Job Openings

Blind and Vision Rehabilitation Services

08/19/2024

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate client's current function and determine their needs and desired outcomes.
• Completes standardized assessments during evaluation process.
• Evaluate patients' needs in the home, community, and workplace to identify potential improvements.
• Instruct clients on increasing independence with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) using blindness and low vision techniques.
• Ability to commute to client’s homes/community in their own vehicle.
• Educate patients' families and employers about necessary accommodation and care.
• Recommend and refer patients to additional services such as Low Vision clinic, orientation and mobility training, and access technology.
• Assess and record patients' activities and progress for evaluations, treatment, discharge, billing, and communication with physicians/healthcare providers in current agency software.
• Introduce and train clients on adaptive equipment, compensatory strategies and environmental modifications to enhance independence in daily tasks.
• Role-play scenarios to identify patients' abilities and limitations, discuss outcomes and initiate a plan of care.
• Prepare written correspondence documenting the progression and final skill levels of patients.
• Participate in meetings with patients, family members, and other support staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

 Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• Current PA Occupational Therapy (OT) license required.
• Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (CVRT) or Certified Low Vision Therapist (CLVT) preferred.
• Valid driver license
• Experience working with individuals who have vision loss preferred.

 Decision-Making Authority/Supervisory Responsibility:

• Primary responsibility for decision-making regarding clients’ training programs.
• Supervises Occupational Therapy students when applicable.

 Working Environment/Physical Demands: 

 Working Environment: 

•  General office environment: air-conditioned office, with moderate noise levels.   

Physical Demands: 

• Capability to lift and carry equipment and materials up to 25 Pounds without assistance
• Ability to travel to different locations as required for client training sessions.
• Ability to anticipate and mitigate hazards to ensure client safety.
• Ability to speak professionally on the phone with various stakeholders 
• Ability to utilize a visually based database

Reasoning Abilities & Language Skills:

• Ability to evaluate information and the implications of a course of action or solution
• Ability to interpret and apply common sense understanding to carry out a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
• Ability to follow and execute directives from leadership
• Ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Evaluate trends in data or information.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret both internal and external documents

E_mail: dpetrosyan@pghvis.org

Phone: 412-368-4400 ext 2248

Cert: CLVT