Occupational Therapist at Citizenship Academy

Syracuse Academy of Science Charter School; City of Syracuse (NY); Presencial; USD 65.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical

Dental

Vision

Long-term disability

Employee assistance program

TRS/403b retirement options

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development opportunities

Technology in classrooms

Descripción de la vacante

The Citizenship Academy is seeking an Occupational Therapist to join the Syracuse Academy of Science Charter School team for the school year. The OT will serve a K-6 caseload within a collaborative school model, providing individual and group services and integrating OT goals into daily activities.

Responsibilities include graphomotor, sensory, and visual-spatial interventions, collaboration with staff, and ongoing progress documentation.

Formación

• Experience with a diverse student population or urban setting is a plus.
• Growth mindset and flexibility to adapt to change.
• Ability to communicate progress with parents and teachers.

Responsabilidades

• Provide individual and group occupational therapy services to K-6 students.
• Build graphomotor, sensory, and visual-spatial skills in engaging ways.
• Support integration of OT goals and sensory regulation into daily routines.
• Collaborate with staff to integrate executive functioning instruction.
• Attend weekly psychosocial team meetings and document progress.
• Communicate with families and outside providers as needed and at least monthly.

Conocimientos

Strong speaking skills

Organization skills

Growth mindset

Data-driven instruction

Herramientas

Google Suite Drive Docs

Descripción del empleo

Occupational Therapist at Citizenship Academy

Non-instructional Support Full Time Syracuse, NY, US

The Citizenship Academy is looking for an occupational therapist to join our team for the 2021-22 school year. The occupational therapist works with a caseload of students in K-6th grade. Clinical services in our School are provided in a highly collaborative and integrated manner so as to generalize skills for success in natural and nuanced environments.

• Provide individual and group occupational therapy services to students within a collaborative and integrated school model.
• Provide graphomotor, sensory, and visual-spatial skill building interventions in creative ways.
• Provide support to other clinical and academic staff to integrate occupational therapy goals and individualized sensory regulation strategies into other contexts throughout the school day.
• Collaborate with other clinical and academic staff to integrate explicit instruction in executive functioning skills throughout the school day.
• Participate in and/or lead aspects of movement, health and wellness, student electives/clubs, or other classes as assigned.
• Participate in calls with outside providers and parents as needed and at a minimum of once per month.
• Meet with parents/guardians to provide feedback on students’ progress as needed and at minimum at scheduled parent-teacher conferences.
• Record clinical progress for each student.
• Participate in weekly Psychosocial team meetings with all faculty and staff.
• Actively participate in planning with direct supervisor.
• Competently utilize Google Suite, in particular Google Drive and Docs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What we can provide

• Excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, employee assistance program and more!
• Enrollment in the NYS Teacher Retirement System (TRS) or 403b employer match
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Bonus & Incentive Programs
• Professional development opportunities. Coaches and mentors in every building!
• Regular use and integration of technology in our classrooms and throughout our school, including SMARTboards, IPADs, Chromebooks, internet and apps

What you need

Qualifications:

• Experience with a diverse population of students or in an urban setting a plus
• Prior teaching experience preferred and novice teachers encouraged to apply!
• Fingerprint clearance through NYS Department of Education
• Growth-mindset, flexible and ok with change
• Strong speaking skills (needed to attend frequent presentation of data at meetings)
• Organization skills to maintain student files and records
• Intrinsically motivated
• Strong conviction that all students can succeed
• The ability to take feedback well and immediately implementComfortable with the use of data and analytics to help drive instruction and promote learning

Want to learn more about our district? Be sure to check out the following links to get a closer look at our schools, hear from our parents and see what our state and community leaders are saying about SANY.

District Website: www.sany.org

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