What are the responsibilities and job description for the Outpatient Occupational Therapist position at Common Threads?
Common Threads is looking for a healing-focused, neurodiversity-affirming, and culturally sensitive occupational therapist to join our growing team.
Common Threads is a mid-sized nonprofit agency located on Madison’s East side. Our mission is to empower individuals of all ages with autism, mental health, and sensory differences by providing meaningful support to them and their families. We accomplish this by offering a variety of evidence-based, personalized therapeutic and educational services built on an individual’s strengths, needs, and goals. We believe in the inherent worth of every client that walks through our door and we embrace all families who seek out our agency. We partner together, with dedicated and compassionate services and support, to help facilitate growth and development. It is our privilege to be of service.
But, Common Threads is more than the services we provide. Our current team consists of individuals with a wide variety of training backgrounds, life experiences, work styles, and interest areas. We genuinely care about our clinicians’ journeys and actively support the personal and professional growth of our team. We lift each other up, help each other grow through our experiences, and push each other to provide the best services possible to our clients every day. We value the diverse perspectives of our teammates and prioritize collaboration as a means to elevate the impact of our work.
Our team is looking for OTs who are flexible, patient, playful, and creative. OTs at Common Threads experience improved work life balance via freedom to create their own schedules, customize their caseloads based on their individual needs, and develop their unique therapeutic styles to reach clients. Common Threads provides supervision, mentorship, professional development opportunities, and in-house administrative, scheduling, and billing support. Full-time employees are eligible for health, dental, and vision insurance, a professional development stipend, 5 weeks of PTO per calendar year, and a retirement account (switching to matched 401k in January, 2023). Common Threads is a public student loan forgiveness program qualifying employer.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Occupational Therapy from an accredited program
- Valid WI license as an Occupational Therapist (or ability to apply for temporary license)
- Commitment to evidence-based practices and ethical standards
- Strong organizational and administrative skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Have reliable transportation and auto insurance that meets our agency’s requirements (if applicable)
Common Threads is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As such, Common Threads complies with laws prohibiting discrimination against employees or qualified applicants for employment in hiring or in any decision affecting job status or pay on the basis of age, race, ethnicity, religion, color, gender, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, cultural differences, ancestry, physical appearance, arrest record or conviction record, military participation or membership in the national guard, state defense force or any other reserve component of the military forces of the United States, or political beliefs, or any other status protected by federal, state, and/or or local laws.
Common Threads and all subcontractors agree not to discriminate on the basis of disability in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, the Wisconsin Statutes secs. 111.321 and 111.34, and Chapter 19 of the Dane County Code of Ordinances.
