Travel Occupational Therapist - $3,306 per week

Triage Staffing; Bakersfield (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Weekly paychecks

Continuing education reimbursement

Housing options

Job summary

Travel Occupational Therapist needed in Bakersfield, California. This assignment runs 26 weeks, with 40 hours per week, dayshift, in a school-based setting. Prior School-Based therapy experience is required as the traveler will operate independently within a small school district.

Triage Staffing facilitates competitive compensation, day-one benefits, and dedicated support from a clinical liaison team. If you’re ready to live and work in sunny Bakersfield while making a meaningful impact, apply

Qualifications

• School-Based OT experience required; traveler will operate independently at a small school district in Bakersfield.

Responsibilities

• School-Based OT duties in a travel capacity; operate independently within a small school district in Bakersfield.

Job description

Triage Staffing is seeking a travel Occupational Therapist for a travel job in Bakersfield, California.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Occupational Therapist
• Discipline: Therapy
• Start Date: 11/16/2026
• Duration: 26 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

The School-Based OT is a new need, which is very unique and from time to time has come up for us, but we need a traveler OT who can work in a School-Based setting here in Bakersfield. This candidate needs to have prior School-Based therapy experience as they will be operating independently at a small school district here in Bakersfield.

About Triage Staffing

At Triage, we prefer to be real . Real about expectations—both ours and yours. Real about how a decision you make today could affect your tomorrows. Real about how compensation actually works. Real about how great—or grating—your next supervisor may be.

Being real allows everyone at Triage to be ready . Ready to serve you with real honesty. So if that gig near the ocean is really no day at the beach, or that third shift comes with a second-class rate, we tell you. So you can be ready, too.

We staff all five major divisions of acute care—nursing, lab, radiology, cardiopulmonary and rehab therapy, offering:

• - Competitive, custom pay packages
• - One point of contact for both travelers and facilities (per division)
• - A reliable recruiter who's got your back throughout your entire assignment
• - In-house compliance and accounting specialists
• - A clinical liaison team available 24/7 to offer medical and professional support and career development
• - A mentoring program that is run and managed by actual clinicians—yeah, you read that right
• - And more (because of course there’s more)

Are we the biggest? No. Are we the best? That’s rather subjective, but we’re trying to be. Will we work like hell to get you as close to your idea of heaven as possible? Yes. Yes, we will.

Benefits

• Day One comprehensive, nationwide insurance plans for health, vision and dental and life—including a HSA option
• Day One 401(k) program with employer-matching contributions once eligible
• Facility cancelling protection—your time is money on and off-the-clock
• Guaranteed hours
• Weekly paychecks via direct deposit
• Earned vacation bonuses for time worked
• Paid holidays
• Employee assistance program (EAP)—your mental health is important, too
• Continuing education, certification and licensing reimbursement
• Workers comp—because accidents happen
• Top-rated professional liability insurance
• Company provided housing options
• Referral bonus—$750 in your pocket after they’ve completed a 13-week assignment