Position at SESI Schools Now Hiring for the 2024-2025 School Year Why Join Us. Are you looking for a new opportunity to make an impact in the lives of students? Join us at SESI Schools, where we are proving what is possible for students with unique needs. We offer. Competitive salary range of $75,000-95,000 Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401 K matching. Tuition reimbursement of up to $2,625 Continued training, mentorship, and opportunities for growth. The O... more details
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Position at SESI Schools
Now Hiring for the 2024-2025 School Year
Why Join Us
Are you looking for a new opportunity to make an impact in the lives of students? Join us at SESI Schools, where we are proving what is possible for students with unique needs. We offer
- Competitive salary range of $75,000-95,000
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K matching
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $2,625
- Continued training, mentorship, and opportunities for growth
The Opportunity
The Occupational Therapist will be responsible for providing social-emotional services for students who require additional support to thrive in school. They will deliver high-quality services as provided by SESI, and collaborate with both school personnel and families to provide services to students. Every child deserves to reach their full potential and we’re looking to hire an exceptional Therapist who will play an essential role in fueling student success.
Essential Functions
- Develops, implements and coordinates the school district's occupational therapy program within the school district, including philosophy, vision, procedures and goals.
- Screens, evaluates and monitors students with disabilities or physical mental impairments for the purpose of providing educational programs, therapeutic intervention, and transition and exit planning and enhancing their ability to perform activities of daily living or participate in desired occupations.
- Collaborates with staff to ensure team understanding of student occupational performance strengths and needs, as well as student outcomes.
- Evaluates the student's ability and formulates the student's occupational profile, providing written reports that reflects strengths and barriers to student participation in the educational environment and guides evidence-based intervention.
- Participates in the development of Individualized Education Programs.
- Provides targeted, evidence-based therapeutic intervention to facilitate student participation and occupational performance within the school environment.
- Assesses the need for assistive technology and equipment and makes recommendations for its use at school to help students function as independently as possible.
- Documents occupational therapy services, and maintains records in accordance with school district policies, as well as state and federal laws and regulations.
- Supervises Occupational Therapy Assistants as needed.
- Plans, coordinates, and conducts continuing education for school staff, parents, and students.
- Continues to acquire professional knowledge and learn of current developments in the educational field by attending seminars, workshops or professional meetings, or by conducting research, and by maintaining professional relationships.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge and use of occupational therapy theories, models of practice, principles, and evidence-based practice to guide intervention decisions.
- Knowledge of human development throughout the life span and integrates with student's unique developmental status.
- Knowledge of the influence of disabilities, socio-cultural and socioeconomic factors on student's ability to participate in occupations.
- Knowledge of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Section 504, and other federal and state laws and regulations regarding education and students and physical therapy practice in schools.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Skill in selecting and providing a wide range of intervention strategies and monitoring their effectiveness.
- Effective computer skills as needed for work (e.g., ability to effective use Microsoft Office suite).
- Ability to determine the need for an occupational therapy evaluation and to select and administer appropriate assessment tools to evaluate the student.
- Ability to organize and coordinate work.
- Ability to engage in self-evaluation with regard to performance and professional growth.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others contacted in the course of work.
Qualifications:
Certification/License:
- State Certification to practice as evidenced by current state licensure as an Occupational Therapist.
- Initial certification by National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapy.
Education:
- Bachelors from an accredited college or university in related field.
- Graduation from an accredited program of occupational therapy recognized by NBCOT.
About SESI
The B.E.S.T. Academy is operated by Specialized Education Services, Inc. (SESI), a division of FullBloom. SESI is a premier provider of education services for K-12 students who require additional educational and behavioral supports to overcome challenges that impede success in a traditional school setting. SESI partners with school districts to run classrooms, on-site, within district boundaries and standalone schools that meet the academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs of special and alternative education students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Emotional Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, and other challenges. Partnering with over 600 school districts nationwide, SESI serves more than 7,000 students in day schools and in-district classrooms. SESI is accredited by Cognia.
FullBloom is an equal opportunity employer.
Equal Employment Opportunity has been and will continue to be a fundamental principle at FullBloom, where employment is based on personal capabilities and qualifications. The company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on any legally recognized basis, including, but not limited to age (40 and over); color; gender, physical or mental disability; mental status; civil union/domestic partnership; national origin; ancestry; citizenship status; race; religion; creed; sex; pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions; gender identity and gender expression; political affiliation; veteran status and uniformed servicemember status; genetic information (including testing and characteristics); or any other consideration protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.