Occupational Therapy Graduate Faculty

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create and deliver learning experiences consistent with the program’s mission and curricular guiding principles.
• Facilitate and maintain quality educational experiences for students, ensuring compliance with the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE).
• Provide honest and meaningful assessment of student learning, competence, and behaviors that cultivate reflective and adaptive learning.
• Assess student progress toward entrustment of professional occupational therapy activities throughout educational experiences.
• Participate in assessing students’ professionalism, competence, safety, and readiness for fieldwork education in cooperation with other faculty.
• Create a professional development plan that aligns with the department strategic plan that includes goals related to: Demonstrate teaching effectiveness and appropriate use of educational technology, Scholarship, Promote and engage in a culture of evidence-based practice, Service.

University and Unit Expectations

• Knowledge of and a commitment to the mission of Marian University.
• Initiate, adapt, evaluate, and uphold program and University policies, procedures, and practices.
• Foster a culture that promotes dignity, justice, and unity in occupational therapy education.
• Show courtesy and respect in interactions with fellow employees, students, subordinates, and supervisors.
• Communicate regularly with supervisor about Program/Department issues.
• Maintain department productivity standards.
• Contribute to the development and assessment of department goals, objectives, and strategic plan.
• Absorb department measurements that align and support the accomplishment of the University’s strategic goals.
• Adhere to the department budget.
• Show strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.
• Participate in recruitment and retention activities for students.
• Regularly participate in academic unit meetings.
• Support the accomplishment of the University's strategic goals.
• Participate in annual faculty evaluation consistent with university practices.

Required Qualifications

• An occupational therapist (OT).
• A minimum of a doctoral degree awarded by an institution accredited by a USDE-recognized institutional accrediting agency.
• A current, unencumbered Indiana occupational therapy license or eligibility for licensure in Indiana.
• A current certification through the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT®) as an Occupational Therapist Registered (OTR®).
• Documented experience in the field of occupational therapy, including clinical practice experience as an occupational therapy practitioner with expertise in an area(s) of practice.
• Interprofessional engagement and collaboration across multiple disciplines.
• Administrative experience in program planning and implementation, personnel management, and evaluation.
• Experience in scholarship (e.g., scholarship of application, scholarship of teaching and learning).
• Understanding of and experience engaging in the relationship between occupational therapist and occupational therapy assistant.