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Job Description Able Health Care Service is looking to fill an administrative staff position. This is a great opportunity to join our team. We are looking for per-diem Occupational Therapist to service our patients. Responsibilities • Provides occupational therapy services., • Assesses, treats, and instructs patient/clients in the development, improvement, and restoration of the performance of necessary functions, compensation for dysfunctions, and/or tempering of disability., • Administers and interprets diagnostic and prognostic tests of function and applied therapeutic procedures., • Evaluates the patient, confers with the physicians, and participates in the development, maintenance, and periodic re-evaluation of the Physicians Plan of Treatment and the Plan of Care., • Utilizes professional skills and judgment in treating patients to increase strength, coordination, range-of-motion, and function of effected extremities and to retrain damaged nerve pathways or to teach compensation utilizing remaining innovations., • Constructs splints to prevent deformities and additional devices to increase independence for the physically impaired., • Other duties as required Qualifications • Graduate from an occupational therapy curriculum with a Baccalaureate Degree or Certificate in Occupational Therapy and approved by New York State Education Department., • The candidate must be an Occupational Therapist licensed/certified by and currently registered with the New York State Education Department or who has been issued a valid permit by that department., • Requires acute or homecare experience within the last two years., • After school/Day program hours Work setting