Pediatric Occupational Therapist

Root Pediatrics is hiring a pediatric occupational therapist in Bozeman, Montana — part-time or full-time, your call. You’d work with children and families on sensory processing, fine motor skills, daily living, and play — evaluating, planning, and treating one-on‑one in a purpose-built pediatric space.

Pediatrics here bends to the child, not the other way around. You adjust session length to what a kid actually needs that day. You choose the location of service around the child too — the clinic’s peds gym, or home‑based early‑intervention visits when that’s what serves the family. And you’re never doing it alone: pediatric PTs, a speech‑language pathologist, and fellow OTs are down the hall, so multidisciplinary problem‑solving is a conversation, not a referral form.

New grads are welcome. What matters most to us is pediatric experience — fieldwork and clinical rotations with kids count for more than years in practice somewhere else. If you light up working with children and families, we want to talk to you.

You are the expert here, and the advocate for your patient’s care. That isn’t a slogan — it’s the operating model. You decide what’s best for the people you treat, every session is one‑on‑one, and nobody is ever double‑booked. Your clinical judgment is why we’d hire you, so we don’t override it with a schedule.

A few practical things we’ve built because they matter to real life:

• Paid documentation time
  , included as needed depending on your schedule load — charting isn’t homework you do for free.
• Real schedule flexibility. Life has family demands, trips worth taking, and days that need to bend. We adjust schedules to make time off actually work — that goes for part‑time and full‑time alike.
• The same benefits at part‑time as full‑time — and health insurance is fully paid once you’re over 25 hours a week. The full list is on our careers page.

It starts with a phone call — no committee, no personality quiz. If we both like what we hear, you’ll come in and interview in person with someone you’d actually be working beside, see the space, and get honest answers about the caseload. We’ll respond to your application within the week.

Local candidates, this is your hometown advantage — we’d love to hear from you. If you’d be relocating:
Bozeman is a genuinely wonderful place to live and work, and it is genuinely expensive. We can’t offer relocation assistance, so please come with clear eyes about the cost of living. Plenty of people make it work and love it here; we just won’t pretend the math is easy.

• Comprehensive evaluations — Assess each child's physical, cognitive, and sensory abilities, alongside their developmental history and what the family is actually worried about.
• Develop tailored treatment plans — Design developmentally appropriate plans targeting activities of daily living, motor skills, sensory processing, and play.
• Administer therapeutic interventions — Deliver hands‑on intervention supporting fine motor skills, self‑care, sensory integration, and social‑emotional development.
• Collaborative care — Work closely with parents, caregivers, and other providers on a child‑centered plan that builds independence and confidence.
• Monitor and adapt treatment — Track each child's progress and adjust the plan as they grow and change.
• Family education and support — Coach parents and caregivers so the strategies carry over at home, where most of a child's hours actually happen.
• Contribute to how we practice — Share feedback with the team on our therapy practices, processes, and facilities.

• Education — Master's or doctoral degree in occupational therapy from an accredited…