• Occupational Therapist

Occupational Therapist

  • Anywhere

California Psychiatric Transitions is a 98 bed Mental Health Rehabilitation Facility located in Delhi, CA. We serve adults with severe and persistent mental illness as well as the forensic population. We are a recovery-oriented program and our primary focus it is to help our clients successfully transition back into society.

We are currently looking for a full time Occupational Therapist to join our Activities Department. Therapists will work with the Activity Department to provide group and individual sessions, assist with program development and community integration outings, and plan and implement activities for facility-wide events.

Qualifications

A bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy and a state license is required to be considered as a candidate. To be a successful hire, you will need to have up-to-date knowledge of treatment practices. Experience in the mental health field is preferred.

Job Duties

  • Facilitate creative, educational, psychosocial, vocational, and activity-based groups that will effectively engage residents and support their treatment plans, as needed.
  • Participate in community integration outings, as well as monitor residents to support successful integration and involvement with the community; drive company vehicles if qualified to do so.
  • Meet with residents individually on an as-needed basis to rehabilitate residents to regain lost skills.
  • Participate in theme day and holiday events, and work with team members to collaborate and assist in development of the department.
  • Effectively manage groups and provide verbal de-escalation when needed.
  • Provide therapeutic counseling support in all aspects of position.
  • Provide required documentation related to conducting individual sessions, activities assessments, monthly, and quarterly reports.
  • Participate in required in-service training and staff development as needed.
  • Due to the unpredictable nature of the psychiatric profession, employees are to engage in crisis prevention procedures for the safety, health, and welfare of the residents and staff.


    • In addition to specific job duties, at times, you will be expected to stand for periods of time, bend, kneel, lift, carry and walk swiftly or run.

Personal Information

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Application Waiver

Application Waiver
This Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. We adhere to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age or disability. We assure you that your opportunity for employment with CPT depends solely on your qualifications.
In exchange for the consideration of my job application by California Psychiatric Transitions, (hereinafter called “CPT”), I agree that: Neither the acceptance of this application nor the subsequent entry into any type of employment relationship, either in the position applied for or any other position, and regardless of the contents of employee handbooks, personnel manuals, benefit plans, policy statements, and the like as they may exist from time to time, or other Company practices, shall serve to create an actual or implied contract of employment, or to confer any right to remain an employee of CPT, or otherwise to change in any respect the employment-at-will relationship between it and the undersigned, and that relationship cannot be altered except by a written instrument signed by the Facility Director. Both the undersigned and CPT may end the employment relationship at any time, without specified notice or reason. If employed, I understand that CPT may unilaterally change or revise their benefits, policies and procedures and such changes may include reduction in benefits.
I authorize investigation of all statements contained in this application. I understand that the misrepresentation or omission of facts called for is cause for dismissal at any time without any previous notice. I hereby give CPT permission to contact schools, previous employers (unless otherwise indicated), references, and others, and hereby release CPT from any liability as a result of such contract. I understand that, in connection with the routine processing of your employment application, CPT may request from a consumer reporting agency an investigative consumer report including information as to my credit records, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, and mode of living. Upon written request from me, CPT, will provide me with additional information concerning the nature and scope of any such report requested by it, as by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.