Occupational Therapist (SOCOM, Camp Lejeune, NC)

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Occupational Therapist (SOCOM, Camp Lejeune, NC)

THIS POSITION OFFERS RELOCATION. 

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!  

KBR is a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers, and dreamers; but we all share one goal: to improve the world responsibly and safely.  We maintain a highly qualified workforce to help care for service people and astronauts across the world.  We attract the best minds because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness, and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services. 

We are seeking a stellar Special Operations Occupational Therapist who will provide evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal conditions. They are licensed independent practitioners and credentialed as direct care providers in specific military HP settings. At KBR we maintain a highly qualified workforce to help care for service people and astronauts – Could this be you? 

Focused on enabling individuals to perform the meaningful activities (“occupations”) required for daily life, work, and mission execution. OTs evaluate physical, cognitive, emotional, and environmental factors that influence performance and develop targeted interventions to restore, sustain, and enhance functional capability. The profession integrates medical knowledge, behavioral science, neurorehabilitation principles, and task analysis to improve performance outcomes. The Cognitive Performance OT applies occupational analysis to mission demands, identifies cognitive barriers impacting readiness, and implements evidence-based interventions to improve attention regulation, working memory, executive control, reaction time, stress resilience, and cognitive recovery.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive cognitive performance evaluations using standardized assessment tools and validated neurocognitive testing platforms.
• Perform occupational analysis to identify performance barriers related to mission tasks.
• Identify cognitive risk factors impacting readiness (sleep disruption, operational fatigue, stress load, mild TBI history, etc.).
• Develop individualized cognitive performance plans targeting executive functioning, attention control, stress regulation, mental agility, and recovery strategies.
• Deliver group-based cognitive training and performance workshops.
• Implement cognitive rehabilitation protocols for operators returning from injury, illness, or cognitive performance degradation.
• Provide in-training environment coaching to enhance real-time cognitive performance during operational tasks.
• Design and execute cognitive skills development programs aligned with SOF mission demands.
• Educate service members on cognitive resilience, fatigue mitigation, workload management, and recovery best practices.
• Develop proactive programming to prevent cognitive decline and performance loss.
• Collaborate with the Human Performance team (psychology, strength and conditioning, medical, nutrition, chaplain, and leadership) to synchronize individualized and group performance plans.
• Participate in interdisciplinary case conferences, performance reviews, and care coordination meetings as required.
• Advise leadership on aggregate cognitive readiness trends, risk factors, and mitigation strategies while ensuring compliance with privacy, confidentiality, and applicable DoD regulations.
• Collaborate with Cognitive Performance Professionals to ensure integrated planning, implementation, and evaluation of cognitive optimization, rehabilitation, and resilience programming across the performance continuum.
• Serve as the subject matter expert in occupational analysis and functional cognition, evaluate the interaction between cognitive capacity, mission-essential task demands, environmental stressors, and operational requirements to ensure interventions are directly aligned to SOF
• performance outcomes.
• Translate cognitive assessment findings into mission-relevant performance applications; identify task-person-environmental mismatches contributing to performance degradation; and develop structured return-to-performance pathways aligned with operational benchmarks.
• Provide services in garrison and operational training settings as required.
• As a credentialed, licensed provider, the primary role is care for the purpose of mitigation, treatment, management, and preservation of the cognitive, physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being of Service Members and their families, which includes the documentation of those services offered in the HP Enterprise-wide platforms (i.e., HPDMS, Electronic Health Record, etc.) as directed by the USSOCOM Direc