{"id":4648,"date":"2024-02-14T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/?page_id=4648"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:58:40","slug":"occupational-therapist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/classified-staff\/occupational-therapist\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupational Therapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>21372 (NE H SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional)<br \/>\n23003 (NE H NI SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional)<\/p>\n<p><strong>BASIC FUNCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Assess patients, plan, and implement occupational therapy; complete related documentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Single class \u2013 no series. Under general supervision, assess patient needs and confer with other staff to plan occupational therapy intervention as needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPICAL WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evaluate and treat patients with a variety of physical and mental impairments to achieve maximum functional capacity;<\/p>\n<p>Confer with medical and other staff members to determine occupational therapy program for individual patients; select situations or activities which require desired motions or actions or help modify behavior and teach the skills necessary to the activity;<\/p>\n<p>Report data in both written and oral form following policies and procedures;<\/p>\n<p>Participate as a member of an interdisciplinary team and work with patient and family in developing treatment goals and evaluating patient progress;<\/p>\n<p>Provide treatment and training to increase daily living skills;<\/p>\n<p>Attend and participate in medical rounds and professional meetings with medical consultants;<\/p>\n<p>Maintain service related records; adhere to documentation requirements for reimbursement purposes;<\/p>\n<p>Evaluate and recommend modifications to community, home and work sites.<\/p>\n<p>Adapt and fabricate basic orthotic devices and therapeutic equipment;<\/p>\n<p>Recommend and issue occupational therapy materials and equipment;<\/p>\n<p>Maintain a clean, safe working environment;<\/p>\n<p>May provide work direction and instruction to occupational therapist students, occupational therapy assistants, and other personnel in the performance of therapeutic activities; and<\/p>\n<p>Perform other duties as required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEGAL REQUIREMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Licensed by the state of Washington as an Occupational Therapist or has a valid limited permit issued by the state of Washington to practice occupational therapy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graduation from an accredited Occupational Therapy Program and successful completion of American Occupational Therapy certification examination.<\/p>\n<p>Equivalent education and\/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and\/or registration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLASSIFICATION HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>02\/12\/2024: Class spec written<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP 21372 (NE H SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional) 23003 (NE H NI SEIU 1199NW UWMC Northwest Professional) BASIC FUNCTION Assess patients, plan, and implement occupational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4648","page","type-page","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9415,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4648\/revisions\/9415"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}