# Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA)

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Logan, Utah
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: $29.43 - $45.39
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join our acute care team as a PRN Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA), where you'll play an important role in helping patients regain independence and safely transition through their recovery journey.

Working alongside experienced Occupational Therapists and an interdisciplinary care team, you'll provide patient-centred treatment to individuals with a variety of conditions in a fast-paced hospital setting.

**Essential Functions**

- Promotes mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, and abides by service standards.

- Provides skilled occupational therapy services under the direction and supervision of a licensed occupational therapist, staying updated on standard practices for different patient groups.

- Meets established productivity standards for the department or service line.

- Keeps thorough and timely patient records as required by regulations and facility policies.

- Completes patient billing accurately and promptly.

- Communicates effectively with patients, families, physicians, and healthcare providers about patient needs and goals.

- Participates in and promotes continuing education opportunities for self and staff, seeking new learning opportunities according to licensure requirements.

- Engages in quality improvement processes, including safe equipment use, improving clinical outcomes, patient access, patient experience and all aspects of the Intermountain Operating Model.

- Contributes to program development and marketing strategies to grow the occupational therapy program to achieve department goals.

**Skills**

- Quality Improvement

- Verbal and Written Communication

- Patient Engagement

- Critical Thinking

- Time Management

- Care Planning

- Compassion

**Qualifications**

- Current Occupational Therapist Assistant license in the 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.

**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.

**Salary** $29.43 - $45.39 per hour.

**Benefits** 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Quality Improvement
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Patient Engagement
- Critical Thinking
- Time Management
- Care Planning
- Compassion
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Basic Computer skills

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