Occupational Therapist

CHI Oakes Hospital is a 20-bed critical access hospital that provides various inpatient and outpatient services to approximately 14,000 people in southeastern North Dakota. It is also a 24-Hour Emergency Level V Trauma Center. The hospital building was newly-constructed in 2007 replacing a 50-year old building and in 2010 Oakes Community Clinic was opened within the hospital building. The hospital is part of a larger values-based organization CommonSpirit Health.

As a Occupational Therapist at CHI Oakes Hospital, now part of CommonSpirit Health formed between Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health, you’ll help our patients regain their independence and quality of life so they can safely go about their daily activities.

You'll provide rehabilitative services to primarily pediatric patients with mental, physical, emotional, or developmental impairments as well as occasional adult patients. Occupational therapists use treatments to develop, recover, or maintain the daily living and work skills of their patients. You’ll see a variety of patients daily with issues in several areas, including orthopedic, neurological, sensory, and cancer recovery, to name a few. You’ll evaluate and re-evaluate patients and provide physicians with updates on improvements to the patient’s daily life. You’re truly the bridge between physical therapy and speech therapy. 

To thrive in this role, you must be flexible and adaptable. You’ll care for all patient populations presenting with a variety of conditions. You need to be extremely organized and efficient. You’ll see many patients each workday and will be required to document all evaluations, treatments, and status changes. Most importantly, you must be positive, personable, and motivating. While the entire care team works to treat illnesses and injuries, therapists truly motivate patients to get active and get better. It can be a long road for some patients, and a therapist who remains upbeat and energetic can make all the difference.

What you'll do...

• Demonstrates competence with clinical skills necessary to provide care appropriately to all the patient groups served by the occupational therapy service.
• Performs evaluations/assessments, develops, re-evaluates and adjusts the Plan of Care for each individual.
• Provides treatments as included in POC .
• Provides instruction in/demonstration of equipment, treatments, disease process, self-care and exercises to patients, family, and staff.
• Provides timely and accurate documentation of services provided in the medical record, per policy.
• Communicates with medical, nursing and other Rehab staff.
• Staff will strive to provide service to patients or clients by filling our service promise of Kind, Compassionate Care, Every Person, Every Time.
• Staff will maintain an awareness of overall safety in regards for all athletes, patients and clients.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

• Graduate of Occupational Therapy program from an accredited institution. 
• Occupational Therapy License (OT:ND)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) issued by the American Heart Association.