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Job Title

Occupational Therapist

Location

Canton

Facility

Mercy Hospital

Department

Occupational Therapy-Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital:

Job Code

T29015

Shift

Days

Schedule

8:00am-4:30pm

Job Summary

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic’s Mercy Hospital where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world-class, and caregivers are family. Officially becoming a full member of the Cleveland Clinic Health System in 2021, Mercy Hospital offers a wide variety of medical specialties to the communities in and around Stark County. Here, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

Occupational Therapists provide many wide-ranging services to a variety of people who have been referred by a physician due to a problem with their ability to perform normal activities of daily living (ADLs). This may be due to physical injury, emotional or developmental problems, stroke, elective surgery, disease processes, aging or birth defects, just to name a few. The goal of OT is to maximize the ability of each individual to perform self-care, work and leisure activities to the best of their physical, emotional and cognitive abilities. Ultimately, the goal is also to help people re-learn skills needed to live independent, productive and satisfying lives.

By joining this team as an Occupational Therapist, you will support services across both the acute care inpatient hospital unit and the inpatient rehabilitation unit. This will allow you to work with a wide variety of patients, which can lead to advancing your skills and knowledge even further. By taking on this role, you can be a part of special interest groups as well as have the chance to take on other opportunities down the line.

A caregiver in this position works days from 8: 00AM – 4:30PM, including rotating weekends and holidays.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Evaluate and treat patients with physical, emotional, cognitive and/or psychosocial deficits which impact their abilities to successfully perform independent living skills.

• Assess patient 's ability to safely and effectively perform independent living skills and design the appropriate plan of care, including type and frequency of treatment.

• Implement the treatment plan using appropriate modalities and document subjective and objective findings of patient progress.

• Educate the patient and family/caregiver about patient deficits.

• Direct and supervise the activities of support personnel.

• Act as a clinical instructor or participate in the education and evaluation of students.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Graduate of an Occupational Therapy Program accredited by the American Occupational Therapy Association

• Current Ohio licensure as an Occupational Therapist (OT)

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) OR the American Red Cross

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Experience in a clinical area

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to walk without assistive device and to maintain balance despite sudden load in order to support patient from falling.

• Ability to meet physical demands characterized at the heavy level defined by 1993 Leonard Matheson and Ministry of Labor.

• Ability to lift and reach with arms sufficiently to lift patient's arm and leg during therapeutic treatment program.

• Sensation of touch and manual dexterity to be able to palpate muscle tension or to monitor patient pulse.

• Visual acuity to observe patient's gross and fine motor movements in order to analyze these movements and to read all patient monitors.

• Ability to speak clearly enough to instruct patients and families.

• Ability to hear at a conversational level to understand patient's description of symptoms and response to treatment.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

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