Occupational Therapist
Redwood City, CAJob$57.7–85.83/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Occupational Therapist helps patients regain independence and safely perform daily activities. The role assesses patients, develops and adjusts treatment plans, conducts evaluations and re-evaluations, collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, documents care, and provides motivating treatment to a high volume of patients. New graduates will be considered. One year of experience in a physical disabilities setting, acute care, or acute rehabilitation is preferred.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As an Occupational Therapist, you will help patients regain independence and quality of life so they can safely perform daily activities.
Every day you will assess diverse patients (orthopedic, neurological, sensory, cancer recovery, etc.), develop treatment plans, and conduct evaluations/re-evaluations. You will be expected to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, document thoroughly, and provide positive, motivating care to a high volume of patients.
To be successful in this role, you must be flexible, adaptable, exceptionally organized, and a personable, motivating team player.
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Appropriately evaluates patients in: range of motion; edema; muscle strength and endurance; sensation, reflexes, neurovascular status; soft tissue, bony palpation, passive joint mobilization; body mechanics, work efficiency, aerobic cap; activities of daily living; coordination; pain.
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Develops and implements appropriate treatments programs: orients patient and family to his/her individual treatment program; develops realistic ADL, work and leisure goals with patient; provides goal directed purposeful activities; progresses patient appropriately on all activities; reevaluates, sets new goals, and adjusts treatment programs accordingly; prepares patient for discharge; provides home programs.
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Elicits and records information about patients medical history.
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Produces timely documentation within departmental guidelines.
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Performs worksite visits when necessary to address job modifications.
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Analyzes reports and findings of tests and of examination, and diagnoses condition.
Job Requirements
Required
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Graduate of an accredited school of Occupational Therapy, upon hire and
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New grads will be considered.
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Graduate of an accredited school of Occupational Therapy, upon hire and
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Occupational Therapist: CA, upon hire and
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Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
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Occupational Therapist: CA, upon hire and
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Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
Preferred
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One year of experience preferred as an O.T.R. in a physical disabilities setting, in acute care or acute rehabilitation. and
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Prefer affiliation with AOTA. Prefer experience with rehab therapy either through educational affiliations or prior work experience. and
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One year of experience preferred as an O.T.R. in a physical disabilities setting, in acute care or acute rehabilitation. and
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experience with rehab therapy either through educational affiliations or prior work experience.
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1950, Dignity Health - Sequoia Hospital is a 208-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Redwood City, California. Serving over 50,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, stroke care, and a birthing center. Additionally, Sequoia Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and recently was awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care. It was recently named a Leapfrog 2025 Top General Hospital.
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Pay Range
$57.70 - $85.83 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,021 open Occupational Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$57.7–85.83/hr
- California median$59–70/hr255 hourly ranges
- US median$46–58/hr1,903 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $71.77/hr, is 12% above the California median midpoint ($64/hr) — in the top quarter of Occupational Therapist hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 468 open Occupational Therapist jobs in California and 5,021 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- FeldCare Connects74 open
- Genesis Healthcare72 open
- Sutter Health53 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 (1,390 postings).
- Education
- 1,895 of the 5,021 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 6, 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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