Occupational Therapist – 6-month parental leave coverage from approximately May 5, 2025 - November 7, 2025

Milestones Day School (located in Waltham, MA) has provided state-of-the-art, evidence-based, comprehensive, educational, and therapeutic programming for students with autism and mental health challenges for the past 30 years. Just bring your enthusiasm and join our multidisciplinary team. We are seeking an experienced occupational therapist to join our OT department (5 OTs) to work collaboratively on our team for students and help improve the quality of their lives by teaching skill development. The OT provides therapeutic curricula and intervention for students, works to increase sensory processing and regulation, motor skills, and community-based outings.

Specific responsibilities for OT include:

• Participating in weekly group supervision meetings
• Providing evaluations to elementary and middle school students
• Writing reports & effectively presenting information, test results, diagnoses, & recommendations at IEP meetings
• Provide individual & small group therapy (in collaboration with the speech department)
• Create sensory profiles and intervention plans
• Use both in-class and sensory room interventions to teach awareness & regulation
• Along with our other 22 clinicians who share this responsibility, process with students who are upset or dysregulated
• Write current OT-related progress notes, IEP goals and benchmarks for about 15 students
• Work collaboratively on a multidisciplinary team (OT, Speech, Psychologist, and BCBAs)

Requirements:

• Master’s of Occupational Therapy
• OT/R national licensure
• Licensed in the state of Massachusetts as an occupational therapist
• Knowledge and experience with a variety of assessment instruments, including administration, scoring, and interpretation
• Knowledge and experience with students who have autism spectrum disorders and various mental health challenges (e.g., anxiety, OCD, DMDD, Tourette’s, etc.)
• Excellent critical thinking, written, and verbal skills

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision Insurance
• Approximately 7 weeks of vacation in a full school year (approximately 6 weeks when school is not in session and 5 days of your choice)
• Paid time off
• 401k with discretionary company match
• Pet Insurance
• 20% off on-campus tuition and 10% off online tuition at Regis College and discount at Cambridge College
• Paid professional development
• Various discounts at local retailers and various entertainment venues that Milestones partners with