Occupational Therapist

Description

Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are cultivating a WARP Multidisciplinary Clinic and looking to staff Occupational Therapists to provide their services to veterans in our Rockville, MD headquarters. The Occupational Therapist is expected to perform the following:   

• Evaluate ADLs, instrumental ADLs, cognition, vision, sensory processing, upper-extremity function and environmental barriers.
• Develop individualized treatment plans addressing dressing, bathing, feeding, cooking, household tasks, school, work and community participation.
• Provide upper-extremity rehabilitation, fine-motor training, coordination and therapeutic activities.
• Conduct cognitive, perceptual and functional-safety assessments.
• Provide adaptive-equipment, splinting and assistive-technology recommendations.
• Deliver simulated kitchen, bathroom, work and home-management training.
• Complete home, school or workplace assessments when authorized.
• Support pediatric sensory regulation and functional participation.
• Collaborate with BCBAs and ABA personnel while maintaining the OT’s independent scope of practice.
• Provide caregiver training and environmental-modification recommendations.
• Participate in return-to-work and community-reintegration planning.
• Supervise occupational therapy assistants and students as permitted.

Requirements

 Minimum qualifications

• Graduate of an ACOTE-accredited occupational-therapy program.
• Active, unrestricted Maryland occupational-therapist license.
• NBCOT certification or eligibility consistent with state requirements.
• Current BLS certification.

Maryland regulates occupational therapy through the Maryland Board of Occupational Therapy Practice.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in neurological, pediatric, hand, geriatric or vocational rehabilitation.
• Training in sensory processing, assistive technology, low vision or cognitive rehabilitation.
• Experience working with autism and interdisciplinary ABA teams.
• Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist, Certified Hand Therapist or comparable advanced credential.

Performance indicators

• Improvement in ADL and instrumental-ADL performance.
• Goal attainment and caregiver competence.
• Successful school, work or community participation.
• Adaptive-equipment delivery and utilization.
• Documentation and authorization compliance.
• Patient safety and satisfaction.