Special Education Occupational Therapist

Summary/Objective:

Uplift Michigan Online School must provide an excellent education to all our students consistent with the mission, vision, and goals of the school and with the core values of Summit Management Consulting. Your primary goal is to ensure that each of your students is learning subject matter identified in the State standards and the Uplift Michigan Online School curriculum.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provides direct and indirect occupational therapy services specifically for each student based upon their Individualized Education Program (IEP).
• Plans and implements activities that allow students to access and benefit from their specialized instruction.
• Plans therapy intervention programs to support specific educational activities of students.
• Provides training to parents, guardians, and teachers to carry out therapy goals in the school setting.
• Consults with teachers, school staff, administration, and parents as appropriate, regarding students’ development.
• Collaborates with school administration and parents in developing, implementing, evaluating, and maintaining occupational therapy interventions.
• Maintains an accurate record of therapy sessions, consultations, and other activities.
• Develop occupationally based intervention plans based on students’ needs and evaluation results and provides those services through the IEP
• Synthesizes evaluation results into a comprehensive written report which reflects the students’ strengths and challenges to participation in the educational environment.
• Directs program development and guides evidence-based interventions.
• Evaluates the student’s educational needs and uses the findings to develop an IEP.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Administration.

General Expectations:
You are directly accountable to the Administrator. As a member of the Uplift Michigan Online School team, you are also expected to communicate and coordinate with the school office personnel and collaborate with your fellow teachers. As an Uplift Michigan Online School employee, you will be expected to:

• Conduct yourself in a professional manner – demonstrating competence in your area of responsibilities and extending respect and courtesy to coworkers. This position is one that demands an exceptional attendance routine, including consistently arriving early to set the tone for the day along with staying after to plan or support students.
• Adhere to all Uplift Michigan Online School employee policies as well as expectations as outlined in the handbooks. We will supply a hard copy to you upon request.
• Conduct yourself in accordance with the mission, vision, and goals of Uplift Michigan Online School, as well as the core values of Summit Management. This will foster mutually beneficial relationships and promote a spirit of excellence in our endeavors.

Evaluation:
All employees are evaluated based on the performance of their primary responsibilities and their adherence to the general expectations outlined in the job descriptions. It is also expected that each employee does their part to maintain a spirit of team unity and cooperation. Each employee can expect to be observed and provided with immediate feedback frequently throughout the schoolyear with a year-end evaluation.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
There are no supervisory responsibilities with this position.

Competencies:

• Leadership.
• Time management.
• Positive communication skills; able to relate to students, parents, and staff.
• Behavior modification skills.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Classroom management.
• Word, Excel, Power point, Email skills
• Positive reinforcement skills.
• Punctuality, exemplary attendance.
• Knowledge of and ability to follow federal and state safety regulations.
• Ability to work as a team.
• Understanding and ability to inc.orporate student learning styles.
• Mastery of assigned subject of instruction.

Work Environment:
This job operates in a professional home office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Schedule:
This role requires work between 8am and 4pm, Monday through Friday and additional hours as needed. This is a full time, salary position that requires 40 hours plus, if necessary to complete required tasks. This is a remote position, but the hours are not flexible.

In person commitments are a requirement. These include:

• State testing
• Field trips
• Professional development
• Graduation

Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree, required. Master’s Degree preferred and must possess a valid State of Michigan license as an Occupational Therapist.

Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notic