KVCC Occupational Therapy Laboratory Assistant

Maine Community College System•Bangor, ME

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The KVCC Occupational Therapy Laboratory Assistant will provide instruction and facilitate learning experiences to assist students in gaining the required skills to support entry-level OTA Competency. This role involves creating a forum for students to gain skills as an OTA student, engaging in weekly supervision and planning meetings, maintaining student attendance and competency engagement logs, and assessing students for readiness and competence. The assistant will provide sign-off for students demonstrating expected skill and knowledge, assess student performance in lab activities, and communicate regularly with OTA faculty regarding student progress, learning needs, and lab operations. Additionally, the role requires understanding and enforcing lab policies, maintaining safety, supervising learning and competency lab activities, providing feedback, participating in lab practicals, and evaluating students at the end of the semester. The assistant will also communicate with the OTA Program Director regarding lab supplies and ensure the lab is clean after each session.

Requirements

Applicant must be credentialed as an Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) or Occupational Therapist (OT).
Must be able to demonstrate competence in the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to support specific course learning, OTS 101 Introduction to Occupational Therapy and Human Occupation, for example: human development, activity analysis, therapeutic use of self, cultural humility, transfers, treatment modalities and interventions commonly associated with various populations treated by occupational practitioners (i.e. physical limitations and psychosocial dysfunctions across the life span), and documentation.
Effective oral and written communication skills are required.
Must also be knowledgeable about methods for student evaluation.

Responsibilities

Provide instruction and facilitate learning experiences to assist students in gaining the required skills to support entry-level OTA Competency.
Provide a forum in which students can experience, and gain skills required of them as an OTA student.
Engage in weekly supervision/planning meetings with other Lab assistants, Faculty, and Program Director.
Maintain attendance of students as well as logging student competency engagement.
Assess students for readiness and expected level of competence (based on class objectives) before the final “sign off”.
Provide sign-off for a student demonstrating the expected level of skill and knowledge performance.
Assess student performance in open/competency lab activities to provide OTA Faculty information to best impact student learning needs.
Check in with OTA faculty weekly to ensure consistency is maintained between course learning lab/theory and open lab.
Inform OTA faculty re: student issues, learning needs, level of participation and attendance, etc. which may impact student’s progress.
Inform OTA faculty regarding lab assistant schedule changes, needs for resources/requests/and assistance.
Maintain effective communication with OTA Faculty.
Understand lab policies and maintain established lab rules as well as develop specific rules per each lab to maintain safety.
Supervise learning lab activities, including interpersonal interactions, and provide necessary feedback to students.
Supervise all open/competency lab activities, including interpersonal interactions, and provide necessary feedback to students.
Participate in lab practical(s), as contracted or specified.
Evaluate students at the end of the semester for lab skills competency through a final lab practical.
Maintain safety in the lab at all times and ensure that the OTA lab is clean after each lab.
Communicate with the OTA Program Director regarding needed lab supplies.