Occupational Therapist

**Position Overview:** Occupational Therapists provide services to develop, enhance or restore functional skills of clients whose abilities to perform tasks of daily living are threatened or impaired by physical, cognitive, social\-emotional, and sensory impairments. Occupational Therapists at NAPA Center provide skillful intervention to infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents with a variety of diagnoses with a focus on improving the client’s development in the areas of fine and gross motor skills, play skills, social skills, and self\-care skills within the professional scope of practice. The role will require all therapists to work as part of a multi\-disciplinary team. **Responsibilities** * Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment with documentation of motor deficits, functional impairments, sensory impairments, and difficulties in motor skills primarily in the pediatric population. * Possess general knowledge of child development to assess and refer families to other disciplines when appropriate. * Assess a client’s physical condition using a variety of standardized tools and objective/observational measures and identify primary impairments to determine a plan for treatment. * Utilize multiple frames of reference to inform practice including but not limited to: neurodevelopmental, developmental biomechanical, sensory integration, motor learning, cognitive, and rehabilitation. * Create tailored treatment plans to address client’s limitations, taking into account their age, abilities, client and family goals, and other medical/physical factors. * Apply a range of therapy techniques to address presented conditions (including tailored exercises, passive and active stretching, basic level of gait analysis and training). * Patient/caregiver training in the use of assistive technology devices, mobility devices, orthotic or prosthetic devices. * Prescribe home exercise programs for patient/caregiver to promote carryover and continued progress in the commun