Occupational Therapist

Occupational Therapist

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Summary: With supervision, provides occupational therapy assessment, treatment, and consultative services as a member of the multidisciplinary team at a residential school for students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities.

Essential Functions:

• Conducts occupational therapy assessments including evaluations of activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living.
• Manages a student caseload, using an integrated therapy model. Collaborates with other team members; participates in the IEP process and documentation; maintains records and accurately documents all service provision.
• Provides consultation, training, instruction and support to instructional and residential staff, parents, families, and community-based professionals. This will involve extensive time in the student residences and may include home visits.
• Designs, fabricates, labels, disseminates, repairs, and inventories adaptive equipment, assistive devices, and splints.
• Continues professional development and education.

Conditions:

• Equipment Used: Telephone, copier, computer, fax machine, multimedia devices, hand & simple power tools, adaptive feeding equipment, assistive devices, goniometer, augmentative communication systems, and car.
• Performance Standard: Must consistently demonstrate clinical competence in all areas of performance consistent with recognized standards of the occupational therapy profession.
• Work Environment: Multiple indoor and outdoor environments, on and off campus, with a variety of sound, lighting, and temperature conditions.
• Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday with one daily-unpaid 30 minutes for lunch. This position will follow an 11-month annual schedule.

Requirements:

• Comprehensive knowledge of normal/abnormal pediatric sensory motor development, sensory integrative function, visual perceptual motor development, and pediatric assessment and treatment techniques, which meet professional standards and practices.
• Comprehensive knowledge to teach activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living to staff, students, and families.
• General knowledge of implementing adaptive/assistive devices and techniques in classroom and residential environments; may involve static and dynamic pediatric splinting options.
• General knowledge of visual impairments and the impact on development and activities of daily living skills.
• General knowledge of disabling childhood conditions such as neuromuscular diseases, intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, and learning disabilities and their impact on function.
• Experience in a school or pediatric setting and general knowledge of the Maryland Online IEP process preferred.
• Current licensure by the Maryland State Board of Occupational Therapy Practice.
• Ability to lift up to 35 lbs.

The Maryland School for the Blind