Occupational Therapy Assistant COTA
Job Description - Pediatric Occupational Therapist OTR/L and COTA

We are looking for a committed, family-focused, child-centered Occupational Therapist (OTR/L) and/or Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) to conduct treatments in the field of Early Intervention. We provide comprehensive services for infants and toddlers ages 0-3 years in their most natural environment, typically home or daycare. We service families in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys with the bulk of our clientele is in the San Fernando Valley area. We are vendored with the North Los Angeles County Regional Center. You will offer effective, child-centered, and family-focuses services that will facilitate child's developmental growth and empower families. The successful candidate will have a holistic perspective and will be able to readily adapt to fit the client and the home environment. We currently provide both, in-home and virtual services, however, the absolute majority of our referrals (at least 85%) are for in-home services. Oral-Motor/Feeding experience is a big plus and Spanish speaking candidates get priority hiring, as we are in desperate need of Spanish speaking therapists.

Responsibilities

• Effectively address child's aspects of performance to support active engagement in purposeful play
• Select and adapt the appropriate per case occupational therapy treatment model, method and approach to direct the process of interventions
• Apply interventions to maximize safety and performance in activities of daily living (play, functional use of hands, sensory-motor activities, oral-motor/feeding activities)
• Teach children, parents, and caregivers adaptive and purposeful ways of approaching tasks and educate them on how to break down activities into achievable components
• Assess clients using a variety of tools, assess client's home and other environments and advise on alterations consistent with their needs and capabilities (OTR only)
• Recommend adaptive equipment and train in its use
• Guide and educate family members and caregivers
• Observe, note, and report on progress of long and short term treatment goals
• Collect data and document progress
• Be playful, engaging, motivating, and encouraging for the child and supportive, non-judgemental, culturally-sensitive for the family

Skills

• Proven working experience as occupational therapist/occupational therapy assistant, although we welcome new grads as well
• Excellent knowledge of principles and practices of occupational therapy
• Ability to manage clients with different types of personalities, different needs, behavioral and emotional dynamics, different family dynamics
• Current knowledge of treatment practices per discipline and drive to continually learn and grow in the profession
• Professional behavior, strict adherence to company's code of ethics, professional conduct, practice guidelines, as underlined in the employee handbook
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Valid license to practice occupational therapy
• Valid California Driver's License
• We require that all candidates are willing to travel to the Santa Clarita area at least for part of their work hours
• We are primarily interested in hiring full-time specialists, but our part-time minimum weekly requirement is 15 hours scheduled hours per week (this does not include travel time); our minimum full-time requirement is 33+ scheduled hours per week (again, this does not include travel time)
• Fluency in Spanish language is a huge plus, but not a requirement

Job Types

Full-time, Part-time

Base Rate

$35.00 - $45.00 per hour for COTA

In addition to the base rate, we pay for driving time at minimum wage and reimburse for mileage at federal suggested rate and provide partial reimbursement for cell phone use. Depending on the total caseload hours, these additional wages typically average a minimum $3 an hour up to $7.50 an hour additional to the base rate.

Benefits for Full Time Employees

• 401(k)
• Health benefits
• Partial holiday pay

Schedule options/flexibility

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime
• Weekend availability

We do not set your schedule, it is completely up to you when you want to work, as long as you follow our guidelines of 15 minimum client hours weekly, and no more than 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week unless approved for overtime by the administrative team. This job allows for flexibility with scheduling so that you can arrange your work schedule around your life and not the other way around.