locationsIntermountain Health Lutheran Hospital
time typePart time
posted onPosted 7 Days Ago
time left to applyEnd Date: April 12, 2025 (10 days left to apply)
job requisition idR126407
Job Description:The Occupational Therapist provides direct patient services that may include identifying, evaluating, diagnosing, and treating. This position also provides indirect services including consulting, advising, teaching, and training patients and their caregivers.
Posting Specifics- Shift Details: PRN (as needed)
- Unit/Location: Lutheran Hospital
Are you interested in advancing your career while helping people live the healthiest lives possible? As an Occupational Therapist at Intermountain Health, you will play a vital role in supporting our clinical team, ensuring our patients receive the best care. At Intermountain, you will be part of a team that values career advancement, innovation, and collaboration, where your skills are valued and your contributions make a lasting impact.
What does it mean to be a caregiver with Intermountain? Check out this video and learn more and discover the "Power of We."
As an Occupational Therapist at Intermountain Health, you will play a vital role in supporting our clinical team, ensuring our patients receive the best care by:- Providing Patient Care: Evaluating a patient upon initial encounter to determine need for occupational therapy intervention and making referrals to other treatment team members as deemed appropriate. Planning occupational therapy treatment program for each patient, based upon interpretation of evaluation results; interpreting evaluation findings for patient, family, and treatment team members. Developing realistic goals with patient input; explaining treatment plan and goals to patient. Implementing treatment or supervising treatment provided by Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant, or occupational therapy student. Delegating routine care to supportive personnel as appropriate. Terminating occupational therapy services when patient has attained maximum benefit from occupational therapy; providing in-service education to members of treatment team to ensure follow-through of treatment program.
- Effective Communication: Evaluating, recording, and reporting on a patient's progress for review by other members of the rehabilitative team. Communicating effectively with physician, other members of rehabilitation team, and others as indicated regarding treatment plan and patient response to plan. Completing all required documentation thoroughly and in a timely manner.
- Team Collaboration: Promoting the mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, and abiding by service behavior standards. Performing other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited school of Occupational Therapy
- Current license as an Occupational Therapist in the State of practice
- Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association
Preferred Qualifications- At least one (1) year of experience in a setting serving the same age/type of patient population served by this facility or department
- Critical Care Experience, strongly preferred
Physical Requirements:Hearing/listening, lifting, manual dexterity, pulling/pushing, seeing, sitting, speaking, squatting/kneeling, standing, and walking.
Location:Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital
Work City:Wheat Ridge
Work State:Colorado
Scheduled Weekly Hours:0
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$37.46 - $57.80
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.
Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here .
Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
All positions subject to close without notice.
As the largest nonprofit health system in the Mountain West, Intermountain Health is dedicated to creating healthier communities and helping our patients and caregivers thrive.
It s time to think of health in a whole new way, and by partnering with our patients and communities, providing expert care closer to home, and making great health more affordable, we can help more people get and stay well. We proudly invest back into improving the care we deliver, and our pioneering research is making healthcare more personalized, effective, and affordable.
Serving patients and communities throughout the Mountain West, primarily in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming, Intermountain includes 34 hospitals, 400+ clinics, a medical group, affiliate networks, homecare, telehealth, health insurance plans, and other services - along with wholly owned subsidiaries including Select Health, Castell, Tellica Imaging, and Classic Air Medical.
Our Caregiver Promise: Together, for the healthiest lives We celebrate the different perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and identities our caregivers bring to their work every day at Intermountain. Across all areas of our integrated health system, we proudly share best practices, knowledge, and techniques to better serve our patients, communities, and each other.
Here, you ll work alongside collaborative and curious minds who will support you, encourage you, inspire you, advocate for you, and challenge you to be your very best.
Our Values Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us.
Our action-oriented values, inspired and shaped by our own caregivers, speak to what it means to be part of Intermountain.
- We are leaders in clinical excellence, delivering safe, best-in-quality care
- We believe in what we do, living our mission every day
- We serve with empathy, caring for each caregiver, patient, and member with compassion and respect
- We are partners in health, collaborating to keep people well
- We do the right thing, learning and acting with purpose
- We are better together, building community through teamwork and belonging