Occupational Therapist I

Posting number: V5VG-2022A

Department: Health Services - Continuous

Job classification: Occupational Therapist I

Posting type: Open

Categories: Health Services

Summary

Bargaining Unit: Local 856 - Health Services Unit 
Contra Costa County Health Services Department is recruiting individuals on a continuous basis to fill entry level Occupational Therapist positions.  Therapists may be assigned to the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and its Health Centers or the California Children Services Programs located throughout the County.
 
Occupational Therapist I is an entry level classification requiring no experience.  Incumbents in this classification perform a full range of general therapy treatments while developing and learning the skills and knowledge necessary to apply more advanced and/or specialized treatments.
 
To read the complete job description, please visit the website www.cccounty.us/hr
 
The eligible list established from this recruitment may remain in effect for six months.

Examples of duties

• Evaluates, plans and implements treatment including but not limited to the following areas:
• Self-care including feeding, oral bulbar function, dressing, grooming, bathing, skin inspection and toileting
• Functional mobility including positioning, transfers, wheelchair prescription and mobility training, topographic orientation, joint motion and muscle function
• Upper extremity function, including prehension, coordination, range, strength, sensation, pain, joint protection and hand function
• Adaptive/assistive equipment and splints including prescription, design, fabricating or applying selected orthotics or equipment
• Home management including energy conservation and work simplification, budgeting, meal preparation, household tasks and group living skills
• Community skills including shopping, use of transportation, safety, pre-vocational/vocational assessment and work skills, social behaviors, play and leisure pursuits
• Visual-perceptual ability including visual scanning, figure-ground discrimination, vision, fields, spatial relations and visual-motor integration
• Motor and sensory/motor development
• Functional cognition including orientation, attention, memory, analysis discrimination, seriation, organization, categorization, integration, judgement and problem-solving
• Learns to perform specialized and advanced therapy treatments
• Explains occupational therapy recommendations to patients and their families and provides patient and family education and training
• Provides consultation and education relative to therapy treatment considerations
• Collaborates with other care providers to ensure proper patient treatment and follow-up
• Secures and returns clinic supplies and equipment and maintains required records and statistics
• Prepares reports of patient treatment, treatment and discharge, planning and evaluation of treatment services
• Provides training and work direction to aides, assistants, interns and volunteers
• Consults with other therapists as needed

Qualifications

Certificate: Possession and maintenance of a valid License or limited Permit to practice as an Occupational Therapist issued by the California Board of Occupational Therapy.
 
Certification: Must possess and maintain a current Basic Life Support (BLS) certificate issued by the American Heart Association or a CPR certification issued by the American Red Cross. 
 
Experience:  None Required
 
OTHER REQUIREMENTS: A background investigation/fingerprint and/or physical exam may be required prior to the start of employment.
 

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