• Evaluates and treats patients regarding the application of a wide variety of therapeutic interventions for rehabilitation of speech, language, communication, cognition, hearing and dysphasia disorders.
• Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span of patients served.
• Oversees and insures a comprehensive rehabilitation program designed to meet the physical, psychosocial, cognitive and immediate environmental well-being of the patient.
• Promotes patient/caregiver self-determination by optimizing outside resource utilization to achieve the highest level of independence.
• Coordinates and communicates with various disciplines or services involved in patient care.
• Coordinates efforts toward discharge goals established at initial evaluation and during episode of care.
• Other duties as assigned.

Masters Degree Required

• Job Duties: Provide patient centered assessments and intervention that address various areas of physical and developmental disorders.

• Develop treatment plans with interdisciplinary teams that may include Occupational Therapists and Speech-Language Pathologists.

• Complete daily notes and other documentations that is required to continue with medical insurances. (Timeframe is to be followed.)

• Follow all COVID Safe Practices that the State of NM requires.

Bachelors Degree Required

• Occupational Therapists are trained professionals who help individuals ages, to acquire or regain the skills needed to help perform, adapt and participate more fully in the activities of daily life.
• Occupational Therapists work on all senses including body awareness (proprioception) and movement (vestibular).
• Occupational Therapists help individuals learn to use tools and technologies in order to overcome limitations faced in day-to-day activities or the workplace.

Masters Degree Required

• Assists patients/residents/clients with therapy activities and exercises scheduled in a treatment plan, under the supervision of an occupational therapist, to improve patients’/residents’/clients’ quality of life and ability to perform daily activities.
• Provides, monitors and records therapy services to patients/residents/clients with physical, cognitive, developmental and psychosocial impairments, in line with related standard concepts, practices and procedures.
• Selects, implements, and makes modifications to therapeutic activities and interventions that are consistent with demonstrated competency levels, patient’s/resident’s/client’s goals, and the requirements of the practice setting and/or state licensure.
• The certified occupational therapy assistant contributes to this process by exchanging information with and providing documentation to the occupational therapist about the patient’s/resident’s/client’s responses to and communications during intervention.

Associates Degree Required Experience preferred, but not mandatory.