Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Teaching hospital delivering patient-centered medical care

Lead Occupational Therapist 3 - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Rehabilitation TherapiesConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeUnited StatesIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy is required.
An Occupational Therapist license is required.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is required.
Five to eight years of related work experience is required.
Basic familiarity with computers and the ability to navigate web-based applications are required.
The role requires the ability to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices, interpreting information and recommending solutions to moderately complex problems.
The role requires the ability to address varied problems through analysis or interpretation, using observation, knowledge, skills, and general precedents.
The role requires the ability to set goals and determine how to achieve results within some guidelines, with broad guidance and overall direction from a manager or director.
The role requires the ability to summarize and communicate moderately complex information in English in varied written formats.
The role requires the ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to staff, patients, families, and external customers.
The role requires working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures, and policies, and the ability to apply them in varied situations.
The role requires the ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve operations by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.
The role requires the ability to provide customer service and staff training and resolve service issues in a timely and respectful manner.
The role requires competence in providing patient care to young adults aged 16–30, middle-aged adults aged 30–60, and elderly adults aged 60 and over.
The role requires sustained close attention, adaptability, independent judgment, and priority management.
The role involves potential daily exposure to protective equipment requirements, infectious diseases, airborne pathogens, and bloodborne pathogens.
The role involves regular day-to-day face-to-face and hands-on patient contact within three feet for at least five minutes.
The role requires close work, color vision and perception, visual clarity, hot/cold and sharp/dull detection, smell, conversation, monitoring equipment, telephone use, and working amid background noise.
The role requires medium physical work, exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and up to 20 pounds frequently, with standing and moving for most of the shift.
The role requires walking, standing, endurance for five to six hours without a break, bending and twisting the neck and waist, repetitive crouching, fine manipulation with both hands, pushing and pulling with both hands, keyboard use, reaching above and below shoulder height, lifting and carrying up to 10 and 25 pounds, and pushing up to 10 and 25 pounds.
The role may require sitting, maintaining a crouch for more than five minutes, climbing, power grasping with both hands, lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, repositioning patients up to 100 pounds without assistance or up to 250 pounds with assistance, pushing up to 75 pounds, and pushing 100 pounds or more.
Rare duties may require lifting or carrying up to 75 pounds and pushing a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient up to 250 pounds with assistance.
Staff must be vaccinated against influenza as a condition of employment.

Responsibilities

Evaluate patients, discuss findings and plan of care with patients, implement plans of care, and regularly reevaluate patient status and plans of care.
Provide care independently at an advanced competence level to a diverse patient population approximately 85% of the time.
Provide clinical guidance, staff triage, program development, or clinical research as needed, approximately 15% of the time.
Teach patients and families; teach and supervise students; prepare and present in-services; and deliver educational lectures within and outside the department and medical center.
Mentor, orient, and assess the competence and ongoing performance of less experienced therapists, therapy assistants, rehabilitation aides, practice assistants, and support personnel, and communicate results to managers or supervisors.
Provide leadership to designated clinical programs; collect, analyze, and review statistics and outcome measures; and recommend performance improvements.
Collaborate with a supervisor or manager to organize, direct, distribute, and coordinate work.
Set professional goals and take on additional responsibilities in program development, teaching, quality assurance, performance improvement, research, and administration as appropriate to department or service needs.
Support an environment of idea sharing and feedback exchange across the service and department.
Manage a defined caseload and perform administrative duties, including data collection and record keeping, billing, face-time sheets, quality assurance improvement activities, participation on hospital and departmental committees as requested, and attendance at department meetings and in-services as required.

Desired Qualifications

A master's degree is preferred.
AOTA membership is preferred.

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

The Occupational Therapist III (OT III) is autonomously responsible for examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, and discharge planning for the occupational therapy needs of patients who have potential for functional impairments, limitations, and disabilities and are referred to occupational therapy. Additional responsibilities include clinical leadership for a specific patient care program and assessment of staff clinical performance

