Pediatric Occupational Therapist

Balanced Physical Therapy + Wellness is committed to providing an exceptional multidisciplinary patient care experience that promotes healing & recovery in a compassionate environment to meet the needs of each individual patient. We are guided by achieving compassion, integrity, service, teamwork, and a commitment to excellence. Balanced Physical Therapy was established in 2015 with the mission of creating a fun, vibrant family practice environment emphasizing compassionate patient care by knowledgeable, energetic therapists. This philosophy, along with an excellent team of very skilled and accomplished therapists, has helped Balanced Physical Therapy + Wellness grows from a small, two therapist clinics into a thriving multi-specialty practice with 8 clinics and 90+ employees in just 9 years.

Balanced Physical Therapy + Wellness is looking for a full-time Pediatric Occupational Therapist to join our team in an atmosphere that fosters learning and camaraderie. A fun and vibrant family practice environment, emphasizing compassionate patient care! 

Albuquerque Business First Best Place to Work in 2022, 2023 & 2024!

Responsibilities (Duties of this position are included but not limited to):

Provide skilled Pediatric Occupational Therapy intervention to address various developmental and behavioral needs for the pediatric population relating to cognitive function, fine motor skills, gross motor skills and social skills.

• Consult with patients to learn about their physical condition and symptoms
• Review medical history and referrals from doctors/surgeons
• Develop and implement individualized occupational therapy treatment plans that focus on rehabilitation
• Work directly with patients to achieve maximum physical recovery and quality care
• Advise, coach and teach patients therapeutic exercises and stretches to improve condition
• Evaluate effects of therapy treatment and communicate patients' progress
• Record and document patient care services | Track goals and progress while adapting treatment
• Collaborate with other team personnel to achieve well-rounded care
• Provide a clean, safe, effective environment for occupational therapy and rehabilitation

Required Qualifications:

• Certification in Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Bachelor’s Degree from an Accredited Program
• Current Pediatric Occupational Therapy license for the state of New Mexico
• Previous experience in occupational therapy, rehabilitation, or other related field
• Possess and enhances up-to-date knowledge of treatment practices
• Ability to handle physical workload
• Strong interpersonal skills to build rapport with patients
• Ability to demonstrate compassion and empathy for patients
• Demonstrates a “servitude” attitude
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong time management skills to manage daily case load
• Strong leadership qualities
• Basic computer skills
• Perform related duties as required

Offering:

• Competitive Pay
• Full Benefits | Health Insurance (Medical / Dental / Vision)
• 401K
• Life Insurance
• Generous Personal Time Off
• Holiday Paid Time Off (7 Days Per Year)
• Stipend for CEU’s

Job Type: Full-time

HealthCare Setting: Outpatient

Medical Specialties: Pediatric Occupational & Rehabilitation Medicine

Schedule: Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Occupational Therapist OT Full Time

Job Description 

Overview

At Rehabilitation Hospital of Southern New Mexico, our hospital has been ranked in the Top 10% nationally for rehabilitative care for 15 years and has earned The Joint Commission’s Brain Injury, Stroke and Spinal Cord Certification.  At our 40-bed hospital, we provide specialized inpatient and outpatient rehabilitative services to our patients, serving the communities of Southern New Mexico. We see patients who often are recovering from disabilities caused by injuries, illnesses, or chronic medical conditions.

We are seeking an Occupational Therapist PRN to join our team of passionate patient caregivers!

As a participating hospital of Ernest Health, our patients are family. Healthcare is constantly evolving, and our growing organization is devoted to ensuring that each person in our care feels safe. Our world-class team of driven, passionate healthcare professionals is always focused on service excellence and providing top quality care at the bedside.

Employees are our priority. We are passionate about patient care and consider it a privilege to be able to provide services to patients and their family members. Ernest Health provides a variety of benefits to all our employees including: 

• PPO and High Deductible Medical Plan options
• FSA and HSA (with employer matching) options available
• Dental and Vision coverage
• 401K with employer matching
• Life insurance
• Short-and-long term disability
• Pet insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness Program
• Tuition and Continuing Education reimbursement
• Earned Time Off

Full-Time and Part-Time Clinical positions are also eligible for:

• Clinical Career Ladder levels
• Nursing Preceptor Programs
• PCT Career Path levels
• CRRN or CCRN Certification Pay

Qualifications

Required Skills:

•  Current licensure as an Occupational Therapist required
•  Basic Life Support/CPR card required
•  One year of experience in the care of patients in rehabilitation hospital setting preferred.

Additional Qualifications/Skills:

•  Knowledge of clinical operations and procedures.
•  Demonstrates an understanding of treatment costs and financial support as they relate to quality and efficiency.
•  Demonstrates competency in the provision of care according to established standards
•  Demonstrates appropriate application of age specific standards, policies and procedures and guidelines in caring for pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients  
•  Demonstrates general computer skills including: data entry, word processing, email, and record management.
•  Leadership skills in delegating, organizing, and educating coworkers and staff.  
•  Effective organizational and time management skills.
•  Effective written and verbal communication skills.
•  Ability to maintain proper levels of confidentiality.
•  Ability to work closely and professionally with others.
•  Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards.

