PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

Responsible for:

1. Direct patient treatments.

2. Safety of the patient while he/she is in the Occupational Therapy department.

3. Organization and proper order of the Occupational Therapy treatment area.

4. Maintaining departmental and patient records.

5. Monitoring the supplies used for extended care, physical disabilities and stress management patients.

6. Charting daily progress of patients.

Physical Demands/Conditions: Bending, stooping, lifting patients and equipment when necessary.

Pushing patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers. Adjusting equipment to meet the specific needs to the patient treatment. Giving resistive exercise. Physical contact with patients is sometimes necessary in treatment. Being alert and attentive to perceive reactions that patients may have to treatment. Ability to work under pressure and/or stress on occasion. Operation of electrical equipment.