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities

Evaluate patients, discuss findings and plan of care with patient, implement plan of care, regularly re-evaluate patient status and plan of care. Demonstrate independence at an advanced competence level, providing care to a diverse patient population approximately 85% of the time. Provide clinical guidance, staff triage, program development, or clinical research as needed 15% of the time. (Essential)
Perform teaching responsibilities, including but not limited to: Teaching patients and families Teaching and supervising students Preparing and presenting in-services Educational lectures within and outside the department and medical center (Essential)
Mentor, orient, and assess competence and ongoing performance of less experienced therapists, therapy assistants, rehab aides, practice assistants, and support personnel, and communicate results to managers or supervisors. (Essential)
Provide leadership to designated clinical programs. Collect, analyze, and review statistics and outcome measures with recommendations for performance improvement. Collaborate with supervisor or manager to organize, direct, distribute, and coordinate work. (Essential)
Demonstrate initiative, seek opportunities, accept additional responsibilities, and set professional goals in areas of program development, teaching, quality assurance, performance improvement, research, and administration, as appropriate to meet identified department or service needs. Support an environment of idea sharing and feedback exchange across the service and department. (Essential)
Manage a defined caseload and perform all administrative responsibilities, including but not limited to :Data collection and record keeping Billing Face-time sheets QAI activities Participation on hospital and departmental committees as requested Attendance at department meetings and in-services as required (Essential)

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy required. Master's degree preferred.
Occupational Therapist License required.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
5-8 years of related work experience required.
Basic familiarity with computers and ability to navigate web-based applications.

Preferred Qualifications

AOTA membership.

Competencies

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices requiring interpretation. May recommend solutions to moderately complex problems.
Problem Solving: Ability to address varied problems requiring analysis or interpretation using observation, knowledge, and skills based on general precedents.
Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determine how to achieve results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate moderately complex information in English in varied written formats.
Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to staff, patients, families, and external customers.
Knowledge: Demonstrates full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures, and policies and can apply them in varied situations.
Team Work: Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve operations by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.
Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training and resolve service issues in a timely and respectful manner.

Age-Based Competencies

Must be competent to provide patient care to:

Young adult: 16-30 years
Middle age: 30-60 years
Elderly: 60+ years

Social/Environmental Requirements

Work requires periods of close attention without interruption; concentrated effort of up to 4 hours may be required.
Work varies daily and requires adaptability, independent judgment, and priority management.
Daily potential exposure to: Protective equipment requirements (mask, gloves, eyewear, respirator, earplugs, etc.) Infectious diseases and airborne pathogens Bloodborne pathogens

Health Care Status

HCW1: Regular day-to-day contact with patients, including face-to-face and hands-on contact within three feet for at least five minutes.

Sensory Requirements

Close work (paperwork, visual examination)
Color vision/perception
Visual clarity
Hot/Cold detection
Sharp/Dull detection
Smell
Conversation
Monitoring equipment
Telephone
Background noise

Physical Requirements

Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and up to 20 pounds frequently. The position is physical in nature and requires standing and moving for most of the shift.

Constant Activities

Walking
Standing
Endurance (working 5-6 hours without a break)
Bending neck and waist
Twisting neck and waist
Repetitive crouching
Fine manipulation using both hands
Pushing/pulling using both hands
Keyboard use
Reaching above and below shoulder height
Lifting/carrying up to 10 lbs
Lifting/carrying up to 25 lbs
Pushing up to 10 lbs
Pushing up to 25 lbs

Frequent/Occasional Activities

Sitting
Maintaining crouch for more than 5 minutes
Climbing
Power grasping using both hands
Lifting/carrying up to 50 lbs
Repositioning patients up to 100 lbs without assistance
Repositioning patients up to 250 lbs with assistance
Pushing up to 75 lbs
Pushing 100+ lbs

Rare Activities

Lifting/carrying up to 75 lbs
Pushing a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient up to 250 lbs with assistance

Pay Range:

$43.80 - $61.34

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

About the Company

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Teaching hospital delivering patient-centered medical care

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) serves as a teaching hospital in Boston affiliated with Harvard Medical School, offering a wide range of medical services across inpatient, emergency, outpatient, and urgent care. Its care model centers on delivering high-quality medical treatment to patients, supported by patient access initiatives like OpenNotes, which lets patients view clinicians’ notes online to improve understanding and engagement in their care. The hospital also supports education and research through its affiliation with Harvard, attracting funding for studies and training programs. BIDMC differentiates itself through its patient-centered approach, active patient engagement tools, and a broad network of urgent care centers and outpatient services that extend access to healthcare. The goal is to provide comprehensive, accessible, evidence-based medical care while advancing medical education and research.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Grant
Total funding: $5.4M
Headquarters: Boston, MA
Founded: 1996

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