Job Description:

The Occupational Therapist is the second level of a two level series. Incumbents are responsible
for screening, evaluating, and providing services within the professional occupational therapy
scope of practice including the evaluation and planning of individual education plans (I.E.P.s).
Duties include screening and evaluating referred students; remediation, restoration, or activity
compensation treatment; using assistive technology services for educationally-related functional
deficits; planning and preparing activities for students; providing recommendations to teachers and
parents; preparing progress reports; and supervising and monitoring job performance and case load of
Certified Occupational Therapist Assistants.
Incumbents supervise staff performing a full range of supervisory duties including directing work,
training and coaching, discipline, and performance evaluation. Incumbents may be working
supervisors and as such may be responsible for performing the same duties as those they supervise.
The Occupational Therapist is distinguished from the Occupational Therapist Assistant in that the
former has responsibility for evaluation and planning of individual education plans (I.E.P.s)
whereas the latter provides services specified in the I.E.P.

Duties & Responsibilities:  Incumbents are resposible for screening, evaluating, and providing services within the professional occupational therapy scope of practice including the evaluation and planning of individual education plans (IEPs)