Temporary Occupational Therapist

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 blindness or low vision and multiple disabilities.

Essential Functions:

1. Conducts occupational therapy assessments including evaluations of activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Designs, fabricates, labels, disseminates, repairs, and inventories adaptive equipment, assistive devices, and splints.

5. 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 : 35 hours per week with one daily-unpaid 30 minutes for lunch. Flextime scheduling with one evening in the residential cottages.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. 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.

2. Comprehensive knowledge to teach activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living to staff, students, and families.

3. General knowledge of implementing adaptive/assistive devices and techniques in classroom and residential environments; may involve static and dynamic pediatric splinting options.

4. General knowledge of blindness or low vision and the impact on development and activities of daily living skills.

5. 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.

6. Experience in a school or pediatric setting and general knowledge of the Maryland Online IEP process preferred.

7. Current licensure by the Maryland State Board of Occupational Therapy Practice.

8. Ability to lift up to 35 lbs.

9. MSB requires its employees to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus by the date or hire, with exceptions for approved medical or religious accommodations, in order to safeguard the health of our students, employees and their families from COVID-19 to the greatest extent possible.