Join Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world class and caregivers are family. Here, you will work alongside a passionate and dedicated team, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

Occupational Therapists provide many wide-ranging services tohelp patients improve their ability toperform normal activities of daily living.Whether from aphysical injury, stroke,cognitive differences,surgeryor general aging,your work as an OT helpsmaximize their confidence in performingself-care,workingand managing life responsibilities.

This is a full-time role. A caregiver in this position will work Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 5:00pm for the first 90 days. After the first 90 days there will be a late day working 10:00am to 6:30pm and one day from 9:15pm to 5:45pm. No weekends or holidays required.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Evaluate and treat patients with physical, emotional,cognitiveand/or psychosocial deficits whichimpacttheir abilities to successfully perform independent living skills.

• Assess patient ability tosafely and effectively perform independent living skills and design the appropriate plan of care, including type and frequency of treatment.

• Implement the treatment plan usingappropriate modalitiesand document subjective and objective findings of patient progress.

• Educate the patient and family/caregiver about patient deficits.

• Direct and supervise the activities of support personnel.

• Acta clinical instructor orparticipatein the education and evaluation of students.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Graduate of an Occupational Therapy Program accredited by the American Occupational Therapy Association

• Current Ohio licensure as an Occupational Therapist (OT)

• Basic Life Support (BLS), HealthcareProviderCertificationthrough the American Heart Association (AHA)or American Red Cross

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Experience in clinical area
• Experience working with lymphedema, certification with lymphedema also preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to walk without assistive device and to maintain balance despite sudden load in order to support patient from falling.

• Ability to meet physical demands characterized at the heavy level defined by 1993 Leonard Matheson and Ministry of Labor.

• Ability to lift and reach with arms sufficiently to lift patient's arm and leg during therapeutic treatment program.

• Sensation of touch and manual dexterity to be able to palpate muscle tension or to monitor patient pulse.

• Visual acuity to observe patient's gross and fine motor movements in order to analyze these movements and to read all patient monitors.

• Ability to speak clearly enough to instruct patients and families.

• Ability to hear at a conversational level to understand patient's description of symptoms and response to treatment.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.