• Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant

    Bensonhurst Center (Brooklyn, NY)


    The COT A under the direction of the OTR carries out treatment, document in-services to staff, fabrication of adaptive equipment as well as all of treatment interventions.

     

    Job Duties and Responsibilities

     

    + Carry out treatment program for individualized patients based on a pain developed by the OTR

    + Instruct patient in activities of daily living in order to increase independent self-care.

    + Work in interdisciplinary team to facilitate, to coordinate multiple inte (i.e., with Nursing, Recreation, Speech and Physical Therapy, etc.)

    + Identify need for and fabricate assistive devices and splints to meet the< individual patients.

    + Provide follow-up of assertive devices.

    + Write monthly/weekly progress notes on specific patients, dated and countersigned by the OTR.

    + Carries out Quality Assurance audits, as designated by the OTR.

    + Monitors ongoing wheelchair positioning program. Provides adaptive (positioning devices, as needed

    + Maintains inventory lists and informs OTR of equipment order needed

    + Carries out floor feeding programs.

    Qualifications:

    The COTA must have completed an approved course of study; Has to be certified by the New York State Education Department. Limited Permit accepted, Newly graduates accepted