Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy ⟩

About the role

The Mrs. T.H. Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Southern California invites applications for a full-time 12-month clinical faculty position. The successful candidate will work with the Division's current faculty members to create and teach course work in the entry-level occupational therapy doctorate (OTD) program focused on mental health practice, with particular attention to critical approaches and linkages to sanism and Mad Studies.

Responsibilities

• Teach and mentor graduate students
• Collaborate on curriculum development to strengthen mental health, mad studies and anti-ableism/sanism content throughout the e-OTD curriculum
• Engage in scholarship related to work in the Division and in the profession
• Serve on committees as assigned or requested

Requirements

• Earned terminal degree (O.T.D., or Ph.D. in occupational science preferred)
• Experience teaching graduate course work in occupational therapy
• Lived experience of mental illness or identification with Mad communities
• Current OT license and eligibility to practice occupational therapy in California
• Additional certifications may include peer provider or psychiatric rehabilitation
• Experience in course and/or curriculum development and interests in mad studies, critical psychiatry preferred
• Doctoral work completed within the mental health practice space

Qualifications

• An earned terminal degree (O.T.D., or Ph.D. in occupational science preferred)
• Experience teaching graduate course work in occupational therapy
• Lived experience of mental illness or identification with Mad communities
• A current OT license and eligibility to practice occupational therapy in California
• Additional certifications may include peer provider or psychiatric rehabilitation
• Experience in course and/or curriculum development and interests in mad studies, critical psychiatry preferred
• Doctoral work completed within the mental health practice space

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $85,000 - $95,000.

Schedule

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