Occupational Therapist ESC9522
Occupational Therapist ESC9522
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17-01-2025
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Whats in it for you!
- Lucrative pay!
- Long term contract!
- Health/Dental/Vision Insurance available!
- Principal is well respected and liked!
If thats you lets talk!
About Us:
At SchoolHiring (Division of ExpertHiring) we champion potential in students and professionals. You’re not just an employee here; you’re family. We value your role in shaping futures and providing unmatched opportunities to harness your expertise. With each unique school and student we stand united in our mission to make a lasting impact. Dive in be recognized and let’s shape the future of special education together. Join us today.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate regularly with other disciplines and services at departmental and system levels.
- Independently review outcomes and modify intervention programs.
- Utilize clinical reasoning and professional judgment to ensure safety of students and protect the liability of the school system and the therapist.
- Exercise direct supervision over support personnel including occupational therapy assistants and clerical staff.
- Work with other disciplines to ensure team understanding of student occupational performance strengths and needs through evaluation educational program planning and service delivery.
- Evaluate the student’s ability and formulate the student’s occupational profile through various assessments skilled observation checklists histories and interviews.
- Synthesize evaluation results into a comprehensive written report that reflects strengths and barriers to student participation in the educational environment directs program development and guides evidencebased intervention.
- Develop occupationally based intervention plans based on student needs and evaluation results.
- Participate in multidisciplinary meetings to review evaluation results integrate findings with other disciplines offer recommendations and develop individual education plans and intervention plans to achieve IEP goals.
- Provide targeted evidencebased therapeutic intervention to facilitate student participation and occupational performance within the school environment.
Qualifications:
- Consult with the schoolbased team to achieve student outcomes.
- Adapt and modify the environment including assistive technology and training instructional staff to meet individual needs and to help students function as independently as possible.
- Educate students educational personnel and families to facilitate skills in areas of occupation as well as health maintenance and safety.
- Monitor and reassess the effects of occupational therapy intervention and determine the need to continue modify or discontinue intervention.
- Document occupational therapy services to ensure accountability of service provision and to meet standards for reimbursement of services as appropriate.
- Manage inventory of therapeutic equipment and assessments and project needs for budget planning.
- Supervise nonoccupational therapy support personnel.
- Knowledge of human development throughout the lifespan and integrate with the student’s unique developmental status.
- Appreciate the influence of disabilities sociocultural and socioeconomic factors on students’ ability to participate in occupations.
- Utilize knowledge and use of occupational therapy theories models of practice principles and evidencebased practice to guide intervention decisions.
- Gather and assess outcomes program evaluation data and use it to modify services at the programmatic level.
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