Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant (Ft. Worth Area)

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Part Time Professional Arlington, TX, US

8 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $35.00 To $45.00 Annually

School-based occupational therapy practitioners support academic achievement and social participation by promoting occupation within all school routines, including recess, classroom, and cafeteria time for students with motor and/or cognitive deficits. Occupational Therapists help children fulfill their role as students and prepare them for college, career, and community integration by assessing students and providing therapeutic intervention utilizing prevention, promotion, and intervention strategies to eliminate or reduce impairments that interfere with students’ ability to derive full benefit from the educational program.

• Associate’s degree in Occupational Therapy Assistant from an accredited college or university
• Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant license in good standing by Texas State Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners

• Ability to instruct and manage student behavior
• Excellent organization, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of evaluation, habilitation, and rehabilitation of motor disorder and conditions for school pediatric population
• Consult and collaborate with professionals, parents, students
• Provide direct/indirect treatment for IEP
• Interact constructively in a varieties of cultures, families, socio-economic groups
• Ability to treat student in care and evaluate their specific needs to provide an action plan with personal goals or objectives
• Carefully transcribing all services provided
• Strive for professional development and timely completion of duties
• Provide training for the use of equipment
• Knowledge of computer systems and software applications
• Organizational, analytical and communication
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines, maintain accurate and audible records.

• One-year experience as an Occupational Therapist Assistant
• One year in a school setting/pediatric preferred
• Current Valid driver’s license
• Current valid insurance

• Plan and provide appropriate interventions in collaboration with Occupational Therapist, student, family, and school staff
• Plan and provide appropriate individual and group therapy to students consistent with therapy goals contained in Individual Education Plans (IEP)
• Evaluate student progress and determine readiness for termination of therapy services by completing progress reports and collaborating with Occupational Therapist

• Collaborate with Occupational Therapist to participate in Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) Committee to assist in interpretation of assessment, data, appropriate placement, and goal setting for students eligible for Occupational Therapy services according to DAS procedures.

• Counsel and involve parents in remedial process
• Collaborate with classroom teachers and school staff to plan and implement remedial process for improvement of students’ skills
• Provide professional development in assigned schools to help school personnel identify and understand student deficits
• Communicate effectively with colleagues, students, and parents regarding needs of the student, student progress or mastery of therapy goals

• Create an environment conducive to learning and appropriate for the maturity level and interests of students
• Seek assistance form school personnel to establish and administer discipline according to the school Student Code of Conduct

• Collaborate with…