Occupational Therapy Student Internship
About this Role
We are seeking an experienced, energetic, and passionate occupational therapy graduate student to gain clinical skills with our pediatric clients. We love providing families with the tools they need to not only survive, but thrive in their survival of a pediatric cancer diagnosis.
Key Responsibilities
- Educate and publicize AHF’s mission and values to the community
- Verbalize and carry out OT’s distinct value when working with families and team members
- Collaborate with OTR to set and meet individual learning goals
- Reflect upon clinical practice abilities
- Work with other team members as part of an interprofessional treatment plan
- Use time effectively as represented on Google Calendar
- With supervision of an OTR:
- Develop an OT treatment plan through evaluation, use of clinical knowledge, judgment, and therapeutic skills
- Creatively engage clients in individualized client-led therapeutic tasks based upon their interests and needs
- Facilitate the development of cognitive, fine motor, sensory processing, social, emotional, behavior skills through evidence-based techniques
- Evaluate client’s strengths/weaknesses through clinical observation, standardized and informal assessment, teacher/parent report, and medical history in order to develop individualized treatment, goals, and plan of care
- Develop their individual role as a dynamic component of therapeutic group interventions including but not limited to family events, day camps, and day programming
- For capstone students, assess current programming at AHF and plan/implement program modifications or development
Requirements
- Current Enrollment in Occupational Therapy Graduate-Level Program
- Interest and experience working with a variety of age groups including toddlers, preschoolers, and/or school-age populations through young adult
- Knowledge of Microsoft office and Google platform apps and working with databases
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Comfortable working with a diverse population
