Leave Replacement: Occupational Therapist

About the role

The Occupational Therapist will lead the development, implementation, and coordination of the school district's occupational therapy program for students with disabilities or physical/mental impairments.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements and coordinates the school district's occupational therapy program within the school district, including philosophy, vision, procedures and goals.
• Screens, evaluates and monitors students with disabilities or physical mental impairments for the purpose of providing educational programs, therapeutic intervention, and transition and exit planning and enhancing their ability to perform activities of daily living or participate in desired occupations.
• Collaborates with staff to ensure team understanding of student occupational performance strengths and needs, as well as student outcomes.
• Evaluates the student's ability and formulates the student's occupational profile, providing written reports that reflects strengths and barriers to student participation in the educational environment and guides evidence-based intervention.
• Participates in the development of Individualized Education Programs.
• Provides targeted, evidence-based therapeutic intervention to facilitate student participation and occupational performance within the school environment.
• Affirms the need for an occupational therapy evaluation and selects and administers appropriate assessment tools to evaluate the student.
• Documents occupational therapy services, and maintains records in accordance with school district policies, as well as state and federal laws and regulations.

Requirements

• State Certification to practice as evidenced by current state licensure as an Occupational Therapist.
• Initial certification by National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapy.
• Motor Vehicle Operator's License or ability to provide own transportation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in related field.
• Graduation from an accredited program of occupational therapy recognized by NBCOT.

Skills

• Knowledge and use of occupational therapy theories, models of practice, principles, and evidence-based practice to guide intervention decisions.
• Knowledge of human development throughout the life span and integrates with student's unique developmental status.
• Knowledge of the influence of disabilities, socio-cultural and socioeconomic factors on student's ability to participate in occupations.
• Knowledge of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Section 504, and other federal and state laws and regulations regarding education and students and physical therapy practice in schools.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Skill in selecting and providing a wide range of intervention strategies and monitoring their effectiveness.
• Effective computer skills as needed for work.
• Ability to determine the need for an occupational therapy evaluation and to select and administer appropriate assessment tools to evaluate the student.
• Ability to organize and coordinate work.
• Ability to engage in self-evaluation with regard to performance and professional growth.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others contacted in the course of work.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

TBD.

Schedule

TBD.