COTA - Therapy Asst

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Work type: Full-Time (Salaried)
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Categories: Health and Human Services

Title: COTA - Therapy Asst

State Role Title: Therapy Assistant/Therapist I

Hiring Range: Salary up to $82,218

Pay Band: 3

Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop

Location: Western State Hospital

Agency Website: https://dbhds.virginia.gov/facilities/wsh/

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Location: Western State Hospital
103 Valley Center Drive, Staunton, VA 24401.

Position Overview:
Western State Hospital is seeking a COTA Therapy Assistant to implement psychosocial programs designed to promote and maintain health, reinforce, restore and enhance task performance.

Key Responsibilities:
- Conducts and co-facilitates up to 4 hours of psychosocial rehabilitation interventions per day across various learning centers and assigned PCU per COVID-19 protocols
- Ensures that interventions are appropriate to individual client's ages, interests, and abilities as reflected by assessment data
- Completes assigned documentation according to facility and departmental guidelines
- Attends a minimum of 6 PSR staff development sessions per year
- Conducts at least one satisfaction survey of consumers served in group per quarter
- Supervises and/or co-supervises level 1 and level 2 OTA and OT students

Benefits Include:
- health, vision, and dental insurance
- life insurance
- paid time off
- sick time
- family/personal time
- retirement with cash match

Minimum Qualifications

- Graduation from an accredited occupational therapy assistant program
- Experience in patient care
- Licensed by the Virginia Board

Additional Considerations

- Bilingual
- Veteran or veteran spouse

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to "Your Application" in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

Application Requirements: Applications and résumés for this position are accepted electronically through the Commonwealth of Virginia's Electronic Recruitment System only. Interview decisions will be based solely on the information provided in your electronic application and/or résumé. Please ensure you clearly and specifically detail all relevant work experience; we will not make assumptions about your qualifications.

Contact Information

Name: Samantha Leep

Phone: 540-332-8306

Email: [email protected]

In support of the Commonwealth's commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.

Advertised: 30 Jul 2026 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close:

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