
Occupational Therapist Fellow
Aurora, COFull-time$38.72–58.08/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Occupational Therapist Fellow evaluates patients and plans and implements occupational therapy programs based on assessment and psychological sensitivity. The fellow provides care for a residency-specific patient population, communicates findings and treatment, and completes mentorship, testing, didactic, laboratory, observation, and education requirements. The role is onsite at UCHealth Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion in Aurora, Colorado, and includes residency requirements.
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Description
Occupational Therapist Fellow
Location: UCHealth Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion, Aurora CO
Department: OT OP AOP
Work Schedule: Full Time, 64.00 hours per pay period (2 weeks)
Shift: Days
Pay: $38.72 - $58.08 / hour. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
This position is an onsite role and does not offer a hybrid or remote option.
Summary:
Evaluates patients and plans. Implements an effective occupational therapy program based on assessment and psychological sensitivity. Maintains professional expertise and assumes responsibility for professional growth. Completes residency requirements.
Responsibilities:
Performs occupational therapy care for the residency-specific patient population.
Communicates findings and treatment, including patients, families, care managers, providers, compliance, and payer sources.
Completes required residency mentorship hours and assignments with supervising clinician(s).
Completes written and live residency testing requirements, didactic learning sessions, classes, lab work, clinical observation and education requirements.
Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and take appropriate action.
Requirements:
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Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy. Preferred: Master's or Doctorate in Occupational Therapy.
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CO State licensure as an Occupational Therapist.
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Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider. BLS through the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross with card in-hand before start date. BLS card must be good through sixty days of hire. All renewals must be issued by the American Heart Association.
Employees are our number one asset.
UCHealth promotes a culture that invests in professional success and personal well-being through a comprehensive total rewards program. *
Recognition
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Performance bonus: UCHealth offers a 3-Year Incentive Bonus to recognize employee contributions to our success in quality, patient experience, organizational growth, financial goals and tenure. The bonus accumulates annually each October and is paid out in October during the third year of employment.
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Performance-based pay increase: The Annual Merit Pay Increase recognizes work performance that meets or consistently exceeds performance standards documented through UCHealth's established evaluation process and accounts for increased experience, skills and cost of living.
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Market reviews: All UCHealth positions are reviewed annually to ensure UCHealth base pay aligns with market standards. Base pay rates are adjusted as needed to stay market competitive.
Health and well-being
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Medical, dental and vision coverage.
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Access to 24/7 mental health and well-being support for employees and dependents.
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Discounted gym memberships and fitness resources.
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Free Care.com membership.
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Voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal plan, identity theft protection, pet insurance, auto and home insurance, and employee discount programs.
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Time away from work: Paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence.
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Employer-provided basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options.
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Employer-provided short-term disability and long-term disability with a buy-up coverage option.
Retirement and savings
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403(b) plan with employer matching contribution.
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Additional 457(b) plan may be available.
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Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent day care; health savings account available when enrolled in high-deductible (HD) medical plan.
Education and career growth
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UCHealth provides access to academic degrees and certificate programs to promote professional and personal growth.
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Up to 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees.
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Other programs may qualify for up to $10,000/year pre-paid by UCHealth or up to $5,250/year in the form of tuition reimbursement.
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Access to LinkedIn Learning, which offers thousands of virtual courses and seminars, and internal professional development opportunities.
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Employees have access to free assistance navigating the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and submitting their federal student loans for forgiveness.
*Eligibility for some programs is based on an employee's scheduled work hours.
We improve lives. In big ways through learning, healing, and discovery. In small, personal ways through human connection. But in all ways, we improve lives.
UCHealth always welcomes talent. This position will be open for a minimum of three days and until a top applicant is identified.
UCHealth recognizes and appreciates the rich array of talents and perspectives that equal employment and diversity can offer our institution. As an equal opportunity employer, UCHealth is committed to making all employment decisions based on valid requirements. No applicant shall be discriminated against in any terms, conditions or privileges of employment or otherwise be discriminated against because of the individual's race, color, national origin, language, culture, ethnicity, age, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, socioeconomic status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state, or local law. UCHealth does not discriminate against any qualified applicant with a disability as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act and will make reasonable accommodations, when they do not impose an undue hardship on the organization.
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How this job compares
Set against the 4,930 open Occupational Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$38.72–58.08/hr
- Colorado median$41–65/hr101 hourly ranges
- US median$47–58/hr1,890 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $48.40/hr, is 6% below the Colorado median midpoint ($52/hr) — in the middle half of Occupational Therapist hourly ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 146 open Occupational Therapist jobs in Colorado and 4,930 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- HCA Healthcare17 open
- AdventHealth16 open
- UCHealth (this employer)13 open
- Experience
- Occupational Therapist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,324 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,854 of the 4,930 open Occupational Therapist jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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