Occupational Therapist

Occupational Therapist

Assess, plan, and organize rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays. Specifically for Special Education Programs run by Applied ABC & Birch Academy.  You will use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

• Complete and maintain necessary records.
• Evaluate students' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
• Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for students.
• Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.
• Recommend changes in students' educational or social environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
• Help students improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.
• Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.
• Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or (R)BTs and other Special Education staff.
• Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
• Plan and implement programs and social activities to help students learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
• Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
• Conduct research in occupational therapy.
• Train caregivers in providing for the needs of a student during and after therapy.

Bachelor's Degree; Master's Degree

Current OT Licensure / Certification required

Part time; Hours will be between 8 : 00 - 2 : 00; discussed with Management after hire

School-Based & Center-Based Services : Multiple locations available, candidates do not need to sign on for all cases, but it is preferred; discussion about caseload can be had post-interview / selection. Primary service locations will be :