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Occupational Therapist I - REX OT

UNC Health Care

Multiple U.S. locationsFull-time$35.87–51.57/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$35.87–51.57/hr
Location
Multiple U.S. locations
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

North Carolina Occupational Therapist License, requiredBLS Certification, required

Job overview

The Occupational Therapist I provides evidence-based evaluation, treatment interventions, and education to patients and caregivers with varied diagnoses, disabilities, and impairments. The clinician supports patient goals through assessment, care planning, and communication, and mentors assistive personnel. The role also includes student and staff instruction, clinical program coordination, and participation in departmental improvement, education, and community outreach.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Effective Communication, requiredInterprofessional Skills, requiredPhysical Stamina, requiredRepetitive Movements, requiredProblem-Solving, required

Qualifications

Occupational Therapy Program, requiredNorth Carolina Occupational Therapist License, requiredBLS Certification, required

Full job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary:

The Occupational Therapist I provides evidence-based evaluation, treatment interventions, and educational instruction to patients and caregivers with various diagnoses, disabilities, and impairments affecting client factors (body function and structures), behavior patterns/roles/habits, and occupational performance. The clinician provides student shadowing, clinical instruction, and participates in departmental and community continuing education and outreach.

Responsibilities:

  1. Completes occupational therapy documentation, billing, and statistics per team guidelines. Manage daily caseload with efficiency and efficacy. Meets productivity standards per team guidelines.

  2. Administers assessment tools or instruments to assist in establishing a plan of care and subsequent modifications and manages resources to accomplish patient goals; Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.

  3. Mentors assistive personnel and delegates responsibilities as per licensing board guidelines.

  4. Provides clinical precepting and teaching for students and/or staff under the guidance of the clinical specialist or other subject matter experts; Provides regular feedback, coaching and mentoring. Evaluates the learner's performance.

  5. Assists in the planning and coordinating of clinical programs in collaboration with the clinical specialist or manager. Participates in continuous improvement in clinical services by attending and participating in departmental meetings and in-services.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements:

  • Graduation from an accredited Occupational Therapy program.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

  • Licensed as an Occupational Therapist in the state of North Carolina.

  • BLS within 3 months of hire date.

Professional Experience Requirements:

  • No prior experience required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

  • Exhibits effective communication and interprofessional skills; requires physical stamina and repetitive movements, including, but not limited to, sitting, standing, kneeling, walking, and squatting during patient interventions while supporting one's weight; can engage in high-level problem-solving to ensure patient safety during mobilization.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: REX OT

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $35.87 - $51.57 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

How this job compares

Set against the 4,959 open Occupational Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$35.87–51.57/hr
  • North Carolina median$39–53/hr72 hourly ranges
  • US median$47–58/hr1,893 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $43.72/hr, is 8% below the North Carolina median midpoint ($48/hr) — in the middle half of Occupational Therapist hourly ranges in North Carolina.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 151 open Occupational Therapist jobs in North Carolina and 4,959 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in North Carolina
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 (1,330 postings).
Education
1,858 of the 4,959 open Occupational Therapist jobs (37%) 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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