SY 26-27 Occupational Therapist

Conservatory Lab Charter School

Occupational Therapist 

Conservatory Lab Charter School empowers a diverse range of children in preschool through eighth grade as scholars, artists, and leaders through a unique and rigorous academic and music education. We enrich the larger community through performance, service, and collaboration. As a laboratory school, we develop and disseminate innovative educational approaches that will positively impact children in other schools and programs.

The Occupational therapist provides occupational therapy services as designated by a student’s IEP. Conservatory Lab Charter School seeks an individual who is passionate about supporting students to meet their full potential. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with teachers, other related service providers and parents to ensure understanding of student’s occupational performance strengths and needs, through evaluation, educational program planning, and service delivery.

• Evaluate students through a variety of functional, behavioral, and standardized assessments, skilled observation, checklists, histories, and interviews.

• Synthesize evaluation results into a comprehensive written report which reflects strengths and barriers to student participation in the educational environment.

• Participate in multidisciplinary meetings to review evaluation results, integrate findings with other disciplines, offer recommendations, and develop individual education plans and intervention plans to achieve IEP goals.

• Provides targeted, evidence-based therapeutic intervention to facilitate student participation and occupational performance within the school environment.

• Collect data for decision making and progress monitoring.

• Schedule direct services using a variety of service delivery models, including classroom intervention, consultation/collaboration and pull-out sessions as appropriate to meet student needs in the least restrictive environment.

• Maintain easily accessible and accurate student files.

• Safeguard confidentiality of student records. 

• Complete logging of services for third party reimbursement accurately and in a timely manner.

• Monitor and reassess the effects of specific occupational therapy intervention and the need to continue, modify, or discontinue services.

• Adapt and modify environments, equipment, and materials.

• Train instructional staff to meet individual needs and to help students function as independently as possible.

• Manage inventory of therapeutic equipment.

• Attend reconvened Team meetings and parent-teacher conferences. 

• Attend all IEP meetings in accordance with assigned students

• Develop appropriate IEPs and/or 504 Plans based on students’ strengths and needs and demonstrates awareness of professional performance in due process matters and litigious environments.

•  Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Principal or the Special Ed Director

Your Skill Set:

As the incoming Occupational Therapist you will possess many, though perhaps not all, of the following characteristics and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher from an accredited Occupational Therapy program.

• Registered Occupational Therapist.

• Massachusetts License or the ability to obtain Massachusetts licensure in Occupational Therapy.  

• Experience teaching and/or working in an urban school system with special needs students.

• Knowledge of sensory motor integration techniques.