Occupational Therapist

Overview

Brooklyn Center Community Schools is seeking a skilled, passionate Occupational Therapist to join our team. Brooklyn Center Community Schools is committed to a justice-centered school community that fuels each student s unique genius. We aim to uphold values that foster diversity, inclusion, and high expectations for all students and staff.

• Position Type:
  Special Services
• Date Posted: 11/12/2025
• Location:
  
  Brooklyn Center Elementary School (High-Needs School)
• Date Available:
  
  December 2025
• Closing Date: 11/27/2025

• We stand front and center
• We demonstrate passion, pride, and perseverance
• We acknowledge and disrupt oppressive systems
• Our diversity fuels learning
• We fiercely lead in justice-centered education

This position is accountable for providing occupational therapy services that include improving, developing, or restoring skills that will enable students to move toward independent functioning regarding physical, mental, emotional, and educational goals. Supports students in their least restrictive educational setting. Supports staff in evaluation, program planning, and environmental issues.

Collaborative with all stakeholder groups; demonstrates a growth mindset with students; willingness to learn and advance research-based practice for self and other staff; focus on creating equitable access and environments; experience implementing culturally responsive practices; evidence of data-driven decision making; evidence of building strong relationships and communication with families; ability to differentiate for all learners; professional and collegial.

• Creates welcoming and safe environments for students, families and staff while building strong, trusting relationships
• Screens, evaluates, and monitors students with disabilities or physical or mental impairments for the purpose of providing educational programs, therapeutic intervention, and transition and exit planning and enhancing their ability to perform activities of daily living or participate in desired occupations
• Collaborates with staff to ensure team understanding of student strengths and needs, as well as student outcomes
• Evaluates the student s ability and formulates the student s occupational profile, providing written reports that reflect strengths and barriers to student participation in the general educational environment; guides evidence-based intervention
• Participates in the development of initial and reevaluations for students
• Participates in the development of Individualized Education Programs
• Provides targeted, evidence-based therapeutic intervention to facilitate student participation and performance within the school environment
• Assesses the need for assistive technology and equipment and makes recommendations for its use at school to help students function as independently as possible
• Documents occupational therapy services and maintains records in accordance with school district policies, as well as state and federal laws and regulations
• Plans, coordinates, and conducts continuing education for school staff, parents, and students
• Continues to acquire professional knowledge and learn of current developments in the educational field by attending seminars, workshops, or professional meetings, conducting research, and by maintaining professional relationships
• Attends meetings and training sessions as required
• Other duties as assigned

• Knowledge and use of occupational therapy theories, models of practice, principles, and evidence-based practice to guide intervention decisions
• Knowledge of appropriate state and federal laws and regulations
• Thorough knowledge of special education principles, practices, and procedures
• Knowledge of human development throughout the lifespan and its integration with the student s developmental status
• Knowledge of the influence of disabilities, socio-cultural and socioeconomic factors on student s ability to participate in occupations
• Master s Degree (Education)
• Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health as an Occupational Therapist; NBCOT certification

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