Job Title: COTA
Facility: Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home
Address: 1180 Waianuenue Avenue, Hilo, HI 96720
Contract: 13 Weeks
Shift: Variable (5 days work week. Day shift)
Pay: $2580/hr (Traveller) - $64.5/hr
Complete pay package:
Gross pay: $2580/week (Based on hours you worked)
Taxable: $640/week ($16/hr on W2)
Non-Taxable: $1940/week (Perdiem)
License Note: Any traveler not currently in possession of an active State of HI license must apply upon acceptance of offer.
Candidate must have Hawaii License by start of assignment.
Job Description:
Responsibilities vary based on discipline, licensure, and scope of practice. Employees are expected to perform only those duties permitted under applicable state law and professional practice standards.
General Job Duties:
- Provide rehabilitation services in a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) and/or Intermediate Care Facility (ICF)
- Perform evaluations, reassessments, treatments, and other clinical services consistent with licensure, discipline, and scope of practice.
- Develop, implement, or carry out individualized treatment plans in collaboration with supervising therapist, physician, and interdisciplinary team, as appropriate to the role.
- Implement evidence-based therapeutic interventions to maximize function, independence, communication, mobility, swallowing, and quality of life, as applicable to the discipline.
- Educate residents, families, and caregivers regarding treatment plans and patient progress.
- Complete accurate, timely, and compliant documentation. Documenting progress, changes in plan of care, and discharges according to facility, state, federal, and payer requirements.
- Supervise therapy assistants, when applicable to role.
- Must be available to work Hawaii State and Federal Holidays as necessary based on facility operations.
Required skills and minimum years of experience:
- Minimum two (2) years of experience in the SNF/ICF setting preferred.
- Specific licensures and certifications:
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Current State of Hawaii license (Before Start)
- Shift of scheduled requirements:
- Generally scheduled five (5) days/week but likely to include one weekend day.
- Possible floating to other units or facilities based on census and staffing needs.
- Training:
- Orientation to the rehabilitation department, EMR documentation (Net Health Rehab Optima & Epic), and facility workflows provided.