.
• Prepare materials and assemble equipment used during treatment.
• Schedule appointments, answer the telephone.
• Restock or order depleted supplies, and fill out insurance forms or other paperwork.
• Alter treatment programs to obtain better results if treatment is not having the intended effect.
• Assemble, clean, and maintain equipment and materials for patient use.
• Design, fabricate, and repair assistive devices and make adaptive changes to equipment and environments.
• Demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual and creative arts, and games.
• Evaluate the daily living skills and capacities of physically, developmentally or emotionally disabled clients.
• Implement, or assist occupational therapists with implementing, treatment plans designed to help clients function independently.
• Instruct, or assist in instructing, patients and families in home programs, basic living skills, and the care and use of adaptive equipment.
• Monitor patients’ performance in therapy activities, providing encouragement.
• Observe and record patients’ progress, attitudes, and behavior, and maintain this information in client records.
• Order any needed educational or treatment supplies.
• Report to supervisors, verbally or in writing, on patients’ progress, attitudes and behavior.
• Select therapy activities to fit patients’ needs and capabilities.
• Work under the direction of occupational therapists to plan, implement and administer educational, vocational, and recreational programs that restore and enhance performance in individuals with functional impairments.
• Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client’s abilities or progress.
Requirements
Education
Required:
Associates
Preferred:
Technical/other training
Licenses & Certifications
Required:
C-Cert Occ Therapy Asst
Preferred:
C-CPI
C-BLS
CHRISTUS Health is an international Catholic, faith-based, not-for-profit health system comprised of more than 600 services and facilities, including more than 60 hospitals and long-term care facilities, 350 clinics and outpatient centers, and dozens of other health ministries and ventures.
Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in Houston and San Antonio and the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, the mission of CHRISTUS Health is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.
To support our healthcare ministry, CHRISTUS Health employs approximately 45,000 Associates and has more than 15,000 physicians on staff who provide care and support for patients. CHRISTUS Health is listed among the top ten largest Catholic health systems in the United States.
EXTENDING THE HEALING MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST
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