Occupational Therapist - CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region
Colorado Springs, CO 80921
About the Job
CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region is committed to building healthier communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen—both inside our hospitals and out in the community. With locations throughout Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, we deliver the same high standard of care to our employees as we do to our patients. Our 20 hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers, home care and hospice, Flight for Life Colorado TM , telehealth and over 240 physician practices and clinics offer endless opportunities! Here, you can grow your career and impact the people in the communities you serve.
CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, faith-based health systems, with a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. CommonSpirit operates more than 2,200 care sites and 140 hospitals, serving some of the most diverse communities across the nation, letting humankindness lead the way.
Overview:You have a purpose, unique talents and NOW is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more.
Join our Occupational Therapist team! As an Occupational Therapist you will be is responsible for a continuum of services providing care to patients with neuromuscular, orthopedic and other physically related disorders requiring mobility training, strengthening, modalities, specialized manual therapy and neuromuscular reeducation. In this position you will utilizes rehab process to promote and restore optimal health and well-being of the patient. Assumes personal accountability for organizational mission and core values
Qualifications:In addition to bringing your whole self to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:
- Previous work experience providing direct patient care in outpatient, inpatient or inpatient rehab unit preferred
- Prior use of electronic medical records (EMR), preferred
- Bachelor Degree in Occupational Therapy required
- Master's degree preferred
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association required
- Current Colorado state licensure in occupational therapy upon hire or within 3 months required
Physical Requirements - Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)
This full time acute care OT role will cover shifts at St Francis Hospital - Interquest Monday to Friday. We are looking for coverage at least 1 weekend a month. It does have an option to pick up more shifts at Penrose Hospital. We are looking for orthopedic experience for this role.
Your Connected Community:At CommonSpirit Mountain Region, we believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate humankindness.
At St Francis Hospital – Interquest, our team-oriented therapy department consists of Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologist, Rehab Technicians and a Manager. We treat orthopedic post operative patients, general medical/surgical patients, and low to mid acuity intensive care/intermediate care patients. As a brand new, state-of-the-art hospital with innovative technology, our focus is employee engagement to build connected teams and establish a culture of motivation, collaboration, and compassion. In a new team member, we look for someone who is caring, willing to constantly grow and understanding of how evidenced based practice and meeting key metrics allows us to best care for our community.
Our Total Reward Offerings:Be sure to consider our generous benefits as part of your overall compensation! Designed with your well-being in mind, our benefits include:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401K with generous match
- Daycare FSA that can include a company contribution
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Student Loan Forgiveness and more!
View more on our benefits HERE.
Pay Range:$32.35 - $55.84 /hour