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Location: Miles City, MT | Schedule: Full-time, day shift, on-site | Compensation: $36.41hr-$54.62hr plus full benefits and relocation/sign on bonus

Overview

A progressive rural critical access hospital located in the picturesque Badlands of Eastern Montana is seeking a dedicated Occupational Therapist to join its healthcare team. This is an opportunity to provide meaningful, hands-on patient care in a close-knit community setting while enjoying a lower cost of living and strong career growth potential.

What you'll do

• Provide diagnostic evaluations and treatment to assigned patients to help them reach maximum functional performance within the community
• Administer comprehensive evaluations and document care in accordance with departmental standards and procedures
• Provide consultation on environmental design, adaptive equipment, patient positioning to prevent contractures, and splinting to schools, nursing homes, home care agencies, and hospital settings
• Maintain timely and accurate patient records and reports
• Design and administer treatment programs to increase patients' levels of functioning, using therapeutic exercises and activities to improve strength, range of motion, and fine-motor coordination
• Instruct patients in adapted techniques and adaptive equipment use for meal preparation, home management, dressing, feeding, and other self-care skills
• Train patients in the use of upper-extremity prosthetic devices to resume daily routines and participate in home assessments
• Provide neurological integration therapy, including sensor-motor integration treatment and visual perceptual-motor remediation programs
• Design and provide individualized therapy for adult learning-disabled patients
• Design and fabricate splints as specified by doctors' prescriptions, as well as slings and adaptive equipment for patients and families
• Administer treatment programs to traumatic brain-injured patients to improve judgment, reality orientation, and organizational skills
• Provide prevention therapy including instruction on energy conservation, joint protection, safety techniques for sensory loss, and transfer techniques, and instruct families in proper patient transfer to avoid back strain
• Assess patients' organizational skills, attention spans, cognitive abilities, coordination, and adaptive-equipment needs
• Design home programs and instruct patients or families in carrying them out
• Participate in patient support groups with the care team
• Provide evaluations and develop plans of care

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in occupational therapy required
• Current registration with the American Occupational Therapy Association required
• Licensed within the State of Montana

Compensation and benefits

• Pay range: $36.41hr-$54.62hr
• Full benefits
• Relocation/sign on bonus
• Day shift schedule

Why this role

This is an opportunity to join a top hospital with a great team environment, offering career growth in a progressive rural healthcare organization set in the picturesque Badlands of Eastern Montana, with a low cost of living and full benefits including a relocation/sign on bonus.