Occupational Therapist
- Employer
- Alexandria City Public Schools
- Location
- Alexandria, Virginia
- Closing date
- Oct 30, 2020
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- Industry
- Healthcare
- Function
- Counselor and Therapist
- Hours
- Full Time
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
Job Details
The Occupational Therapist works cooperatively with students, parents, and teachers to enable the students to reach their educational goals; emphasizes remediation of compensation for perceptual, sensory, visual, fine-motor, and self-car deficits; provides an appropriate educational program for handicapped students; utilizes a medically based training to evaluate and apply purposeful, goal-directed, developmentally sequenced activities to enhance the student's potential for learning.
Qualifications:
Education: Minimum Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy.
Certificates & Licenses: Valid Virginia Department of Education license required, or the ability to obtain one.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must have completed an accredited education program and all fieldwork education requirements.
- Must be certified by the Occupational Therapy Certification Board (OTCB) following successfully completion of the national certification examination.
Experience:
- Must have successfully completed a pediatric affiliation and have two (2) years of prior work experience.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the administration may deem appropriate.
Desired:
- Experience with school aged handicapped children.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Essential Functions
- Train parents and staff in proper techniques of positioning, handling, dressing, and feeding handicapped students as required to meet their special needs.
- Recommend necessary equipment and adaptations and, when possible, construct such equipment and adaptations.
- Consult with teachers in planning and updating classroom programs for fine-motor and perceptual-motor activities.
- Conduct home visits, group presentations or individual teaching of parents, teachers, and other school personnel on normal and abnormal child development, medical aspects of handicapping conditions, therapeutic techniques, proper body mechanics, etc.
Assessment and Evaluation
- Evaluate new student referrals within a reasonable time. A written report is to follow the evaluation, indicating the need for therapy.
- Use standardized tests, and customized measures and/or observation to evaluate the student in areas of cognitive-perceptual-motor skills, motor coordination, psychological development, self-care, muscle strength and range of motion, postural reflexes, needs for adaptive devices and protheses, and vocational skills.
- The therapist, with parent permission may make home visits for the purpose of evaluating the child within his/her home environment (Note: Director of Special Education permission should also be obtained).
- Evaluate treatment effectiveness by observation, testing, communication with family and other sources.
Planning and Treatment
- Direct Services Utilize treatment procedures involving physical, sensory, manual, creative and recreational or play activities that are designed to:
- Maintain or improve motor functioning such as normal developmental motor patterns, range of motion, muscle strength, gross and fine motor coordination, and activity tolerance.
- Improve level of functioning in the areas of visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic perception, and cognitive-perceptual-motor integration skills.
- Improve psychosocial development by aiding ego development, developing social interaction skills, and helping the child discover constructive alternatives.
- Help the child achieve a maximum level of independence in toileting, feeding, personal hygiene, dressing, grooming, and mobility.
- Help the child acquire homemaking and vocational skills and appropriate work habits through prevocational activities.
- Instruct the student in the use of functional adaptive equipment and devices.
- Indirect Services (Other services provided by the occupational therapist in the school).
Clearances:
- Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance.
- Tuberculosis Skin Test.
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Primary Location:
Central Office
Salary Range:
Teachers and Other Licensed Staff Salary Scale (http://www.acps.k12.va.us/hr/compensation/)
Shift Type:
Full-Time
Company
Alexandria City Public Schools is one of the most diverse school systems in the country and we celebrate that diversity. Our students come from more than 80 different countries, speak more than 60 languages, and represent a rainbow of ethnic and cultural groups. They are economically diverse, but all are rich in that the residents of Alexandria are dedicated to ensuring that each and every one of them achieves success.
The children of Alexandria have benefited significantly from the strong support of City Council and the Alexandria community over the years. Tremendous gains have been made in student achievement and ACPS continues to be in the forefront of technology integration.
T.C. Williams High School is on the cutting edge, both inside and out. The award-winning building features numerous environmentally sound features, such as a 450,000-gallon underground cistern that collects and stores rainwater for building use, and a rooftop garden that provides stormwater management. The redesigned educational program at T.C. consists of smaller learning communities designed to increase academic achievement and the level of student engagement. Students feel more connected to caring adults, and teachers have more opportunity to know and support their students.
The City of Alexandria was recently named one of the Top 100 Communities for Young People by America's Promise, partly because of the quality of our schools and programs. A recent City survey indicates that the number of people who made the decision to live in Alexandria based on the quality of the schools has increased since 2004. We have many reasons to celebrate. ACPS is truly an urban success!
- Location
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2000 N Beauregard St
Alexandria
VA
22314
US
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