Occupational Therapist
Location: Salisbury Maryland
Description: HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION is presently looking of Occupational Therapist right now, this career will be placed in Maryland. For detail informations about this career opportunity please read the description below. Hello, I am Belinda Thompson the Director of Human Resources for
HealthSouth
Chesapeake
Rehabilitation
Hospital
in
Salisbury
MD.
We currently have an opening for a staff occupational therapist in our 54-bed acute rehabilitation hospital in
Salisbury
,
Maryland
.
We also service the community with a hospital based outpatient site and a Home Health service program.
An experienced strong COTA would be considered for this position
.
Salisbury
is located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 30 miles from the ocean and resort areas and 2 to 2 ½ hours from
Baltimore
,
Washington
, D.C. and 3 hours from
Philadelphia
,
PA
and Virginia Beach/Norfolk, VA.
This position would be responsible for evaluating and treating patients with a variety of neurological, cardiac, pulmonary and orthopedic diagnoses.
The occupational therapist is an integral part of our interdisciplinary rehabilitation team consisting of physical thera! py, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, therapeut! ic recreation, nursing and rehabilitation medicine specialists.
Patients from our facility consistently demonstrate significantly higher outcomes upon discharge than the national average due to the high quality of care and excellent therapy services they receive during their stay.
HealthSouth offers a competitive salary and benefits including in-house educational opportunities.
HealthSouth
Chesapeake
Rehab
Hospital
, a President’s Circle Award facility, offers a competitive salary and benefits including; in-house and on-line educational opportunities including CEUs, a clinical career ladder, student loan and loan buy back options.
To apply or learn more about HEALTHSOUTH please our website:
http://www.healthsouth.com/
.
To learn more about our area, please check out the following websites:
News and information
:
http://www.wboc.com/
http! ://www.wmdt.com/
or
http://www.delmarvanow.com/
Housing
:
www.marriott.com/SBYRI
(temporary or long term)
http://www.millpondvillage.net/
(long Term)
http://www.salisburyapartments.com/
(Long Term) and a little further south on the VA Shore, quant temp/perm or vacation housing can be found at
http://www.stevescottages.com/
Local interests
:
http://www.salisburyarea.com/
or
http://www.wicomicocounty.org/
or
http://www.ococean.com/
http://www.chincoteagueculturalalliance.org/
If you are interested in visiting for an interview, please feel free to contact me, Belinda Thompson,
800-938-4600
or email me:
belinda.thompson@healthsouth.com
The HealthSouth Acute Rehabilitation Hospital of Salisbury, MD
is
Joint Commission Certified
and specia! lizes in rehabilitative care across a wide-array of diagnoses. Addition! ally we are recognized as a
Stroke Center of Excellence
by Joint Commission, a designation we are proud to have earned.
The hospital offers
a vast network of highly-skilled, independent private practice physicians and HealthSouth therapists and nurses, and the most innovative equipment and rehabilitative technology, ensuring that all patients have access to the highest quality care.
Our 54-bed acute rehabilitation hospital
offers the following inpatient specialty programs:
o
Amputee Rehabilitation Program
o
Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Program
o
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program
o
Burns Rehabilitation Program
o
Multiple Trauma Rehabilitation Program
o
Neuro-rehabilitation Program
o
Orthopedics Rehabilitation Program
o
Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program
o
Stroke Rehabilitation Program
The
Occupational Therapist
is part of a full team of rehabilitation specialists including Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Nursing and Medical staff providing therapy treatment and patient care according to hospital, state, professional and federal regulations and guidelines. In addition, the position:
Requires effective communication skills for working with patients, families, caregivers, and departmental and interdepartmental relationships.
Requires competency in physical therapy evaluation, assessment, care planning and treatment.
Requires task delegation and supervision of physical therapist assistants and technicians.
Maintains open and on-going communication with hospital departments to ensure patient, staff, and hospital needs are met.
Who will you treat?
We are a post acute rehabilitation hospital setting. Typically our PT, OT and SLP therapists can ! expect to spend an average of 1-4 weeks with our patients, treating a w! ide clinical caseload such as: stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, various neurological disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, amputation, joint replacement, fractures, multiple trauma, cardiac conditions, and pulmonary conditions.
Helping you become a better therapist is critical to our success
-
You will be paired with mentors
;
attend in-house as well as external educational programs. The treatment team is made up of full time therapists, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and medical staff; a great way to learn beyond your own discipline.
Benefits
To attract and retain the best professionals, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), college savings plan, employee assistance program, pre-paid legal plan and much more.
Keywords: Occupational Therapist, OT, inpatient rehab, acute rehab, stroke, head injury, brain in! jury, orthopedics, outpatient, rehab hospital, TBI, CVA, Cardiopulmonary, spinal cord injury, hands, home health, CHT
Qualifications
License or Certification:
- Must be in possession of current state license or certification on or before the first day of employment.
- CPR certification preferred unless otherwise required by hospital policy.
- Successful completion of a degree from an accredited therapy program or one that is determined to be substantially equivalent to a U.S. accredited program by an appropriate certifying agency preferred.
- Good visual acuity and ability to communicate
- Ability to lift, lower, push, pull, and retrieve objects weighing a minimum of 30 pounds of medical supplies and equipment and the transferring and repositioning of patients. Reasonable assistance may be requested when lifti! ng, pushing, and/or pulling are undertaken which exceeds these minimum ! requirements
- .
If you were eligible to this career, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION.
If you interested on this career just click on the Apply button, you will be redirected to the official website
This career starts available on: Sat, 04 May 2013 07:24:54 GMT