Occupational Therapist wanted for Academic Fieldwork Coordinator for OTA program

Company Description

As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

Our programs are growing! We are looking for an OT to join our team of passionate instructors to guide, teach and support the next generation of students. 

The Brookline College campus in Tucson is looking for a dynamic and energetic professional to serve as the Academic Fieldwork Coordinator for the Occupational Therapy Assistant program. The Fieldwork Coordinator role is a faculty appointment responsible for managing the fieldwork requirements and teaching for the occupational therapy assistant program. The role is on-ground at the Tucson campus. 

This is a unique program that is structured with all instruction hapening on Fridays remotely and on campus every 3 weeks for in person lab instruction.

Job Description

ACOTE-SPECIFIC FIELDWORK ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Ensure fieldwork program reflects the sequence and scope of content in the curriculum design and in collaboration with faculty such that fieldwork experiences in traditional, nontraditional, and emerging practice settings strengthen ties between didactic and fieldwork education.
• Document the criteria and process for selecting fieldwork sites; include memoranda of understanding, complying with all site requirements, maintaining site objectives, site data. Communicate information to students prior to the start of the fieldwork experience.
• Document academic and fieldwork educators agree on established fieldwork objectives prior to start of the fieldwork experience; communicate with the student and fieldwork educators about progress and performance throughout the experience.
• Ensure fieldwork objectives for all experiences include a psychosocial objective.
• Ensure the ratio of fieldwork educators-to-students enables proper supervision to provide protection of consumers, opportunities for appropriate role modeling of occupational therapy practice, and ability to provide frequent assessment of student progress in achieving stated fieldwork objectives.
• Ensure fieldwork agreements are sufficient in scope and number to allow completion of graduation requirements in a timely manner.
• Ensure that personnel who supervise students are informed of the curriculum and fieldwork program design and affirm their ability to support the fieldwork experience; must occur prior to the onset of the fieldwork experience.
• Ensure student supervisor is prepared to serve as a fieldwork educator prior to the fieldwork experience.
• Ensure that Level II fieldwork supervision is direct and then decreases to less direct supervision as appropriate for the setting, the severity of the client’s condition, and the ability of the student to support progression toward entry-level competence.
• Document and verify that the student is supervised by a currently licensed or otherwise regulated occupational therapist who has a minimum of 1-year full time of practice experience prior to the onset of Level II fieldwork.
• Document a mechanism for evaluating the effectiveness of supervision and for providing resources for enhanced supervision.
• Maintain record of formal evaluation of student performance on Level II Fieldwork using the AOTA Fieldwork Performance Evaluation for the Occupational Therapy Assistant Student.

FIELDWORK COURSE MANAGEMENT

• KPI: Maintain 35% Fieldwork-to-Hire
• Partner with career services staff to identify fieldwork opportunities that may lead to employment.
• Maintain contact with hiring managers to promote fieldwork-to-hire opportunities.
• Ensure the program has evidence of a valid memoranda of understanding in effect and signed by both parties from the onset to the conclusion of the Level I fieldwork and the Level II fieldwork if it involves an entity outside of Unitek.
• Manage affiliation agreement procurement process to support the fieldwork course requirement
• Monitor fieldwork course attendance to ensure that all fieldwork assignments are completed in accordance with college policies
• Maintain a schedule of fieldwork site visits (online/remote or in-person) to review the quality of student