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Job Description

Job Description

Salary : Per Unit - Based on Experience

Occupational Therapist

Performs professional Occupational Therapy activities consisting of planning, evaluating, establishing and implementing individual and group treatment activities in a collaborative child- and family-centered service delivery model.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.

• Interpret a physicians referral and select appropriate standardized evaluation procedures.
• Evaluate patients in the relevant occupational therapy domains, including component skills that may be restricting independence and / or participation.
• Interpret child and family concerns as well as data collected through standardized assessment and skilled observation, and develop a treatment plan involving short and long term goals, frequency and duration of treatment.
• Inform patient and family goals and progress.
• Maintain a full-time caseload that may include children and families receiving services through insurance, school-based services, consultation, or private pay models of service delivery.
• May supervise Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant(s).
• May supervise students.

Skills, Qualifications, and Certifications / Licensure Requirements