Occupational Therapist OT - Jacksonville FL - Full Time W2

United States·JacksonvilleFull-Timemid

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Thrive Therapies Group is a pediatric healthcare organization that delivers care exclusively in schools because school is where clinical care becomes transformative for kids with disabilities.

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Thrive Therapies Group is a pediatric healthcare organization that delivers care exclusively in schools because school is where clinical care becomes transformative for kids with disabilities. Where therapy turns into learning, friendships, and belonging. Built by providers, for providers.

As a School-Based Occupational Therapist you assess and treat students K-12 with physical, developmental, sensory, and learning challenges that impact educational function and independence. You design individualized interventions targeting fine motor skills, sensory processing, self-care routines, and learning environment modifications to support academic engagement and social participation

Conduct comprehensive OT evaluations including fine and gross motor assessment, sensory processing screening, self-care functional capacity, and learning readiness

Develop and implement individualized IEP goals focused on school function: handwriting, self-feeding, self-care routines, classroom participation, and independence

Deliver direct and consultative occupational therapy services including fine motor skill development, sensory integration activities, and environmental modifications

Design classroom-wide and school-wide sensory breaks, movement activities, and accommodations to support learning and self-regulation

Collaborate with special education, physical therapists, and classroom teachers on positioning, adaptive equipment, and accessibility solutions

Assess and recommend adaptive equipment, assistive technology, and learning environment modifications Participate in IEP and ARD meetings and contribute to transition planning for secondary students

Clear background check and proof of immunization status per district requirements

2 or more years of school-based OT experience

New graduates welcome with structured mentorship

Training in sensory integration and processing

Ayres Sensory Integration preferred

Experience with adaptive equipment, assistive technology, and accessibility assessment

Experience with autism spectrum disorder and complex physical disabilities

Bilingual capability is a meaningful plus

100% of our clinicians chose to return for the 26-27 school year. That does not happen by accident.

Our founder was once one of those kids whose needs went unidentified until third grade. School-based clinicians changed her life. She built Thrive to bring that care forward.