Occupational Therapist - Community Transitional Aged Youth and Adult

JOB SUMMARY: Sycamores provides a spectrum of equitable mental health services through various programs to multicultural populations of all acuities. Although it serves a variety of consumers, the agency focuses primarily on providing care for low-income, high at-risk youth.

Provides professional occupational therapy services to assist consumers with mental or physical disabilities to attain, regain, or maintain physical and/or mental functioning or to adjust to their disabilities.

Starting Pay Range:

$100,000 - $110,000 per year for Full-Time employment (starting pay will be based on previous work experience and educational background.)

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (These are the essential job functions for this position. The essential functions of this job include but may not be limited to those listed in this job description. Employees hired for this position must be able to perform the essential function of this job without imposing significant risk of substantial harm to the health or safety of themselves or others.)

• Provides occupational therapy services to Child & Adult consumers in a community mental health setting.
• Administers a variety of evaluation tests to assess the nature and extent of impaired function, capacities, and limitations such as range of motion, muscle coordination, cognition, developmental stage, and life roles.
• Performs evaluation procedures to determine consumers’ performance capacities and deficits such as functional, cognitive, visual, and perceptual abilities; assesses consumers’ interests, goals, environment, and psychological and emotional conditions, including interpersonal and social attitudes and behaviors.
• Analyzes evaluation test results to establish realistic treatment goals, predict anticipated level of functioning and time to achieve it; plans and develop sequential treatment programs; assesses patients' progress; communicates test results and measurements to physicians, members of allied health disciplines, and consumers’ families; develops and modifies initial and subsequent treatment programs consistent with the changing needs of the consumer.
• Selects treatment methods and techniques that are compatible with consumers’ needs and capacities by assigning activities of interest which will develop desired motions, responses, attitudes, behaviors, or mental function; treatment programs may include individual and group activities such as manual arts, crafts, games, music, exercises, and sensory-motor integration, and practice in functional, pre-vocational, homemaking skills and activities of daily living.
• Confers with interdisciplinary mental health team, and families/other supports regarding evaluation, treatment, progress, and disposition of consumers; considers suggestions made by Clinicians, Community Wellness Specialist, Psychiatrist, and other team members.
• Coordinates consumer treatment and results with other professionals and agencies such as physicians, nurses, social workers, and families to provide total care to the consumer.
• Participates in continuing education/staff development programs and other departmental and professional licensing requirements as indicated.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctorate Degree, Graduate program accredited by the American Occupational Therapy Association Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE).
• Possess a current and valid Occupational Therapy License per California State requirements.
• Two years occupational therapy experience preferred.
• Maintains all required licenses and certifications.
• Valid California Driver License and a driving record acceptable to the Agency’s insurance carrier.
• Ability to use a personal car with appropriate insurance for all Agency business and adhering to federal, state, and local motor vehicle safety standards when transporting children.

Additional Requirements:

• Previous experience working in behavioral health setting, providing services to the child & adult populations in areas such as community mental health or closely related field.
• Previous experience working with individuals experiencing severe and persistent mental illness and children with special needs in areas such as in healthcare or schools or closely related field.

All candidates who are presented with a conditional offer of employment must satisfy a pre-employment background check, drug, and health screen.

Sycamores is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Further, Sycamores is a Fair Chance employer and complies with California Government Code Section 12952, Employment Discrimination: Conviction History.