What are the responsibilities and job description for the Occupational Therapy Assistant position at Warren County Educational Service Center?
WARREN COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER
An Equal Opportunity Employer
CERTIFIED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT
Title: Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
Reports to: Assistant Superintendent of Student Programming and Services
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Qualifications:
Essential Functions:
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
Additional Working Conditions:
An Equal Opportunity Employer
CERTIFIED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT
Title: Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
Reports to: Assistant Superintendent of Student Programming and Services
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Qualifications:
- Valid Ohio Occupational Therapy Assistant License
- Associate Degree
- Valid Ohio Department of Education Occupational Therapy Assistant License
- Valid Ohio driver's license.
- Access to own motor vehicle.
- Effective communication skills in English.
- Ability to maneuver stairs unassisted.
- Pass criminal background check.
Essential Functions:
- Assist the Occupational Therapist in collecting data for evaluation and conducting student observations/screenings for multifactored evaluations.
- Work cooperatively with local district administrators, administrators of assigned schools, teachers, parents, occupational therapists and other support personnel, providing consultation as needed.
- Assist the Occupational Therapist in developing IEP goals to meet individual needs and to maintain complete student files for all students enrolled for service.
- Provide therapy to improve, develop or restore sensory motor functions impaired or lost through illness, injury and/or deprivation as related to the educational program and to prevent, through early intervention, initial or further impairment or loss of function, under the direction of a registered occupational therapist.
- Summarize, record and report data to the occupational therapist at appropriate times.
- Prepare and maintain work setting, equipment and supplies.
- Carry materials to and from worksite.
- Maintain an efficient and effective itinerant schedule to multiple schools.
- Submit all administrative reports and forms by the deadline stipulated.
- Remain current in the profession and actively participate in growth and development programs.
- Function as a consultant with the child's parents and school personnel.
- Attend IEP meetings and conferences with parents and school personnel as directed.
- Able to lift and maneuver 40 pounds of weight.
- Frequent lifting of handicapped children.
- Maintain required certificate(s) and/or license(s).
- Demonstrate regular and predictable attendance.
- Attend appropriate workshops and professional meetings.
- Perform all duties in conformity to the adopted Board Policy.
- Display professional appearance.
- Perform in a professional manner.
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serves as a role model for educators and students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings.
- Helps instill in students and staff the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values.
- Shall perform such other duties as the Governing Board may assign/determine.
- The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or nonprescribed controlled substance abuse in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the County/District.
- Observes Risk Reduction Safety Rules and Regulations of the Warren County ESC and School Districts, State, Federal OSHA laws and will be evaluated to the extent of compliance and implementation as an employee of such rules and regulations for safety in the workplace while visiting such sites in line of work duties.
Additional Working Conditions:
- Possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and tissue.
- Possible operation of a vehicle under inclement weather conditions.
- Possible interaction among unruly children.
