Senior Occupational Therapist Outpatient
Oxnard, CAJob$52.15–77.58/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Senior Occupational Therapist provides in-home occupational therapy under physician orders, evaluating home safety and patients’ functional needs and implementing individualized treatment to promote independence. The role includes identifying functional deficits, interpreting physician orders, communicating with the healthcare team, and collaborating on patient care. The position requires at least five years of clinical experience, specialty-area training, a California occupational therapist credential, and Basic Life Support/CPR.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Occupational Therapist, you will provide essential in-home occupational therapy services under physician's orders. Your role involves evaluating home safety, assessing functional needs, and implementing tailored treatment to promote independence.
Every day you will evaluate home safety, assess functional needs of physically disabled patients, then develop, plan, and implement individualized occupational therapy treatment procedures.
To be successful, you will demonstrate strong assessment, treatment planning, and implementation skills for in-home care. Excellent communication for patient education and a commitment to promoting independence and safety are essential.
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Identifies and reports patient abuse and neglect i.e.: physical assault, domestic abuse and neglect of elders and children.
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Conducts annual performance reviews as assigned by Therapy Manager/Supervisor and works to assist employees in improving job performance.
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Accurately identifies patient's functional deficits/dysfunction through interview, skilled observation and testing to evaluate the performance areas of activities of daily living, work and productive activities and play or leisure activities, as well as the performance components of sensorimotor skills, cognitive integration and psychosocial skills.
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Accurately interprets the physician's order.
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Communicates regularly with other members of the healthcare team regarding goals, progress and rehab potential.
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Works as a collaborative member of the treatment team.
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Attends any necessary and appropriate patient care meetings such as mini rounds, rehab weekly conference, discharge meetings.
Job Requirements
Required
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4-6 years Minimum of five (5) years clinical experience
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Evidence of extensive training in a given specialty area.
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Specialty areas may include but not be limited to: neuro rehabilitation, orthopedics, pediatrics, hand rehabilitation, pain management and work hardening
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Occupational Therapist: CA, upon hire and
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Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1912, Dignity Health - St. John’s Regional Medical Center is a 265-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Oxnard, California. Serving over 85,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including emergency, heart, orthopedic, and cancer care. Additionally, St. John’s Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and was named one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
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Pay Range
$52.15 - $77.58 /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$52.15–77.58/hr
- California median$59–70/hr255 hourly ranges
- US median$46–58/hr1,903 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $64.86/hr, is close to the California median midpoint ($64/hr) — in the middle half 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
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Occupational Therapist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 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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