Occupational Therapist (OT) Acute Care PRN

Occupational Therapist (OT) Acute Care PRN

Location: Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital | Lebanon, TN
Job Type: PRN
Setting: Acute Care / Inpatient Hospital
Schedule: Primarily weekend coverage with opportunities for additional weekday shifts as needed
Department: Occupational Therapy / Rehabilitation Services

Advance Healing. Restore Independence. Join Vanderbilt Health.

Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital is seeking a compassionate and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Acute Care Rehabilitation team on a PRN basis. This flexible opportunity is ideal for experienced clinicians seeking supplemental work or new graduates looking to build valuable hospital-based experience in a supportive, collaborative environment.

As an Occupational Therapist, you will help patients regain independence, improve functional performance, and safely transition to the next level of care. Working alongside physicians, nurses, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, and case management teams, you'll play an important role in delivering exceptional patient-centered care.

What You'll Do:

• Perform comprehensive occupational therapy evaluations and develop individualized treatment plans.

• Provide evidence-based interventions focused on activities of daily living (ADLs), functional mobility, self-care, and independence.

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to develop coordinated plans of care.

• Educate patients and caregivers on adaptive techniques, equipment recommendations, and home programs.

• Assist with discharge planning and recommendations for continued services.

• Document evaluations, treatments, and patient progress within the electronic medical record.

Patient Population:

Work with a diverse adult patient population recovering from orthopedic, neurological, cardiac, medical, and surgical conditions in an acute care hospital setting.

Qualifications:

• Current Tennessee Occupational Therapist license or eligibility for licensure.

• Graduate of an accredited Occupational Therapy program.

• Current CPR/BLS certification.

• Acute care or inpatient rehabilitation experience preferred but not required.

• New graduates are encouraged to apply.

• Strong communication, clinical reasoning, and time management skills.

Why Vanderbilt Health?

• Nationally Recognized Excellence: Be part of a health system known for outstanding patient care, innovation, and clinical expertise.

• Flexible Scheduling: Ideal for therapists seeking work-life balance or supplemental income.

• Collaborative Team Environment: Work alongside experienced rehabilitation and healthcare professionals.

• Professional Growth: Access mentorship, continuing education, and opportunities to expand your acute care skill set.

• Meaningful Impact: Help patients regain function, maximize independence, and improve quality of life.

Join Vanderbilt Health and make a difference every day by helping patients return to the activities that matter most. Apply today and become part of a team committed to excellence in rehabilitation and patient-centered care.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provides activity therapy assessments and occupational therapy assessments, written treatment and discharge plans.
• Attends and participates in designated treatment team meetings
• Plans and conducts daily activity therapy group sessions and programs, with individual therapy sessions as needed
• Completes appropriate documentation
• Participates in program Performance Improvement process

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
• Treatment Planning & Goal Setting (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery in developing a plan of care that incorporates treatment interventions focused on meeting objective goals. Develops and documents patient focused short and long term goals that are functional and measurable. Identifies the need for and referral to other services, as needed. May serve as a mentor for other clinical staff to develop their skills in treatment planning. May consult with team members or implement new procedures.
• Treatment Implementation (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery in providing treatment consistent with physician prescription and established plan of care. Able to modify treatment plan as needed to demonstrate provision of skilled therapy services including progression of treatment throughout course of care, and revision of treatment interventions of goals not met. Supervises and directs certified athletic trainers (PT only), physical therapist / occupational therapist assistants, technicians and volunteers and students. Selects and follows correct protocol for care, as established, and actively seek out, utilize and mentor/teach others on current evidence based treatment strategies. May consult with team members to offer suggestions for treatment strategies. May serve as a clinical content expert for practice area, initiates consultation with team members for advanced treatment of patients, develop forum for staff members to utilize clinical expertise.
• Rehabilitation Therapist Patient Evaluation (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery in evaluating patients with physical deficits including impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function by obtaining information pertinent to the assessment and administering and scoring standardized tests and objective measures of deficit areas. Selects appropriate measures and performs a functional assessment to document patient's status requiring skilled therapy. Interprets the results of the assessment and their significance to the patient, family, referring physician and other members of the health care team. Demonstrates experience in clinical evaluation skills and may serve as a mentor for other clinical staff to develop their skills in evaluation techniques. Contributes to the development of best practices for the organization. May consult with team members to implement new procedures.
• Physical/Occupational Therapist Patient Education (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery in communicating functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process. Able to adapt communication to needs/level of understanding of audience and share appropriate information/literature. May supervise, educate and train students from professional programs of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and athletic training and/or students and staff from other departments. Contributes in the development of patient education best practices for the organization.
• Rehab Therapist Patient Documentation (Intermediate): Demonstrates proficiency in documentation practices. Documents in the appropriate templates and utilizes only approved abbreviations within patient documentation. Meets institutional standards for quality and timeliness of documentation. May complete accurate chart audits of co-workers in the same classification category