COTA-Clinic Based, W2, Full Caseload Immediately Available

Central Florida Dreamplex•Clermont, FL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Central Florida Dreamplex is hiring a full-time, clinic-based Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant in Clermont, Florida. The position serves clients of all ages in a fully equipped sensory gym and has a full caseload immediately available. The organization also offers recreational programs and adaptive sports clinics that benefit clients outside therapy. Under occupational therapist supervision, the COTA contributes to evaluations and individualized plans of care, selects and implements interventions, monitors and communicates client progress, and documents services. The role involves supporting clients’ performance, safety, and social participation across school, home, and community environments, and collaborating with families, educational personnel, and multidisciplinary teams.

Requirements

Florida COTA licensure (required).
Ability to gather screening and evaluation data and complete checklists, histories, and interviews to assist with treatment planning.
Knowledge of human development across the lifespan and basic occupational therapy theories, models of practice, principles, and evidence-based practice.
Ability to provide occupation-based interventions to support client participation.
Ability to recognize occupational performance deficits in personal care, client roles and interactive skills, process skills, play, community integration and work, and graphic communication.
Ability to articulate how sociocultural, socioeconomic, and diversity factors influence occupational performance.
Effective oral and written communication and documentation skills.
Ability to prepare and maintain accurate records and progress notes.
Ability to commute reliably to or relocate to Clermont, Florida.

Nice To Haves

One year of Early Steps experience.

Responsibilities

Contribute to occupational therapist evaluations using functional, behavioral, and standardized assessments, data collection, checklists, interviews, and observations.
Provide timely data and input to the occupational therapist for evaluations, reevaluations, and discharge summaries.
Contribute to the development of individualized intervention plans of care.
Select and implement therapeutic interventions based on the intervention plan to support client performance, safety, and social participation.
Select, adapt, and sequence occupations and purposeful activities that support intervention goals.
Modify environments, equipment, materials, devices, and processes as appropriate, including applying ergonomic principles.
Analyze tasks in relation to occupations, performance skills, activity demands, contexts, and client factors; modify treatments as appropriate.
Use professional literature to inform practice decisions and apply good time-management skills.
Maintain safe environments, equipment, and materials.
Explain intervention techniques to clients, parents, and educational personnel.
Monitor client progress and intervention effects, communicate findings to the occupational therapist, and identify needs for continuation, modification, or termination of intervention.
Document occupational therapy interventions according to guidelines and maintain accurate records and progress notes.
Participate in multidisciplinary team communication about client progress.
Explain the roles of the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist in evaluation, intervention planning, and intervention to caregivers and other disciplines.
Use technology for staff communication and electronic medical record systems.