• Help clients with rehabilitative activities and exercises outlined in a treatment plan developed in collaboration with an occupational therapist.
• Monitor an individual?s activities to make sure that they are performed correctly and to provide encouragement.
• Record their client?s progress for the occupational therapist.
• Document the billing of the client?s health insurance provider.
• Prepare materials and assemble equipment used during treatment.
• Schedule appointments, answer the telephone.
• Restock or order depleted supplies, and fill out insurance forms or other paperwork.
• Alter treatment programs to obtain better results if treatment is not having the intended effect.
• Assemble, clean, and maintain equipment and materials for patient use.
• Design, fabricate, and repair assistive devices and make adaptive changes to equipment and environments.
• Demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual and creative arts, and games.
• Evaluate the daily living skills and capacities of physically, developmentally or emotionally disabled clients.
• Implement, or assist occupational therapists with implementing, treatment plans designed to help clients function independently.
• Instruct, or assist in instructing, patients and families in home programs, basic living skills, and the care and use of adaptive equipment.
• Monitor patients? performance in therapy activities, providing encouragement.
• Observe and record patients? progress, attitudes, and behavior, and maintain this information in client records.
• Order any needed educational or treatment supplies.
• Report to supervisors, verbally or in writing, on patients? progress, attitudes and behavior.
• Select therapy activities to fit patients? needs and capabilities.
• Work under the direction of occupational therapists to plan, implement and administer educational, vocational, and recreational programs that restore and enhance performance in individuals with functional impairments.
• Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client?s abilities or progress.
• Aid patients in dressing and grooming themselves.
• Maintain and promote a positive attitude toward clients and their treatment programs.
• Perform clerical duties such as scheduling appointments, collecting data, and documenting health insurance billings.
• Teach patients how to deal constructively with their emotions.
• Transport patients to and from the occupational therapy work area.

Education

Required:

    Associates

Licenses & Certifications

Required:

    L-Occ Therapy Asst

    C-Cert Occ Therapy Asst

Preferred:

    C-CPI

    C-BLS

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About CHRISTUS Health

CHRISTUS HEALTH is an international Catholic, faith-based, not-for-profit health system comprised of almost more than 600 services and facilities, including more than 60 hospitals and long-term care facilities, 350 clinics and outpatient centers, and dozens of other health ministries and ventures. CHRISTUS operates in 6 U.S. states, Colombia, Chile and 6 states in Mexico. To support our health care ministry, CHRISTUS Health employs approximately 45,000 Associates and has more than 15,000 physicians on medical staffs who provide care and support for patients. CHRISTUS Health is listed among the top ten largest Catholic health systems in the United States.

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