Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant-COTA - Cottonwood Healthcare Center
Woodland, CA 95695
About the Job
Cottonwood Post Acute Rehab is looking for a per diem Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant to join the rehab team! This is an in-house job opportunity. Cottonwood Post Acute Rehab is a beautiful facility in Woodland, CA here to serve our local community. We offer excellent benefits and provide supportive administration.
Our mission is to provide compassionate professional dedication in serving others, nurturing life, and promoting an individual's ability to thrive. We are hoping to find an individual that will carry on this mission as we help to provide exceptional quality of care to the patients here at the facility.
Website: http://www.cottonwood.com/or visit us Google!
Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant Requirements:
- Must pass a state-administered exam and have a license needed to pass a national certification examination administered by the National Certification NBCOT COTA.
- Valid BLS Certification
Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant Job Responsibilities:
This job generally requires the ability to do the following:
- Helps occupational therapy clients 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 clients 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.
- Serves and protects the occupational therapy practice by adhering to professional standards, policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards.
- Enhances occupational therapy practice reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Occupational Therapist Assistant Qualifications / Skills:
- Physiological knowledge
- Health promotion and maintenance
- Creating a safe, effective environment
- Motivating others
- Organization skills
- Bedside manner
- Patient services
- Health care administration
- Documentation skills
- Listening and verbal communication
- Education and Experience Requirements:
- Associate degree for physical therapy assistant
- All states require a license or certification
We are a skilled nursing facility committed to serving others, nurturing life, and promoting an individual’s ability to thrive. As a top-tier, 24-hour nursing home in Sacaramento, California, we pride ourselves on providing state-of-the-art rehabilitation and nursing services.