Your Opportunity:
The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Occupational Therapist I is a member of an interdisciplinary team, providing assertive, client focused, culturally appropriate, community-based case management to adults experiencing severe and persistent mental illness. Clinical services are most often delivered off-site and targeted to those individuals whose illness presents a barrier to engagement in treatment. Services are most often delivered in the client\'s community and in partnership and collaboration with clients, families, other AHS providers, inner city shelters, agencies, and programs. Occupational Therapists in the ACT program are expected to work to full scope in a team management environment. Essential to the skill set of this position will be an understanding of how mental illness and addiction impact community functioning, clinical assessment of functional cognition using standardized methods, effective skill development and task analysis techniques, thorough understanding of occupational engagement, demonstration and implementation of recovery-oriented care, and knowledge of concurrent care best practices. Interventions designed for individuals will be based on the individual\'s presentation and personally defined goals and may require urgent responses, on-going support or short term consultation. The OT will be responsible for direct client care in coordination with other team members, cooperation with family and staff from other agencies involved in the individual\'s life and the development and enhancement of natural supports with the goal of facilitating the highest level of independence and self-management.
Description:
As an Occupational Therapist (OT), you will provide evidence-informed services, with a focus on occupational performance designed to meet the needs of individuals, groups, or a community. You may act as a direct service provider, consultant, educator, or advocate and function as an integral health care team member. You will engage individuals, groups, and communities to enable meaningful and chosen occupations, including self-care, productivity and leisure. You will support clients to achieve optimum functional abilities and independence related to their cognitive, affective, spiritual, and physical strengths and limitations. As an OT, you will provide comprehensive services, including triage, screening, consultation, assessment, diagnosis, collaborative goal setting, treatment, prevention, self-management, education, case management, referral, transition support, and collaboration with relevant and chosen stakeholders and supports within the client\xc2\xbfs physical, institutional, cultural, and social environments. You will include clients and families as integral members of the health care team, encouraging their active participation in all aspects of care. You will collaborate with clients and families in determining, implementing, and evaluating rehabilitation. You will participate in a variety of interprofessional teams to build awareness, enrich support and engage in quality improvement by partnering with healthcare providers, patients, families, and other stakeholders to advance services for the clients. You will contribute to quality improvement and their professional community and participate in peer mentoring and supervising students. You may also provide clinical supervision to Therapy Assistants and Therapy Aides.
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