This Position is "Open Until Filled"

Start: 2022-23 School Year

Title:                                    Occupational Therapist

Department:                      Early Intervention/Early Childhood Education

Classification:                   Licensed

Supervised by:                  Superintendent or Designee

Work Year:                         191 Days or as assigned by Superintendent

Job Purpose Statement:

The Occupational Therapist provides occupational therapy diagnostic/prescriptive expertise for children ages birth to 5 years old who have identified fine motor, adaptive and sensory processing delays.

Job Qualifications, Licensure, Certification:        

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree/Ed.S or higher degree (required)
• Oregon – Occupational Therapist License
• Accreditation - Council for Occupational Therapy Education
• OT Board Certified
• Criminal Justice Fingerprint Clearance
• Valid Driver’s License and evidence of insurability
• Successfully pass district background screening

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

1. Knowledge across developmental domains of typical child development, the characteristics of delayed development, and the patterns of atypical development associated with disabilities.
2. Select, administer, and interpret information using appropriate instruments for screening, eligibility, program planning, child progress, and program evaluation.
3. Recognize the family as the major long-term influence in a child’s life and will support families, in all their diversity, in their hopes and plans for their child.
4. Design, implement, and evaluate appropriate services for EI/ECSE children with their families in their local communities.
5. Apply federal and state legislative regulations, policies, procedures, and ethics affecting EI/ECSE programs and work together to establish program guidelines which best utilize people, materials, time and dollars.
6. Provide coordinated services in a manner that ensures that efforts of the family, the EI, ECE, ECSE programs and community services are complementary and un-duplicated and that they are in concert with identified needs and family preferences.
7. Demonstrate knowledge of research in relevant fields and application to intervention practices.
8. Knowledge of occupational therapy theories, models of practice, principles, and evidence based practice
9. Preferred knowledge in Sensory Integration Theory and Practices
10. Ability to articulate the role of the occupational therapy in the evaluation, intervention planning, and intervention process
11. Ability to analyze tasks relative to areas of occupation, performance skills, activity demands, contexts, and student factors to implement the intervention plan
12. Ability to recognize occupational performance deficits in the areas of personal care, student role/interactive skills, processing skills, play, community integration, and written communication
13. Skill in gathering screening and evaluation data, completing checklists, histories, and interviews
14. Ability to select, adapt, and sequence relevant occupations and purposeful activities that support intervention goals
15. Ability to maintain safe environments, equipment, and materials
16. Ability to prepare and maintain accurate records and progress notesWillingness to be educated and trained for specific program implementation
17. Initiative, strong work ethic, and the ability to positively interact and collaborate in a team environment
18. Complete thorough evaluation, including muscle tone, range of motion/mobility, orthopedic needs, movement analysis, perceptive/fine motor skills, sensory motor processing and functional activities of daily living.
19. Educate and demonstrate (verbally or written) therapy techniques to parents that can be incorporated into the home
20. Develop and implement IEPs to meet the individual needs of the child.
21. Attend staff meetings, in-service training, and continuing education courses as appropriate or required.
22. Assess and make recommendations regarding the use of adaptive equipment as needed and provide written justification.
23. Responsible for timely documentation of evaluation results, progress reports, discharge reports, daily notes, service tracker notes.

 Essential Job Functions:

1. Provides evaluation and intervention with identified children with disabilities.
2. Determines level of service based upon current assessment(s), providing direct (individual or group) treatments or consultation.
3. Participates in the preparation of, and conferencing about, the Individual Education Plan or Individual Family Service Plan (IEP/IFSP).
4. Evaluates effectiveness of occupational therapy intervention procedures; documents, monitor and reports student progress. Maintains case notes and other documentation as required for Medicaid billing.
5. Develops and maintains a positive working relationship with parents, ESD staff, school, agency, and medical personnel.
6. Provides sufficient supervision, training, and assistance to all supportive personnel so they will be able to implement those portions of treatment plan assigned to them.
7. Assesses adaptive equipment needs, assists in the provision of appropriate equipment, and monitors its effectiveness.
8. Assists with and/or initiates dissemination of information concerning occupational therapy services in the community, individuals, and agency.
9. Promotes and participates in the ongoing improvement of the occupational therapy program through development and implementation and new methods of evaluation and treatment, record keeping, and case coordination.
10. Develops, in cooperation with program administrator, personal annual goals and objectives, and assumes responsibility for seeing these goals are accomplished.