Job Description

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it?s just one of the many reasons we?ve achieved our six-consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. From working with a team of premier healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you?ll have everything you need to do something incredible-for yourself, and for others. Join us, and discover why we are tied #1 in California and ten years in a row on the "Best Hospitals" Honor Roll.

As a full time Occupational Therapy Assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Ca, you will help assist treating patients utilizing therapy modalities and procedures according to the prescription of the physicians, and the treatment established by the Occupational Therapist. Provides patient care consistent with the scope of ethics; the plan for the provision of care to patients, the plan for corporate compliance, the performance improvement plan and patient education plan. May report in team and/or patient family conferences. Assists in divisional growth and cohesiveness to ensure a high quality of patient care and assists in the education and /or training of students. Provides patient care while maintaining safety of the environment, utilizing appropriate communication with sensitivity and attention to special populations, including patients with diverse cultural backgrounds, age, developmental issues and physical disabilities.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

• Assoc. Degree/College Diploma Completion of formal education / training from an accredited institution leading to or required for a Occupational Therapy Assistant license.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Occupational Therapy Assistant License (OTA) California State license
• Basic Life Support by American Heart Association or American Red Cross

Experience:

• 1-2 years experience in acute therapy is preferred.

Physical Demands:

• Lifting, standing, walking, sitting, carrying, pushing, pulling
• The physical requirements described here are representative of those that are met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job, with or without reasonable accommodation.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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