Interim Physical Therapist

Collierville Schools; Collierville (TN); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Collierville Schools seeks an Occupational Therapist to provide educational OT services within the school community. The role requires evaluating students, updating IEPs, and planning therapy programs in collaboration with teachers and staff.

The incumbent will maintain records, participate in conferences, and help create supportive learning environments for students with disabilities while ensuring confidentiality and by working flexibly as needed.

Qualifications

• Licensed Occupational Therapist with state credentials.
• Minimum of three years of experience in educational settings.

Responsibilities

• Complete and maintain necessary records of student progress.
• Evaluate student progress and update IEPs.
• Hold conferences with the professional staff.
• Conduct evaluations of student physical abilities to formulate therapy goals/objectives.
• Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs within the school community.
• Assist classroom teachers in providing an environment conducive to learning for students with disabilities receiving OT services.
• Recommend changes in student classroom environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Willing to work flexible hours as needed.
• Excellent communications, interpersonal and leadership skills.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Cross-department collaboration

Education

Licensed Occupational Therapist

Job description

Essential Functions

The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Complete and maintain necessary records of student progress
• Evaluate student progress and update IEPs
• Hold conferences with the professional staff
• Conduct evaluations of student physical abilities to formulate recommended therapy goals/objectives
• Select experiences/activities to assist students in becoming as independent as possible
• Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs within the school community
• Assist classroom teachers in providing an environment conducive to learning for students with disabilities receiving OT services
• Recommend changes in student classroom environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities
• Participate on a school assistive technology team
• Maintain confidentiality
• Willing to work flexible hours as needed.
• Excellent communications, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to work across departments with varied audiences
• Performs other related duties as assigned or directed

Miscellaneous

This position requires a valid driver?s license

Minimum Qualifications

• Certified and licensed as an Occupational Therapist
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in an educational setting as a Occupational Therapist

Performance Aptitudes

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data. Includes exercising discretion in determining data classification, and in referencing such analysis to established standards for the purpose of recognizing actual or probable interactive effects and relationships.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, effective supervision, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems, philosophies, laws, regulations, and procedures; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria and the goals and priorities of planning and development programs.

Ada Compliance

• Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (up to 50 pounds). Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
• Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
• Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as rude/irate customers.

FLSA: EXEMPT