Description

The Children's Guild is a nonprofit organization serving children, families, and child-serving organizations. We are dedicated to transforming how America educates and cares for its children through education, behavioral health, management, and consulting services. The Children's Guild operates the Monarch Academy public charter and contract schools, Monarch Preschool College Park, The Children's Guild DC Public Charter School, The Children's Guild Transformation Academy, the TranZed Academy for Working Students, TranZed Apprenticeships, therapeutic group homes, treatment foster care, and outpatient mental health clinics. We are among the most experienced child-serving organizations in the Greater Baltimore/Washington region and are currently expanding in national and international programs. Each year, the agency's continuum of care and hundreds of professional staff help thousands of youths and young adults and their families to achieve, excel and succeed. We invite you to be part of our innovative team!

Are you interested in working with an organization that is transforming the way America cares for and educates its children?

The Children's Guild is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to provide occupational therapy services to children who demonstrate a functional inability to perform in an educational environment.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Demonstrates ability to screen, select appropriate assessment tools and evaluate the occupational performance of children in an educational setting.

• Demonstrates ability to acquire information about students' functional skills, roles, and context.

• Demonstrates ability to prioritize needs and synthesize information obtained from the occupational profile for the effective treatment planning process.

• Demonstrates ability to select effective treatment strategies that are developmentally appropriate and educationally relevant towards the long-term goals.

• Demonstrates ability to develop, modify and execute treatment plans considering best practices, evidence-based and clinical reasoning.

• Demonstrates ability to execute meaningful and effective treatment plans per student's IEP.

• Demonstrates ability to clearly and confidently articulate information and assessment results through written and oral reports that reflect the following criteria: specific, objective, organized, free from grammatical errors, readable for all and other non-professional readers, and adheres to the policies and procedures of the organization, AOTA, and Maryland OT guidelines.

• Maintains well-written documentation, including daily service trackers, quarterly progress reports, billing, and IEP documentation according to the policies and procedures of the school and Maryland OT guidelines.

• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and consult with families and other professionals to identify students' current needs and prioritization of educationally relevant treatment goals.

• Demonstrates ability to employ effective problem-solving strategies emphasizing individual self-direction and flexibility.

• Proactively responds to environmental stressors, challenging student behaviors, and multiple demands of working in a school setting.

• Adheres to all the identified policies and procedures related to compliance and safety guidelines.

• Participates in planning and regularly reviews professional growth plans.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual will retain accountability for the following Key Result Areas (KRAs).

Key Result Area #1: Documentation

1. Timely development, collaboration, and writing of IEPs

2. Timely completion of quarterly progress reports for each student within their IEP

3. Completing accurate and timely service notes and service trackers

Key Result Area # 2: Service

1. Providing services as mandated in each student's IEP

2. Consulting with classroom staff regarding student services and interventions to assist with student success.

Key Result Area # 3: Communication

1. Collaboration with the IEP Team

2. Communicating with parents/guardians concerning student progress and interventions to assist student success and completing documentation of communication services in the electronic record and/or school databases.

3. Providing discipline-specific expertise through collaboration with other team members, including classroom staff.

4. Maintain open lines of communication with supervisor and keep supervisor updated.

Key Result Area # 4: Professional Growth

1. Participate in school-based professional development and orientation training.

2. Complete annual training required by the organization and regulatory bodies.

3. Attend external training, webinars, and/or courses to maintain licensure.

4. Participate in supervision sessions and school meetings.

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

Possess a Bachelor's or Masters Degree from an accredited Occupational Therapy Program. A minimum of one year of experience working with children with disabilities is preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

1. Possess a valid certificate from the National Board of Certified Occupational Therapists (NBCOT) or eligible for certification.

2. Possess a current (or temporary) Maryland State license as an Occupational Therapist or eligible for certification.

3. Certified in or eligible for certification in crisis management.

4. Certified in or eligible for certification in CPR/First Aid.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus.

All Children's Guild employees are expected to demonstrate an awareness of, respect for, and attention to the diversity of the people with whom they interact (person served, personnel, families/caregivers, and other stakeholders) that are reflected in attitudes, organizational structure, policies, and services.

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