Overview
JOIN OUR THERAPY TEAM AT HARMONY PEDIATRIC THERAPY!
We are looking for an amazing occupational therapist
(Part-time)
2 Locations: Basking Ridge and Chatham, NJ
Flexible start date and scheduling
Pay range: $38-$48 hourly depending on years of experience
Key Responsibilities:
- Daily treatment sessions targeting all goal areas
- Develop and implement individualized treatment plans to address specific needs, considering age, developmental stage and health conditions
- Utilize evidence-based therapeutic techniques
- Complete all necessary evaluations
- Regularly assess progress, monitor treatment outcomes and modify treatment plans as needed
- Create and monitor home programming
- Incorporate play-based approaches to engage and teach children
- Completion of daily documentation
- Provide expert education and coaching to parents and caregivers
- Conduct clinical collaborations
- Commit to ongoing learning and professional development in the field of occupational therapy
- Complete all documentation daily
- Implement novel programming with therapeutic team
- Provide coverage sessions
Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Current and valid NJ state licensure or pending state licensure as an Occupational Therapist required
- Prior Pediatric OT experience preferred
- Proficiency in administering standardized assessments
- Experience with various pediatric conditions
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule including afternoon and evening availability
- Paid sick time
- Professional education reimbursement
- Mentorship opportunities
Responsibilities
- Daily treatment sessions targeting all goal areas
- Completion of daily notes within 24 hours
- Replying to emails within 24 hours of receipt
- Establishing organization system to track and conduct quarterly consultations with support from co-treating therapist or mentor
- Conducting quarterly consults
- Establishing organization system to track and conduct reassessments
- Proficiency in administration of standardized assessments (PDMS, WOLD, Beery, PRN, QNST, BOT, TVPS, BRIEF, SP, Clinical Observations, HELP), interpretation of scores, and subsequent summary report
- clinician’s responsibility to seek out learning opportunities for all administration/interpretation of said assessments
- Conducting clinical collaborations as clinically necessary
- 1-2 annual projects for the site; examples: lead role in summer programming; run social media account, learn novel assessment and present to staff including administration, interpretation, write up for IE/RA. To be determined by clinic manager based on site need
- Establish and maintain communication system with co-treating therapist regarding pertinent/relevant case details; including, but not limited to: clinical feedback from session, parent feedback, upcoming transitions/life events, etc.
- Participation in family meetings, with shared presentation (to be determined and agreed upon with co-treating therapist)
- Offer any available session times (e.g. session times that were canceled) within typical treating window to colleagues/other clients from waitlist
- While building to a full-time caseload, will provide coverage for any therapist’s scheduled PTO (given 2-week or more notice)
- Present any novel clinical information/strategies/theories learned in CEU courses
- Monthly clinical support for forward thinking/progression of cases to next level
- Implement up to 3 annual programs and/or groups: novel, past or on-going (e.g. social skills, handwriting, summer program)
- “Secondary” role in evaluations, family meetings, report generation
Qualifications
Additional Data
Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