Job Description

Bio-Physical Health Director

Bio-Physical health director must hold a valid license from the State of New Mexico, follow all policies and procedures laid out in the TTC employee handbook and a caseload based on the following:

Position Summary:
The Bio-Physical health director provides the leadership to effectively grow the Bio-Physical health services by ensuring clinical excellence, operating efficiency, and financial strength. This includes leadership in developing a strong Bio-Physical health team and partnership with TTC President to ensure the clinical excellence and operational performance of the Bio-Physical health services. The Bio-physical health director is also responsible for designing, developing, and implementing a strategic plan to ensure the success of Bio-Physical health services’, clinical, financial, and overall operating performance, and successful growth. Bio-Physical health director directs, administers, and coordinates the overall operations of the services, including the goals and objectives established by TTC President.

Treatment and Documentation Requirements:

• The Bio-Physical health director is responsible for empowering patients to participate more fully in daily tasks when this ability is compromised by a health condition, limiting environmental factor, illness, or negative life experiences. Occupational therapy is medically prescribed and involves skilled evaluation, treatment, and discharge.
• Bio-Physical health director must be licensed to provide occupational therapy in the state of New Mexico. Masters and doctoral preparation are preferred as are OTs who are registered and in good standing with the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy.
• Evaluation/Re-evaluation: Assesses the client’s functional abilities, including physical, emotional, cognitive, executive functioning, social, and sensory components to evaluate the necessity of skilled occupational therapy intervention. A patient’s history, context, and goals for treatment shall be considered when determining a treatment plan.
• Treatment: Facilitates the client’s achievement of goals set forth in the treatment plan by providing neuromuscular re-education, therapeutic activity, therapeutic exercise, manual therapy, self-care/home management training, development of cognitive skills, sensory integration techniques, and wheelchair management.
• Discharge: Ensures safety at discharge and continuation of progress by providing home exercise programs, family/caregiver instruction, recommendations for assistive equipment and recommendations for continued therapy in a less restrictive setting. Discharge planning shall begin at the evaluation and continue through the course of treatment. Planning and coordination for discharge should occur in conjunction with physicians, social workers, other health care workers and the client and family members/caregivers.
• Maintenance of the occupational therapy department’s integrity: Maintains professional expertise through continued education as necessitated by licensure and as appropriate for provision of specific treatments. Supports the development of the occupational therapy department by annually reviewing best practices and complies with agency required trauma-informed trainings/educational courses. Complies with federal and state professional requirements.
• Perform a thorough assessment of patient and/or family through the use of the following: assessments Behavior Rating Scale of Executive Functioning (all ages); Sensory Processing Measure (all ages); Adolescent/Adult, Infant-Toddler, and Child Sensory Profile; Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-2; Bayley Scales of Infant Development; Social Profile; Peabody Developmental Motor Scales; and several other non-standardized functional assessments of handwriting, social skills, emotional processing, praxis, adaptive behavior etc.
• The Bio-Physical health director will create a full and complete treatment plan (please refer to Employee Handbook) with the patient and/or caregivers. This will be presented to the patient and/or caregivers after treatment plan session and will need to be signed off on and added into the patients’ file. The treatment plan will need to be re-evaluated every 30 days.
• The Bio-Physical health director will create and maintain accurate and current documentation of each session through the TTC electronic medical records system (Therapy Notes). The session note will be completed within 24 hours of when the session was conducted. The Bio-Physical health director will save the note for review and approve. The Bio-Physical health director will then sign the note if the note is accurate and complete.

Supervision Requirements:

• Responsible for selection, assessment, evaluation, development, coaching, counseling of Bio-Physical health employees to ensure quality patient care in accordance with TTC’s mission, vision, and values.
• Provide leadership within the organization, including advice, guidance, direction, and authorization to achieve the clinical and financial goals and objectives of the organization.
• Design, develop and implement a strategic plan that focuses on Bio-Physical health excellence, financial performance, and business development in collaboration with the TTC President. Manage and direct the Bio-Physical health toward the goals of the plan; includes effective measures that raise community awareness of services offered by the program.
• Provide timely, accurate and complete reports on the operations of the services, including, but not limited to, measures and effectiveness of achieving operational performance as defined in the strategic plan.
• Create and maintain proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and systems to meet and exceed the clinical and financial goals of the organization included in the strategic plan.
• Oversee the adequacy and soundness of the services’ financial performance, including reviews of operating results, comparing them to established objectives and take steps to ensure appropriate planning is taken to address variances.
• Motivate, lead, and mentor a high-performance team; retain required staff with strong emphasis on employee engagement.
• Ensure that all activities and operations are carried out in compliance with local, state, and federal regulation, and all laws governing Bio-Physical health operations.
• Ensure the enforcement of TTC’s policies and patients’ rights and responsibilities.
• Responsible for establishing and implementing a safe working environment that meets all licensure, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.

