Job Title: School Occupational Therapist
Start Date: 2024 - 2025
Work Hours: up to 37.5 hours per week; Guaranteed Hours
Caseload: TBD; K-12th Grade
Job Details:
Clarifi Staffing Solutions is seeking a highly qualified, collaborative, candidate to join our partnership with an esteemed Georgia State School district and deliver specialized occupational therapy services to our students.
Candidates must be willing to support a friendly, positive, and professional environment and work in a fast-paced setting. The client is seeking a candidate available for full time hours. They would prefer someone with previous School, Early Childhood, or Pediatric Experience. The schedule will provide guaranteed hours. This is a need for next school year, and the client is actively interviewing.
Responsibilities include:
• Assist in the identification of students in need of physical therapy through screening and evaluations.
• Evaluate and treat individual children to develop actions in performance skills. The occupational therapist deals with both physical and social development and is concerned with children's ability to accomplish tasks related to their developmental progress.
• Participate as a member of a multidisciplinary team in designing and implementing effective treatment programs as determined by the student's individual educational plan.
• Relate the educational significance of occupational therapy treatments toward assisting in the student's fullest potential and educational growth.
• Plan and implement an occupational therapy program for identified children to achieve necessary goals within the educational setting.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate IEPs that focus on assessment data and evaluated student progress using a data-based decision-making model.
• Provide consultation and advisory services to the child's family, health care agencies, and community organizations as needed.
• Consult with the student's physician concerning the student's occupational therapy program.
• Consult, instruct, and monitor the student, family, and other educational staff in occupational therapy procedures as needed.
• Maintain appropriate written records and reports for each child served and/or assessed.