Occupational Therapist - Las Vegas, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs

Description

Summary

The Occupational Therapist provides direct patient care to homeless Veterans using advanced skills and knowledge of Occupational Therapy theories and techniques to evaluate patients as appropriate for their age and diagnosis to determine current levels of function. This position provides care to homeless Veterans in the Housing and Urban Development/VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program.

Duties

Major Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Assesses homeless Veterans for appropriate level of care and housing placement with Housing and Urban Development/VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) Veterans as needed.
• Performs evaluations to include history, role and occupational profile, motivation, occupational performance skills, patterns and factors, functional activities, mobility, process skills and communication/interaction skills.
• Develops and provides treatment interventions tailored to the Veteran's abilities/needs and design to promote, modify, maintain or restore occupational performance, meet treatment goals, and attain discharge.
• Develops and carries out Occupational Therapy Treatment Plan to meet individual rehabilitation objectives through interventions such as: therapeutic exercise, muscle testing and muscle re-education, ROM, cognitive therapy, neuromuscular facilitation, perceptual motor integration, fabrication and application of devices for daily living, teaching adaptive or compensatory techniques for accomplishing tasks, providing patient/family education regarding disability.
• Documents the Veteran's response to treatment, therapist's interventions and the progress toward reaching the desired targeted outcomes.
• Serves as consultant to other facility personnel in solving therapeutic problems and evaluating/ treating the complex interdisciplinary rehabilitation patients.
• Adapts assessment tools and treatment to the complexity of the diagnosis or disabilities and demonstrates the clinical reasoning necessary to identify the need for non-standard assessment, methods, and techniques.
• Communicates and consults with other VAMC disciplines on behalf of Occupational Therapy practice to provide comprehensive patient care.