Occupational Therapist - Pediatric

KYFS is a non-profit Agency founded in 1970 serving low income and under-resourced children and families to high quality mental health and substance use disorder services, early childhood education, and after school programs.

We are looking for a Pediatric Occupational Therapist to add to our staff. Working within the occupational therapist’s scope of practice and following all laws and state licensure and national registration, this position evaluates and treats pediatric patients with physical, emotional, or developmental conditions to improve their ability to perform daily tasks and activities. The therapist will work collaboratively with patients, families, and other healthcare professionals to develop personalized treatment plans that promote independence and enhance quality of life. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Patient Assessment: Conduct initial and comprehensive assessments to evaluate patients' physical, emotional, and cognitive abilities, to determine patient’s needs and goals. 
• Treatment Planning: Develop individualized treatment plans based on patient goals and needs, often in consultation with physicians. 
• Therapeutic Activities: Implement therapeutic interventions and activities to promote independence in daily activities through development of motor skills, functional communication skills, adaptive skills, social skills, visual perceptual skills, and/or self-regulation skills. 
• Progress Evaluation: Monitor and document patient progress, adjusting treatment plans as necessary to ensure optimal outcomes. 
• Patient Education: Educate patients and their families about treatment plans, options, exercises, and strategies for on-going care. 
• Collaboration: Work with a multidisciplinary team, including doctors, nurses, and other therapists, to provide comprehensive care. 

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Utilizes leadership and collaboration skills to co-develop the OT program within an established Behavioral Health clinic. 
• Delivers personalized treatment sessions following an occupational therapy plan of care for patients typically within the ages of 5-18 with disabilities, neurodivergence, and/or developmental delays in self-regulation skills, functional communication skills, social emotional skills, motor skills, and/or adaptive skills. 
• Provides comprehensive occupational therapy evaluation inclusive of parent questionnaire, standardized assessment, observation of skills, and/or parent or caregiver report to develop plan of care that meets medical necessity.  
• Develops a plan of care that includes specific and measurable goals that are appropriately written and scaled according to the client's current level of function and functional need(s). 
• Grades therapy activities in response to client's skill and performance during session to provide adequate challenge needed for growth and learning.  
• Documents treatment sessions to illustrate scope of activities and client performance, justify continued need of occupational therapy service, and to track session-specific data of progress toward goals.  
• Documents long-term growth toward goals in progress notes and/or re-evaluation documents, as required by payer sources or facility.  
• Documents discharge summaries including summary of progress made, reason for discharge, follow-up recommendations, and/or home programming.   
• Utilizes gross motor equipment within reasonable parameters for avoiding undue risk for injury. 
• Follows federal HIPAA laws to maintain patient confidentiality. 
• Maintains client safety through reasonable preventive measures, anticipation, and reaction to potential safety concerns.
• Maintains safe and clean work environment by complying with company's procedures, rules and regulations, inclusive of infection-control protocols. 
• Maintains WA State occupational therapy licensure inclusive of required continuing education requirements.  
• Follows federal, state, and company regulations and laws related to treatment and delivery of occupational therapy services.