General Requirements:

• The Bio-Physical health director will abide by NM Occupational Therapy Board’s ethical mandates and codes.
• The Bio-Physical health director is a mandated reporter and will abide by the state mandates on reporting child abuse, neglect, or maltreatment.
• The Bio-Physical health director will abide by the TTC policy for suicide and homicide reporting and intervention.
• The Bio-Physical health director is required to attend staff meetings each week unless approved otherwise.
• The Bio-Physical health director is required to attend the occasional mandatory meeting and training outside of the staff meeting.
• The Bio-Physical health director is responsible for monitoring their own self-care, interactions with others and self-reflective capacity. This is a high priority as TTC and the TTC leadership will be actively working to support the growth and development of these qualities in the therapists.
• The Bio-Physical health director is required to treat all members of the TTC staff, clients, administration, leadership, and colleagues respectfully and kindly.
• The Bio-Physical health director must check their TTC email, voicemail, and Qliqs periodically throughout their workdays.

Job Title: BioPhysical Occupational Therapist

Location: Rio Rancho, NM

Summary: In addition to providing individual, group and/or family therapy, the Clinician participates in interdisciplinary treatment planning by developing an annual comprehensive psychosocial assessment, quarterly treatment plans, and documentation for each Client, the Clinician will participate in individual supervision, team consultation and team meetings. 

Role Responsibilities: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provides clinical treatment to clients across the lifespan using individual, group and family therapy practices.
• Begin the therapeutic relationship with the clients and/or caregivers first through the intake process.
  • Evaluation/Re-Evaluation: Assess the Clients functional abilities include physical, emotional, cognitive, executive functioning, social and sensory components to evaluate the necessity of skilled occupational therapy intervention, need for massage therapy intervention, yoga-based therapy intervention or other services available in the biophysical health department.
• Perform a thorough assessment of the client and the family through the use of Behavior Rating Scale of Executive Functioning (all ages); Sensory Processing Measure (all ages), Adolescent/Adult, Infant/Toddler, and Child Sensory Profile, Bruininks Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-2, Bayley Scales of Infant Development, Social Profile, Pead=body Developmental Motor Scales, and/or several other non-standardized functional assessments of handwriting, social skills, emotional processing, praxis, adaptive behavior, etc.
  • Assessments that are used to support or justify a diagnosis should be updated alongside the treatment plan as appropriate.
• Clinical therapist will create a full and complete treatment plan with the clients and/or legal guardians/caregivers including long-term and short-term measurable goals for the child, adult or family, diagnosis of the client, treatment modality to be utilized, plan and discharge.
  • This will be presented to the client and/or legal guardians/caregivers after the assessment sessions and the caregivers will sign the presented treatment plan for TTC records.
  • The treatment plan will be re-evaluated every 90 days and adjusted as necessary.
• Create and maintain accurate and current documentation of each session through the TTC electronic medical records system. The session note will be completed within 48 hours of the session being conducted.
  • If requiring a supervisor signature: The clinical therapist will save the note for the supervisor to review and approve. The supervisor will then sign the note if the note is accurate and complete within 24 hours.
• The Clinician must maintain a monthly average of their contracted billable hours.
  • The clinical therapist is responsible for maintaining an accurate and full calendar with correct billing session codes for each session.
  • Calendars are to be updated reflecting appointments scheduled 6 weeks out.
• The clinical therapist must review and enforce the cancellation policy with their clients. Clinical judgement may be utilized in certain cases where the family needs extra support to attend appointments.
• Attends staffing meeting weekly and team consultation.
• Follow all legal and ethical mandates, locally, statewide and nationally. Clinicians are required to consult with their direct supervisors anytime they make a SCI/APS report. 
  • All mandatory reporting calls must be completed within 48 hours of disclosure. Documentation of call must be signed by the Clinician’s supervisor and uploaded to Clients electronic medical record. 

Organizational Structure: TTC is governed by its CEO and COO who oversee the corporation as a whole.  TTC houses multiple departments.  Each department has its own Director and Assistant Director (when necessary). Individual Clinicians may refer to their contracts for who their direct supervisor is and when applicable who their supervisees are. 

            Clinicians are the direct care providers within the organization.  They are supported by an administrative and supervisory staff, but they remain the primary face of the organization.  It is important that Clinicians maintain consistency, professionalism and kindness when interacting with other staff and clients. 

Supervision Requirements: Each Clinician is required to attend individual supervision as stipulated within their individual contract.          

• Clinicians are required to keep their supervisors appraised of all client’s progress, struggles or significant incidents, ethical or legal dilemmas involving clients, colleagues or administration.
• The status of their own mental and emotional health over time in working with this population so the supervisor may work with the therapist to inform the therapist of resources, develop a plan for recovery and prevent burn out.
• Reflective consultation is required as stipulated within individual contracts.
• Quarterly in supervision goals should be evaluated and supported by supervisor.
• Semi-annually Clinicians will receive an evaluation to support their growth and goal attainment. Evaluations are also provided to redirect Clinicians who are not meeting expressed expectations within this job description and/or TTC policy and procedures.