Join our family-focused, energetic, friendly team at Seattle Therapy Network! We are seeking a passionate, creative, and team-oriented Director of Occupational Therapy. The Director of OT works within Seattle Therapy Network’s therapy programs and its teams of therapists who provide a range of assessments/evaluations and clinical services for children, adolescents, and young adults. The Director of OT provides leadership to our inter-disciplinary team, maintains and improves systems, ensures the quality of programming: including compliance with clinical-based issues, and is responsible for implementation of growth plans and strategies.

If you love working with children, teens, and families and helping empower them, we want to hear from you! Seattle Therapy Network is a multi-disciplinary clinic focused on empowering families and supporting neurodivergent individuals across the lifespan. We fully believe in the power of occupations, especially those of play and creating connections with others. Our team of occupational therapists enjoy exploring their clinical interests, mentorship, and clinical collaboration. Our unique facility focuses on creating an environment that kids and their family want to be in, one that friendships and connections can be organically created, kids can be leaders and learners, and sharing and playing together occurs in every hour.

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Essential Functions

• In collaboration with the Director of Operations, plans, coordinates, leads, and evaluates clinic and community-based therapy services.

• Acts as a liaison between Therapy Departments, administrative staff, the community, representing the department at professional meetings. Including planning and leading regular meetings with therapy and administrative team focused on the clinic’s growth and continuing education needs.

• Responsible for coordination with appropriate departments and committees, development of systems, policies, and guidelines.

• Directs the implementation of departmental goals and objectives, including creating opportunities for emerging areas of practice.

• Understands and applies local, state and federal regulatory guidelines to ensure compliance with organization policies and procedures.

• Understands and educates the organization in areas of occupational therapy practice related to billing private and public health options and documentation of those services.

• Maintains a staff of sufficient number and skillset to effectively provide quality care for patients.

• Trains new personnel, mentors and helps develop new hires.

• Supports staff occupational therapists growth within the organization through employee reviews, direct mentorship, and the organization's clinical training program. Provides the team with systematic opportunities for development and professional growth.

• Ensures completion of quality documentation, enforcing state and private insurance regulations and requirements.

• Ensures compliance with telehealth policies at organization, state, and national levels.

• Handles all clinical concerns/complaints from clients and therapists.

• Enforces OSHA standards in the workplace.

• Develops and maintains relations/partnerships with referral sources (agencies, universities, physicians, patients, and co-workers).

• Participates in leadership meetings.

• Reviews and reports clinical metrics to monitor clinic health and growth.

• Provides direct occupational therapy to patients per state licensure standards and organizational roles.

• Promotes a physically, emotionally, and socially safe and clean environment for team members and patients of all ages.

• Coordinates team meeting to improve communication and foster teamwork.

• Works on-call and irregular hours.

• Assists with office/clinic housekeeping and keeping personal area clean and tidy.

• Other duties as assigned.

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Seattle Therapy Network (STN) welcomes families and individuals of any race, color, nationality, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, religion, sexual orientation, family make-up or circumstances, to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities at STN. STN does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, nationality, gender, ethnic and cultural background, religion, sexual orientation, family make-up or circumstances in the administration of any programs or employment.

Job Type: Full-time