Occupational Therapist

Class

Title:

Occupational Therapist

Reports to: Director of Special Education/Pupil Personnel Services

South San Francisco Unified School District

The South San Francisco Unified School District (SSFUSD) community includes 15 schools supporting 8,000 students in Daly City, San Bruno, and South San Francisco.

Our mission is that in partnership with our community, SSFUSD will provide exceptional instruction, engaging experiences, and equitable and accessible opportunities and resources to further support our diverse student body so that students are equipped to learn, thrive, navigate their future with purpose, and impact their community.

In February 2024, the School Board for SSFUSD adopted our new Vision and Five-Year Strategic Plan. Educators are at the heart of our priorities - exceptional instruction, engaged students, purposeful partnerships, empowered educators, and equity-centered systems.

SSFUSD is seeking a dynamic, equity-focused, and inclusive Occupational Therapist to join our school community. SSFUSD refuses to accept that the educational outcomes of students in our district are overwhelmingly predictable based on students’ race, socioeconomics, ethnicity or learning differences. We remain committed to working each day to examine systemic, institutional, and individual biases in order to dismantle systems of inequities that will enable all students to thrive.

Under the direction of the Director of Special Education/Pupil Personnel Services, the Occupational Therapist will provide educationally related occupational therapy assessments, services, as well as consultation to students with various disabilities in accordance with the student’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

The Occupational Therapist collaborates as a member of the educational team and is expected to handle a variety of assignments that relate to individual students’ specialized needs and related disabilities. They are expected to work independently with the students on a one-to-one basis, or in a group or classroom setting. The occupational therapist has a broad scope of evaluative tasks in the development, planning and assessment of therapy programs.

As an Occupational Therapist in SSFUSD, responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Assessing students’ abilities and performance in activities that are related to the curriculum and applicable to activities of daily living.
• Administering complete educationally related assessments and reassessment including the interpretation of the developmental history, classroom or playground observations, records review, standardized testing, and non-standardized testing in the areas of suspected disability; interpreting results, providing a comprehensive written report, presenting findings, and offering appropriate intervention strategies at the IEP meeting.
• Identifying and documenting students’ educational/developmental/functional needs with the IEP team.
• Developing, coordinating and implementing occupational therapy intervention plans that support the IEP goals and objectives; providing appropriate training to parents to help support growth on goals.
• Assisting with the development of students’ transition plans, programs and goals.
• Recording assessments, actions taken and recommendations made regarding areas of service as required by law, board policies, administrative regulations and the Special Education Department.
• Scheduling, planning and providing occupational therapy programs for students with physical limitations, orthopedic impairments and/or other areas of concern for the purpose of aiding the students’ physical rehabilitation in accordance with IEP goals.
• Recommending, designing and creating adaptive equipment.
• Training and serving as a consultant to program staff in areas such as sensory motor, sensory stimulation and body awareness, fine motor and gross motor skills and other areas within the therapist’s area of expertise.
• Demonstrating appropriate activities for students to program staff.
• Participating effectively in the multidisciplinary IEP team process and working effectively with the instructional team, parents and community members,…