Pool Occupational Therapist, Rehabilitation Service Admin Office
Job type
Full Time
Qualification
Diploma
Experience
1 year
Location
Nairobi
Deadline
Oct 14
Job description & requirements
Responsibilities:
- Conduct initial evaluation and assessment of patients referred for occupational therapy.
- Identify treatment goals and appropriate therapy techniques and proceed to administer them.
- Conduct patient and family education.
- To conduct regular evaluation of patients to assess progress and response to therapy, revise treatment program as necessary to achieve goals.
- To evaluate the patients’, need for assistive, supportive and adoptive devices.
- Maintain daily treatment notes evaluation of patient’s progress and discharge planning notes and summaries.
- Assign patients to the assistants or interns with laid out treatment plans and supervise their treatment.
- To control infection by observing hygiene rules.
- Maintain professional proficiency through review of current literature and attendance into continuing medical education programs in line with the occupational therapy accreditation requirements.
- To have a full knowledge of the hospital policies & procedures, protocols, guidelines and adhere to the same.
- Carry out clinical and service audits and evaluate improvement of services.
- Supervising and delegating tasks to physiotherapy assistants and service attendants
- Ensuring functionality of equipment by participating in regular maintenance/monitoring & testing to ensure minimum equipment downtime.
- Participate in planning and implementation of department goals and objectives to enable optimal performance.
- Observe and comply with environment health and occupational safety measures.
- Participate in the implementation of quality initiative and patient safety programs.
- Responsibility for CCPC stroke program as maybe assigned.
Requirements:
- Diploma in Occupational Therapy from a recognized institution/college
- Registered with Kenya Occupational Therapy Association
- Basic life support certification
- Preferably 1-year experience as an Occupational Therapist
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