Travel Occupational Therapist (OT) - Long Term Care (LTC) (Days)
Mobile Health Team Inc. is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist (OT) - Long Term Care (LTC) for a 13-week travel assignment in El Paso, TX.
Contract Details
Days, 8 hr days
Start Date: 9/21/2026
Contract: 13 Weeks
Location: El Paso, TX
Hourly Pay: $ 25.00
Non-taxed Stipend: $1176.00
Weekly Total Pay: $ 1926.00
An occupational therapist (OT) helps people of all ages improve, recover, or maintain the skills needed for daily living and working by developing and implementing personalized treatment plans. OTs assess patients' physical, cognitive, and emotional needs, teach therapeutic activities, recommend assistive devices, adapt environments, and provide education to patients and their families to help them achieve greater independence and well-being
Key Responsibilities:
Facilitates development and rehabilitation of patients with mental, emotional, and physical disabilities by planning and administering medically prescribed occupational therapy.
Meets the patient’s goals and needs and provides quality care by assessing and interpreting evaluations and test results and determining occupational therapy treatment plans in consultation with physicians or by prescription.
Helps patient develop or regain physical or mental functioning or adjust to disabilities.
Implements programs involving manual arts and crafts, practice in functional, pre-vocational, vocational and homemaking skills and fosters activities of daily living.
Promotes maximum independence by selecting and constructing therapies according to individual’s physical capacity, intelligence level, and interest.
Prepares patient for return to employment by consulting with employers; determining potential employee difficulties; retraining employees; and helping employers understand necessary physical and job accommodations.
Evaluates results of occupational therapy by observing, noting, and evaluating patient’s progress and recommending and implementing adjustments and modifications.
Completes discharge planning by consulting with physicians, nurses, social workers, and other health care workers.
Assures continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge by designing and instructing patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs; recommending and/or providing assistive equipment and recommending outpatient or home health follow-up programs.
Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
Maintains patient confidence and protects hospital operations by keeping information confidential.
Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
Develops occupational therapy staff by providing information and developing and conducting in-service training programs.
Complies with federal, state, and local legal and certification requirements by studying existing and new legislation, anticipating future legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.