Senior / Occupational Therapist

Location : Tampines Care Home / Senja Care Home

The Senior / Occupational Therapist develops and provides the rehabitative care and services based on the care model, to residents of the Nursing Home(s). You will work with the residents of the nursing home to achieve optimal independence by improving and restoring their abilities in self-care, daily living, work and leisure. You will also provide functional, physical, cognitive and psychosocial assessments to understand their rehabilitation needs and set realistic goals with them. This may include training of daily activities, home assessment and modification, leisure exploration and work rehabilitation and working with the residents to help them reintegrated back to the community and return to their life roles. You will also educate and provide training for family members and caregivers on care-giving skills.

Clinical Care

• Assess, evaluate and identify rehabilitation needs of residents; formulate / develop and implement appropriate individualised occupational therapy programmes to facilitate, restore, improve or maintain their abilities to perform self-care, work, leisure activities and meaningful life roles.
• Evaluate, monitor and review treatment on a regular basis to document needs and progress of service users and ensure that treatment is appropriate and effective.
• Evaluate and prescribe assistive devices to improve function in activities of daily living as required by residents.
• Maintain good communication and liaise with various disciplines involved in the rehabilitation process and refer residents to respective professionals for consultation and appropriate intervention

Training & Development

Administration

Requirements

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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