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Lead Occupational Therapist

HCA Healthcare

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Location
Multiple U.S. locations
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

BLS Certification

Job overview

The Lead Occupational Therapist evaluates and cares for patient populations, working with patients to restore, maintain, and promote fitness and health. The role includes assessing patients, serving as a clinical resource for staff, supporting positive customer service and patient experiences, and demonstrating proficiency in occupational therapy modalities. The posting seeks a degree in occupational therapy, current Tennessee licensure, BLS certification, and at least two years of clinical experience; prior leadership experience is preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Patient AssessmentOccupational Therapy ModalitiesInterpersonal Skills

Qualifications

BS, MS, or OTD in Occupational TherapyTennessee Occupational Therapy LicensureBLS CertificationPrior Leadership Experience2+ Years Clinical Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Lead Occupational Therapist

Job Summary and Qualifications

As the Lead Occupational Therapist, you will demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide appropriate evaluation and care for patient populations served in his/her department. Therapist works closely with patients to restore, maintain, and promote their overall fitness and health.

What you will do in this role:

  • You will perform appropriate assessment on each patient, as related to the therapy requested and provides reassessment per policy

  • You will serve as a clinical resource for staff

  • You will Holds staff accountable for positive customer service behaviors. Collaborates with staff, physicians, patients, and families to promote a positive patient experience

  • You will demonstrate knowledge and proficiency of occupational therapy modalities (certified to perform modalities)

What qualifications you will need:

  • Demonstrated experience with each of the required areas of expertise in section I

  • BS, MS or OTD in Occupational Therapy and current Tennessee licensure

  • Interpersonal skills to successfully interact with: Patients, staff, physicians and Third Party Payers

  • BLS certification required

  • Prior leadership experience preferred Minimum of two years of clinical experience

Benefits

TriStar Centennial Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

  • Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

  • Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

  • Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

  • Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

  • Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

  • Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 740+ bed comprehensive facility. We offer medical and surgical programs. These include behavioral health and 24-hour emergency. These also include heart and vascular and imaging. These also include neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder, and women's services. We are an affiliate of TriStar Health. TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 43-acre campus. We are home to TriStar Centennial Heart & Vascular Center. We are home to TriStar Centennial Women's Hospital. Our campus includes The Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial, Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial Medical Center, TriStar Centennial Advanced Joint Replacement Institute and TriStar Centennial Parthenon Pavilion.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Lead Occupational Therapist opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

How this job compares

Set against the 5,047 open Occupational Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$85–118K/yr1,008 salary ranges
  • US median$46–58/hr1,898 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 67 open Occupational Therapist jobs in Tennessee and 5,047 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Tennessee
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Occupational Therapist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (1,379 postings).
Education
1,935 of the 5,047 open Occupational Therapist jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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