You’ll need
Licensure
✓OT - Occupational Therapist Texas Occupational Therapy License Upon Hire Required And
Certifications
✓BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly R equired.
Education
✓Bachelor's Degree Completion of an Occupational Therapy program Required.
Qualifications
✓No Experience required – new grads are welcome!
✓Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
✓Problem- solving ability; Ability to teach others.
✓Time management skills; Good interpersonal and customer service skills, Basic leadership skills.
Prefer experience with adult population, acute care hospital-based, inpatient experience. preferred
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision401(k)Paid time offTuition assistancePaid parental leave
Texas Health
Nonprofit · Arlington, TX · 21 hospitals
816open roles
1OT role open at this facility
34 miFort Worth to Dallas
Full employer posting
- Occupational Therapist (OT) Acute Care Full-time Bring your passion to Texas Health so we are Better + Together
- Work location: Texas Health Ft. Worth, 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Ft. Worth, TX 76104
- Therapy Services Work hours: Full-time, 40 hours/week, Monday-Friday, 8:00AM-4:30PM; Weekends: 1 weekend day per quarter; Holidays: 1 holiday per year (Memorial Day, Juneteenth, July 4 th , Labor Day, New Years Day) and rotational basis of less than once every 10 years to work either Thanksgiving or Christmas day. Therapy Services highlights:
- Supporting the 815-bed, Magnet-designated, full-service hospital that has served the Ft. Worth and surrounding community since 1930
- Supportive team of over 40 Occupational Therapists in an acute care trauma hospital – focus on inpatient. Here’s What You Need
- Bachelor's Degree Completion of an Occupational Therapy program Required.
- No Experience required – new grads are welcome!
- Prefer experience with adult population, acute care hospital-based, inpatient experience.
- OT - Occupational Therapist Texas Occupational Therapy License Upon Hire Required And
- BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly R equired.
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Problem- solving ability; Ability to teach others.
- Time management skills; Good interpersonal and customer service skills, Basic leadership skills.
- Performs age-appropriate patient assessment and establishes plan of care.
- Uses therapeutic treatment techniques appropriate to patient age and desire for treatment.
- Educates patient and family through instruction, demonstration, and/or appropriate handouts in treatment plan, safety issues, home programs/self-management and assistive equipment.
- Documents all aspects of assessment, plan of care, and re-certifications in accordance with departmental, TJC, Medicare, and other applicable regulatory guidelines.
- Works in partnership with peers, other disciplines, and departmental personnel
- Focus on Daily Living Skills, Mobility and Cognition of patients. Additional perks of being a Texas Health Occupational Therapist
- Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flexible spending, tuition reimbursement, student Loan repayment program, as well as several other benefits .
- Delivery of high quality of patient care through evidence-based care.
- As the only Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center in Fort Worth and a Level 1 Trauma center, you will join a team of highly motivated clinicians that take pride in the quality of care provided.
- A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
- Explore our Texas Health careers site for info like Benefits , Job Listings by Category , recent Awards we’ve won and more. Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org .
About the role
Supportive team of over 40 Occupational Therapists in an acute care trauma hospital – focus on inpatient. Performs age-appropriate patient assessment and establishes plan of care. Uses therapeutic treatment techniques appropriate to patient age and desire for treatment.