Description
Join the expert pediatric rehabilitation team at Primary Children’s Hospital as a Part-Time Occupational Therapist serving the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
In this specialised role, you will partner with an interdisciplinary team to support critically ill and medically complex children, helping maximise function, promote recovery, and support patients and families throughout their hospital journey.
This position offers a consistent Monday and Tuesday schedule, making it an excellent opportunity for an experienced therapist seeking meaningful pediatric acute care work with flexibility.
Previous PICU experience is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Promote the mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, and abide by service standards.
- Provide skilled occupational therapy services, staying updated on standard practices for different patient groups.
- Conduct evaluations and treatments according to professional standards (AOTA), considering diagnosis, history, and physician referrals, and develop care plans with specific goals based on patient assessments.
- Meet established productivity standards for the department or service line.
- Keep thorough and timely patient records as required by regulations and facility policies.
- Complete patient billing accurately and promptly.
- Communicate effectively with patients, families, physicians, and healthcare providers about patient needs and goals.
- Manage all aspects of patient care and education, including supervising assistants, aides, office staff, and students to ensure high-quality care.
- Participate in and promote continuing education opportunities for self and staff, seeking new learning opportunities according to licensure requirements.
- Engage in quality improvement processes, including safe equipment use, improving clinical outcomes, patient access, patient experience, and all aspects of the Intermountain Operating Model.
- Participate in utilisation review audits.
- Participate in patient care conferences, interdisciplinary meetings, staff meetings, and necessary professional and work groups in collaboration/consensus with leader.
- Contribute to program development and marketing strategies to grow the physical therapy program and achieve department goals.
Requirements
- Current Occupational Therapist license in states where you work.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers.
- Basic Computer skills.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
- Possess skill sets and experience with target population of job setting.
- Current driver’s license, reliable transportation, and acceptable driving record.
- PICU experience, preferred.
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.
- Expected to lift and utilise full range of movement to transfer patients.
- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment.
Benefits
We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
Schedule
- Scheduled Weekly Hours: 20
- Hourly range: $43.09 - $66.47